Timarete
Timarete (
She was the daughter of the painter
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,
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
- ^ ISBN 1576070921.
- ISBN 978-0-674-01130-4.
- ^ J. Linderski. The Paintress Calypso and Other Painters in Pliny. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bd. 145 (2003), pp. 83–96
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