Timotheus (sculptor)

[1] He was apparently the leading sculptor at the Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, c. 380 BC.

[2] To him is attributed[3] a sculpture of Leda and the Swan in which the queen Leda of Sparta protected a swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums[4] is said to be "after Timotheus".

The theme must have been popular, judging by the more than two dozen Roman marble copies that survive.

[5] The most famous version has been that in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, purchased by Pope Clement XIV from the heirs of Cardinal Alessandro Albani.

A highly restored version is in the Museo del Prado, and an incomplete one is in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.