De Thamiri pictrice · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Thamiri pictrice
Subject: Thamyris; Timarete; Important Women; Famous Women; Painters; Fine Arts
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: There are two women by the name of Thamyris that Boccaccio describes in his book. One was a fierce queen of Scythia who decapitated the head of her enemy. This engraving depicts Queen Thamyris of Scythia as she puts the decapitated head of her enemy into a bag. This engraving, however, is wrongly placed in the book as this engraving is meant to depict the other Thamyris. The Thamyris the engraving should have depicted was a painter from Greece (also known by the name Timarete). Thamyris was the daughter of a painter named Micon, and she grew up to be a renowned painter herself.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:26104
Language: lat
Source Name: De Claris Mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1473 Ulm; 1473 Ulm
Image: mta_26104_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Thamyris; Timarete; Important Women; Famous Women; Painters; Fine Arts