{{short description|Ancient Greek painter}} thumb|right|150px| Detail of a miniature of Thamyris (Timarete) painting her picture of the goddess Diana, N. France,(Rouen) 15th century . '''Timarete''' ({{langx|el|Τιμαρέτη}}) (or '''Thamyris''', '''Tamaris, Thamar'''; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter.<ref name="Salisbury 2001">{{cite book|last=Salisbury|first=Joyce E.|author-link= Joyce E. Salisbury |title=Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]|isbn=1576070921|edition=[Nachdr.]}}</ref>

She was the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens.<ref name="Salisbury 2001" /> 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 was associated with the goddess.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boccaccio |first1=Giovanni |author-link=Giovanni Boccaccio|title=Famous Women |translator-last1=Brown |translator-first1=Virginia|date=2003 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01130-4 |page=114 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Nj04ULC0s8C&q=tamaris}}</ref> While it is no longer extant, it was kept at Ephesus for many years.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

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.<ref>J. Linderski. The Paintress Calypso and Other Painters in Pliny. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Bd. 145 (2003), pp. 83–96</ref>

==Primary sources== *Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis historia'' xxxv.35.59, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D35%3Achapter%3D40 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.

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