Timarete (
Greek: Τιμαρέτη) (or Thamyris, Tamaris, Thamar; 5th century BC), was an ancient
Greekpainter.[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.[citation needed]
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] They are mentioned later in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris.
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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abSalisbury, Joyce E. (2001). Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world ([Nachdr.] ed.). Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-CLIO.
ISBN1576070921.