Artists
- El Greco -Cretan painter, Italy, Spain
- Marco Basaiti -painter
- Antonio Vassilacchi - painter from Milos worked in Venice with Paolo Veronese
- Michael Damaskenos -Venice, Cretan painter
- Francisco Leontaritis -Italy, Bavaria: singer and composer
- Anna Notaras -Venice, first Greek typing press
- Thomas Flanginis -Venice, funded the establishment of the Flanginian Greek school for teachers
- Angelos Pitzamanos (1467–1535) Cretan painter Otranto, South Italy
- Emmanuel Tzanes -Venice, Cretan painter
- Theodore Poulakis -Venice, painter
- John Rhosos -Rome, Venice well-known scribe
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“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“Few artists can afford artistic temperament.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)