Timarete

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Goddess Diana hunting.
Goddess Diana hunting.

Timarete (or Thamyris, Tamaris) was an ancient Greek painter. She is the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens. 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 of Diana that was kept at Ephesus. Ephesus had a particular reverence for the goddess Diana. While it is no longer extant, it was kept at Ephesus for many years.

[edit] Primary sources

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

[edit] 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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