De Thamyri Pictrice · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Thamyri Pictrice
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: 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: Jakob Kallenberg (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut engraving
Identifier: mta:26234
Source Name: Ioannis Boccatii de Certaldo Insigne Opvs de Claris Mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1539 Apiarius; 1539 Apiarius
Image: mta_26234_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Fine Arts; Thamyris; Micon; Painting