Timarete

Timarete (Greek: Τιμαρέτη) (or Thamyris, Tamaris, Thamar; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter.^[1]

Detail of a miniature of Thamyris (Timarete) painting her picture of the goddess Diana, N. France,(Rouen) 15th century .

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]

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.