Apelles
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4th century BC Greek painter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad , possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great.
