Apelles
370 BCE – 306 BCE · aged 64
4th century BC Greek painter
- Born
- 370 BCE · Colophon
- Died
- 306 BCE · Kos
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- 370 BCEBornBorn in Colophon
- 306 BCEDiedDied in Kos
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- 323 BCE – 30 BCEHellenistic period
Biography
Apelles of Kos (Ancient Greek: Ἀπελλῆς; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79–97 and passim), rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332–329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great.
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