Timanthes

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Timanthes, of Cythnus or Sicyon, was a Greek painter of the 4th century BC.

The most celebrated of his works was a picture representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in which he finely depicted the emotions of those who took part in the sacrifice; however, despairing of rendering the grief of Agamemnon, he represented him as veiling his face.

A painting discovered at Pompeii, and now in the Museum at Naples, has been regarded as a copy or echo of this painting (Helbig, Wand gemalde Campaniens, No. 1304).

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