Apelles

American  

[uh-pel-eez] / əˈpɛl iz /

noun

1. 360?–315? b.c., Greek painter.

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Apelles British  

/ əˈpɛliːz /

noun

1. 4th century _bc , Greek painter of mythological subjects, none of whose work survives, his fame resting on the testimony of Pliny and other writers

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Example Sentences

In her catalog essay, she wrote that Mr. Komar and Mr. Melamid anticipated the advent of “fake news” with an installation of paintings, alongside photographs and a handmade book, that they claim were created by an 18th-century abstract artist they had discovered named Apelles Ziablov.

From New York Times

While Hazel begins with a carnival of interconnected characters rattling around in the Apelles, her story ultimately flies out in all directions, spanning generations and continents as it explores the challenge of understanding one’s place in what might be called real life, while schlepping around others’ painful pasts as well as one’s own.

From New York Times

Ensconced in her childhood apartment in the monumental Apelles co-op, a full-block palazzo unmistakably modeled on the Apthorp at 78th Street and Broadway, Hazel methodically recounts a catastrophic concatenation of events during a city-smothering blizzard in 1978.

From New York Times

Alof de Wignacourt made the proclamation, comparing him to Apelles, the greatest painter of ancient times.

From New York Times

On a page on which Cicero remarked that the painter Apelles “finished the head and bust of his Venus with the most refined artistry, but left the rest of her body incomplete,” the Florentine reader, Agostino Vespucci, connected past to present: “Leonardo da Vinci works this way in all his paintings, as in the head of Lisa del Giocondo and that of Anne, mother of the Virgin. We will see what he will do in the Hall of the Great Council.”

From New York Times