Apelles

Apelles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Ἀπελλῆς). The most celebrated of Grecian painters, born, most probably, at Colophon in Ionia, though some ancient writers call him a Coan and others an Ephesian. He was the contemporary of Alexander the Great (B.C. 336-323), who entertained so high an opinion of him that he was the only person whom Alexander would permit to paint his portrait. We ...

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Apelles in Wikipedia

Another Apelles was the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century; Apelles (gnostic). "Apelles" was also a pseudonym used by the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner in writing on sunspots. The gossamer-winged butterfly genus Apelles is nowadays included in Glaucopsyche. Reconstruction of the mosaic depiction of the Battle of Issus after a painting by A...

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