Timanthes Cythnus

Career

A painting discovered at Pompeii, and now in the Museum at Naples, has been regarded as a copy or echo of this painting (Wolfgang Helbig, Wand gemalde Campaniens, Number 1304).

Works

• Other Work

  • 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.