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 TIMANTIIES Contest of Ajax and Ulysses for Arms of Achilles, with which he won the prize in competition with Parrhasius ; The Death of Palamedes ; a Hero preserved in the Tem- ple of Peace at Borne ; Sleeping Cyclops, a small picture in which the subject was made to appear gigantic by the introduction of some satyrs measuring his thumb with a thyrsus ; and the Sacrifice of Iphigenia, one of the most famous of ancient paintings. In this picture, which was painted in competi- tion with Colotes of Teos, the artist repre- sented Agamemnon veiled, because, most critics say, he felt a father's grief to be be- yond the power of his art ; but it seems more reasonable to believe that he did so in obedience to that truly Greek sentiment which demanded a certain dignity and re- serve in treating the most tragic subjects. The features of the King, distorted with grief, would have violated this feeling, and an impassive countenance would have ex- posed the painter to the charge of coldness. Wiseh/, then, he hid it from sight and left its workings to the imagination. This pict- ure is spoken of by Cicero (Orat, 22), by Quiutilian (ii. 13), and by Valerius Maximus (viii. 11, ext. 6). Timanthes probably took the hint of veiling Agamemnon from Euripi- des (Iphig. Aul., 1550). A supposed imita- tion of this picture was found on a house wall at Pompeii (Mus. Borb., iv. 3). TIMANTHES, painter, of Sicyon, 3d cen- tury ac. Plutarch praises (Arat., 32) his picture of the Battle of Pelleni, in which Aratus won a victory over the JStolians (240 B.C.). TIMARETE, painter, daughter of Micon the younger. She painted a Diana, pre- served at Ephesus, said by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [147]) to have been in a very ancient style of art. TIMBAL, LOUIS CHARLES, born in Paris in 1822, died there, Nov. 20, 1880. Sacred history painter, pupil of Drolling. Medals : 2d class, 1848, 1857, 1859 ; 1st class, 1861 ; L. of Honour, 1864. Works : Christ carried to Tomb, Virgin and Magda- len at Foot of the Cross (1848) ; Christ's Agony on Mount of Olives (1849); St. John the Apostle at Ephesus (1851); Captive Jews in Babylon, Resurrection of Jairus's Daugh- ter (1852); Madonna (1853); Christ bearing his Cross, and Portrait of Cardinal Donnet (1855); The Church Triumphant, Pierrefitto (1857) ; Obsequies of a Christian Martyr (1857) ; Madame d'Oseville, and Virgin at Foot of Cross (1858) ; Mass at St. Peter's (1859); St. John at Ephesus, Lyons (1860) ; The Studio (Princess Mathilde), St. Rose of Viterbo (1861); Chapel of St. Geuevieve at St. Sulpice (18G2-64) ; Chapel of the Cate- chism at St. I5tienne du Mont (1865) ; A Venetian (1865) ; The Muse and the Poet (1866), Louvre ; The Agony of our Lord (1867), Luxembourg Museum ; mural paint- ings (1873-76), Church of the Sorbouno ; four pictures (1877), Chnpel of the Novi- tiate, Rennes ; Burial of our Lord (1878) ; Presentation of the Virgin, Church of Incar- ville, Euro ; Portraits of Vicomte Delaborde, Church Levcque, mile Saisset, Duke and Duchess do la Rochefoucauld, Duchess de Mirepoix, and M. G. des Seguins. Meyer, Gesch., 364 ; Larousso ; L'Art (1880), xxiii. 216 ; Ch. Timbal, Notes et causeries sur 1'Art, with a notice of his life and works by the Vicomte H. Delaborde (Paris, 1881). TIMOCLEA BEFORE ALEXANDER, Domenichino, Louvre ; canvas, oval, H. 3 ft. 9 in. x 4 ft. 11 in. Alexander, on a throne before a tent, surrounded by guards, gives her freedom to Timoclea, who is led be- fore him by a Thraciau soldier, and re- stores her children to her ; in background, at right, Alexander's troops entering Thebes (Boeotia). Collection of Louis XIV., who bought it in 1685. Engraved by Delignon. Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Musee franyais, i. Part 1 ; Filhol, ix. PI. 643 ; Landon, Vies, PI. 111. TIMOMACHUS, a famous Greek painter, of Byzantium, probably 1st century B.C., though some place him earh'er. Pliny says (xxxv. 40 [136]) that Julius Cffisar bought his two pictures, Ajax, and Medea, for