Apelles of Kos (; ; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79–97 and passim), rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332–329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great.
Apelles of Kos was an acclaimed painter in ancient Greece during the 4th century BC, known for his portrait of Alexander the Great and considered by his contemporaries to be superior to other artists of his time. Much of what we know about him comes from the writings of the Roman author Pliny the Elder, who preserved details about his life and work that might otherwise have been lost to history.
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Apelles of Kos (; ; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79–97 and passim), rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332–329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great.
== Biography == Probably born at Colophon in Ionia, he first studied under Ephorus of Ephesus, but after he had attained some celebrity, he became a student of Pamphilus at Sicyon; he thus combined the Dorian thoroughness with the Ionic grace. Attracted to the court of Philip II, he painted him and the young Alexander with such success that he became the recognized court painter of Macedon, and his picture of Alexander holding a thunderbolt ranked in the minds of many with the Alexander with the spear of the sculptor Lysippus. Hundreds of years later, Plutarch was among the unimpressed, deciding that it had failed to accurately reproduce Alexander's colouring: "He made Alexander's complexion appear too dark-skinned and swarthy, whereas we are told that he was fair-skinned, with a ruddy tinge that showed itself especially upon his face and chest."thumb|300px|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|left]]
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