Timotheos
Illustration — Roman marble of Leda and the Swan (Prado) • Illustration — Leda and the Swan (Yale University Art Gallery) Timotheus (born in Epidaurus; died in Epidaurus, c. 340 BC) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Scopas of Paros, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus between 353 and 350 BC. He was apparently the leading sculptor at the Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, c. To him is attributed 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 is said to be "after Timotheus".
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Timotheos
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- Born
- 400 · Epidaurus.
- Died
- 340 · Epidaurus.
- Nationality
- Peloponnesian League
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Known for
- Nike of Epidauros
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Illustration — Roman marble of Leda and the Swan (Prado) • Illustration — Leda and the Swan (Yale University Art Gallery) Timotheus (born in Epidaurus; died in Epidaurus, c. 340 BC) was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Scopas of Paros, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus between 353 and 350 BC. He was apparently the leading sculptor at the Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, c. To him is attributed 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 is said to be "after Timotheus".
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The theme must have been popular, judging by the more than two dozen Roman marble copies that survive. 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.
The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. Works named in the authority record are Nike of Epidauros. Work by Timotheos is recorded in the collections of J. Paul Getty Museum and National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Plaster cast of a statue of Hygeia. Its intact base bears traces of a snake. The statue is attributed to the Classical sculptor Timotheos, 380-370 BC. Found in 1884 at the excavations at the Sanctuary of Asklepios. Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus, Inv. no: EAM 299. The original is in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (Room 22), Accession number 299.
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- 1.Pliny the Elder, Natural History 36.30-31.
- 2.26. 991.
- 3.The connection with Timotheus was first made by Franz Winter, (Mittheil. Arch. Athen. 1894:157-62 and pl. vi), on the basis of comparison of drapery of a Nereid or a Hygeia of Timotheus, just then being excavated at Epidaurus. (Adolf Michaelis, A Century of Archaeological Discoveries; 1908:313)
- 4.Inv. MC0302.
- 5.Richard Hamann, "Original und Kopie" Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 15 (1949, pp. 135-156) p 153.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Reiche, A. "Die copien der 'Leda von Timotheos'" Antike Plastik 17 (1978:21-55).
- Kunzl, E. and G. Horn, Die 'Hygeia' des Timotheos 1969.
- Schorb, B. Timotheos 1965.
- Brill's New Pauly, "Timotheus".
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