Apelles of Kos, ancient Greek painter, 4th century BC. Studied with the school of Sicyon, before working in the court of Alexander I of Macedonia. Pliny the Elder dates him to the 112th Olympiad, 332-329 BC. Apelles. Copperplate engraving by Philipp Kilian after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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