# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cimon-of-cleonae
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:34:12.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cimon-of-cleonae"
name: "Cimon of Cleonae"
slug: "cimon-of-cleonae"
description: "Cimon of Cleonae was an early painter of ancient Greece. He was said to have introduced great improvements in drawing. He represented figures, according to Pliny, \"out of the straight\", and he developed ways of representing faces looking back, up, or down; he also made the joints of the body clear, emphasized veins, worked out folds and doublings in garments. Pliny also said Cimon of Cleonae's attention to detail and accuracy to life was so great, that he was famously able to dispense with what had always been the universal custom of affixing the name of generals to their portraits, since they were so readily recognizable. All these improvements may be traced in the drawing of early Greek red-figured vases."
tagline: "Ancient Greek painter"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/History_of_Ancient_painting_in_Hermitage_-_X_%2810%29.jpg/330px-History_of_Ancient_painting_in_Hermitage_-_X_%2810%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "-550"
deathDate: "-500"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.81
  momentum:             3.993095512082855
  historical:           5.469870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cim%C3%B3n_de_Cleone"
    title: "Cimón de Cleone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cim%C3%B3_de_Cleones"
    title: "Cimó de Cleones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimon_of_Cleonae"
    title: "Cimon of Cleonae"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cimone_di_Cleone"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimon_de_Cl%C3%A9ones"
    title: "Cimon de Cléones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimone_di_Cleone"
    title: "Cimone di Cleone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5120160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump