- Timotheos
Timotheos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BCE, one of the rivals and contemporaries of
Scopas ofParos , among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the Mausoleum ofMausolus atHalicarnassus between 353 and 350 BCE. [Pliny the Elder , "Natural History" 36.30-31.] He was apparently the leading sculptor at the temple ofAsklepios atEpidauros , ca. 380 BCE. To him is attributed [The connection with Timotheos 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 Timotheos, just at that time being excavated at Epidauros. (Adolf Michaelis, "A Century of Archaeological Discoveries" (1908:313)] a sculpture of "Leda and the Swan " in which the queen Leda ofSparta , protected the swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in theCapitoline Museums [Inv. MC0302.] is said to be "after Timotheos". The theme must have been popular, judging from more than two dozen Roman marble copies that survive. [Richard Hamann, "Original und Kopie" "Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft" 15 (1949, pp. 135-156) p 153.] The most famous version has been that in theCapitoline Museums , Rome, purchased by the pope from the heirs ofAlessandro Cardinal Albani The highly restored version in the illustration at right is in theMuseo del Prado , the incomplete one at left in the Yale Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut.Notes
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* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=7639 (Getty Museum) "Leda and the Swan"] Roman marble, first century CE, found in Rome, 1775 and bought by the second Earl of Shelburne, Lansdowne House, London. (Cornelius C. Vermeule, "Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain," "American Journal of Archaeology" 1955:132f).
* [http://en.museicapitolini.org/percorsi/percorsi_per_temi/dei_eroi_e_figure_mitiche/statua_di_leda_con_il_cigno (Capitoline Museums) "Leda and the Swan"] , from the Albani collection (inv. MC0302).Further reading
*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.
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