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Apelles

4th century BC Greek painter

  • Fame54.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia6.5K
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Lived -370–-306, aged 64Turkey
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    -370–-306
    Aged 64
Summary
Updated 2026-06-10

The painter Alexander the Great chose for his portrait — and whom Pliny the Elder, centuries later, called the best who ever lived.

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Apelles worked on the island of Kos in the 4th century BC, during the 112th Olympiad (332–329 BC). He painted Alexander the Great, a commission that likely fixed his place in history. Pliny the Elder, writing in Naturalis Historia, ranked him above every painter who came before or after. Almost nothing of his actual work survives, but the judgment stuck.

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54.5
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Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
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