Timarete

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

[1] 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."

[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] They are mentioned later in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris.