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Timanthes
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thumb|Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Antique fresco from Pompeii
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Kythnos
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of birth
- 0500-01-01
- date of death
- 0400-01-01
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- time period
- classical antiquity
- name
- Timanthes
- Commons category
- Timanthes of Cythnus
- name in native language
- Τιμάνϑης
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thumb|Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Antique fresco from Pompeii
Timanthes of Cythnus () was an ancient Greek painter of the fourth century BC. The most celebrated of his works was a picture representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in which he finely depicted the emotions of those who took part in the sacrifice; however, despairing of rendering the grief of Agamemnon, he represented him as veiling his face. Zeuxis, Timanthes and Parrhasius were painters who belonged to the Ionian School of painting. The Ionian School flourished during the 4th-century BCE.
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