Timarete

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Detail of a miniature of Thamyris (Timarete) painting her picture of the goddess Diana, N. France,(Rouen) 15th century .

Timarete (Template:Langx) (or Thamyris, Tamaris, Thamar; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter.[1]

She was the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens.[1] According to Pliny the Elder, she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's art." At the time of Archelaus I of Macedon she was best known for a panel painting of the goddess Diana that was kept at Ephesus, a city that the goddess.[2] While it is no longer extant, it was kept at Ephesus for many years.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

She is one of the six female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147–148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, Irene, Calypso, Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias.[3]

Primary sources

  • Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia xxxv.35.59, 40.147.

Secondary sources

  • Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Thames and Hudson, London, 1990.
  • Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists: 1550–1950. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976.

Citations

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  3. J. Linderski. The Paintress Calypso and Other Painters in Pliny. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bd. 145 (2003), pp. 83–96

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