Timarete
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Timarete or Thamyris was an ancient Greek painter. She is the daughter of the painter Micon. According to Pliny the Elder, she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's art." She was best known for a picture of the goddess of Diana that was kept at Ephesus. While it is no longer extant, it was kept at Ephesus for many years.
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- 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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