Timarete
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.
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