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Timarete

420 BC - 400 BC

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Timarete (Greek: Τιμαρέτη) (or Thamyris, Tamaris, Thamar; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter. She was 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 Diana that was kept at Ephesus, a city that the goddess. While it is no longer extant, it was kept at Ephesus for many years. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Timarete is the 1,045th most popular painter (up from 1,145th in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from Greece (up from 526th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Greek Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Timarete ranks 1,045 out of 2,023. Before her are Thomas de Keyser, Franz Pforr, Benjamin West, Toriyama Sekien, George Maciunas, and Jacques Blanchard. After her are Wolf Huber, Hans von Kulmbach, Abraham Janssens, Apollodorus, Jean Jouvenet, and Adriaen van de Venne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 420 BC, Timarete ranks 3. Before her are Isaeus, and Ateas.  Among people deceased in 400 BC, Timarete ranks 26. Before her are Philip of Opus, Antalcidas, Pythias, Axiothea of Phlius, Li Kui, and Lastheneia of Mantinea. After her are Metrodorus of Chios, Nausiphanes, Diphilus, Aeneas Tacticus, Cersobleptes, and Lagus.

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    Isaeus

    WRITER

    420 BC - 340 BC

    HPI: 62.10

    Rank: 1

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    Ateas

    POLITICIAN

    420 BC - 339 BC

    HPI: 61.12

    Rank: 2

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    Timarete

    PAINTER

    420 BC - 400 BC

    HPI: 60.98

    Rank: 3

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Timarete ranks 518 out of 1,024. Before her are Stelios Kazantzidis (1931), Archidamus V (-250), Ablabius (300), Callicratidas (-500), Efstathios Chorafas (1871), and Demophon of Athens (null). After her are Apollodorus (-500), Christodoulos of Athens (1939), Metrodorus of Chios (-500), George Averoff (1815), Mimis Domazos (1942), and Clearchus of Sparta (-401).

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Among PAINTERS In Greece

Among painters born in Greece, Timarete ranks 7. Before her are El Greco (1541), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), Jannis Kounellis (1936), Agatharchus (-500), and Achilles Painter (-470). After her are Apollodorus (-500), Douris (-600), Euphranor (-301), Pamphilus (-390), Yannis Tsarouchis (1910), and Nikiforos Lytras (1832).

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