Alexander disliked Apelles while they both were in Alexander's retinue. Many years later, while travelling by sea, a storm forced Apelles to land in Ptolemy's...

Apelles was a painter of ancient Greece. Apelles may alsorefer to: Apelles (gnostic), the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century Apelles of Heraklion...

'revelations' which Apelles read out in public. Marcion preached that Christians should be celibate and should not marry, so Apelles' relationship with...

realizing that Apelles had fallen in love with the girl, gave her to the artist in a gesture of extreme magnanimity. Pliny went on to note that Apelles' painting...

ancient painting by Apelles, the work was completed in about 1494–95, and is now in the Uffizi, Florence. The content of Apelles' painting, as described...

Apelles of Heraklion (Greek: Ἀπελλῆς) is numbered among the Seventy Disciples. Along with the Apostles Urban of Macedonia, Stachys, Ampliatus, Narcissus...

Commons has media related to Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern. Wikisource has original works by or about: Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern Matthäus Appelles...

Trichoxys apelles is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Newman in 1838. Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the...

he saw them again in October. Then, under the pseudonym Apelles latens post tabulam (Apelles hiding behind the painting), he presented his description...

the young Alexander in love. According to tradition, she was painted by Apelles, who had the reputation in antiquity for being the greatest of painters...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cigaritis apelles. Wikispecies has information related to Cigaritis apelles. Cigaritis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera...

Polyommatinae Tribe: Polyommatini Genus: Glaucopsyche Scudder, 1872 Synonyms Apelles Hemming, 1931 Bajluana Korshunov & Ivonin, 1990 Phaedrotes Scudder, 1876...

Not a day without a line drawn Pliny the Elder attributes this maxim to Apelles, an ancient Greek artist. nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo No day...

judge beyond the crepida") and ascribed to the Greek painter Apelles of Kos. Supposedly, Apelles would put new paintings on public display and hide behind...

much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in Pliny's Natural History, with the anecdote that the great Apelles employed Campaspe, a mistress...

the great artists of classical Greece, Praxiteles and Apelles. According to Athenaeus, Apelles saw Phryne walk naked into the sea at Eleusis, and inspired...

Oliver had to scuttle her. Before Apelles captured her the privateer had captured the sloop Friends. While Apelles was in sight, Sarpedon recaptured Friends...

small-scale models, and fragments of it have been identified. The Greek painter Apelles of Kos, a contemporary of Praxiteles, produced the panel painting Aphrodite...

3rd-century BC Hellenistic painting, perhaps by Philoxenus of Eretria or Apelles. This mosaic represents a battle in which Alexander of Macedonia charges...

his Natural History, relates the story of a contest between Apelles and Protogenes: 'Apelles sailed [to Rhodes], eager to see the works of a man known to...

Alexander the Great gives his concubine, Campaspe, as a gift to the painter Apelles when he sees that the painter has fallen in love with her. The painting...

young woman her freedom, and has her portrait painted by the artist Apelles. Apelles quickly falls in love with her too; when the portrait is finished,...

French poet and reformer Nicholas Bourbon (the elder) dubbed him "the Apelles of our time", a typical accolade at the time. Holbein has also been described...

time. This included commissioning sculptures by Lysippos, paintings by Apelles and gem engravings by Pyrgoteles. Ancient authors recorded that Alexander...

(Nathanael), Luke the Evangelist, Clement of Sardice or Clement of Rome and Apelles of Heraklion (Greek sources say that Saint Luke (Loukias) was someone other...

made this") The signature echoes one used by the ancient Greek artists Apelles and Polykleitos. It was the only work he ever signed. Vasari also reports...

Zoroaster, Ptolemy, Raphael as Apelles and Perugino, Il Sodoma or Timoteo Viti as Protogenes...

Nino Pisano, Apelles or the Art of painting in detail (1334–1336); relief of the Giotto's Bell Tower in Florence, Italy...

the three types of retinal photoreceptors. John Gage's The Fortunes Of Apelles provides a summary of the history of primary colors as pigments in painting...

presents a substantial argument that it was the famous ancient Greek painter Apelles who is depicted in contemplation by Rembrandt and not Aristotle. Another...