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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Apelles

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

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

He wrote to his friend Fréart de Chantelou, who commissioned a second series, that the subject was "worthy of an Apelles", the most famous Greek painter of antiquity.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2012

To be esteemed as a painter was to be compared with lost and mythic artists: Parrhasios, Zeuxis and Apelles.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable."

From Time Magazine Archive

That task were worthy of the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, or the graving-tools of Lysippus.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra