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Apelle of Cos , which is written also Apeles or Apèles , was a painter famous of ancient Greece, quoted by Pline Old the. He lived to the IV E in Greece.

Life and work

One thinks, while basing oneself on the writings of Ovide and Pline Old the, which it would have been born with Cos in 352 before J. - C., but according to the Souda, it would have been born with Colophon. Lost, its works are known for us only by literary descriptions.

Calumny

  • Calumny is undoubtedly most famous of these works.

Another painter, Antiphilos, had calumniated Apelle in public place, showing it of treason towards Ptolémée IV. Call left for the prison. He was then recognized innocent; the king reduced in slavery the slanderer, and gave it to Apelle.
Apelles painted itself the first allegorical painting, named Calumny , from its lived. The topic of the Calumny of Call had been born.

  • This topic (important) influenced other artists during centuries, such as for example Botticelli and Albrecht Dürer which tried, each one on their side, to repaint this

allegory starting from descriptions of Lucien de Samosate: to see the articles the Calumny of Calls - .

Descriptions of work

  • Lucien de Samosate,
  • Bibliography - Commelin, Pierre, Greek Mythology and Roman , Belin, 1960

Caption associated with Alexandre

Several legends run about the painter. Pline old the - tells that Alexandre, by seeing a portrait of his/her preferred concubine, Pancaste, understood that Apelle in was in love. Instead of being annoyed one knows the impetuous character of Alexandre - the king offered his partner to the painter. Alexandre, who regarded himself as a god, liked Apelle and his art as well as it supported other vexations on behalf of this last. Call would have for example made include/understand in Alexandre whom he wrongly spoke about painting and through by saying to him that he made laugh to the assistants who prepared his colors.

Works

  • the Venus anadyomene

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