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TIMANTHES
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TIMANTHES , of Cythnus or Sicyon, aSee also: Greek painter of the 4th century B.C
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The most celebrated of his See also: works was a picture representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in which he finely depicted the emotions of those who took See also: part in the sacrifice; but despairing of rendering the grief of See also: Agamemnon, he represented him as veiling his face
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A See also: painting discovered at See also: Pompeii, and now in the Museum at Naples, has been regarded as a copy or See also: echo of this painting (Helbig, Wandgemalde Campaniens, No
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1304)
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