Apelles
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Apelles of Kos was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed, rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He
Detail from Alexander and Campaspe in Apelles' studio by Giovanni Antonio Guardi, c. 1745
Reconstruction of a mosaic depiction of the Battle of Issus after a painting supposed to be by Apelles or Philoxenus of Eretria found in the House of the Faun at Pompeii
A garden fresco from the House of Venus, in Pompeii.
A mosaic in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, Turkey.
The School of Athens
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The School of Athens is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze d
Apelles
…painters repeated his subjects, in a vain hope of giving some notion of the composition of them. Raphael may have portrayed himself as Apelles in The School of Athens and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings—The Birth of Venus and Calumny of Apelles—on his works. The 15th-century mathematician Luca Pacioli, when…
"The School of Athens" by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
The Stanza della Segnatura
Bramante as Euclid
Zoroaster; Ptolemy; Raphael as Apelles; and Perugino, Il Sodoma, or Timoteo Viti as Protogenes