Apelles

Apelles was the most celebrated Greek painter of antiquity, flourished in the 4th century BC. He was bred, if not born, at Ephesus. He lived at the court of Alexander the Great. His great work was "Aphrodité Anadyomene". He was a man conscious, like Dürer, of mastery in his art, as comes out in his advice to the criticising shoemaker to "stick to his last."

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Apeman, Apennines, Apercu, Aperient, Aperiodic