17 December 2024

Apelles

Apelles of Kos

Greek painter Apelles 

He probably used only a small variety of colours. Simplicity of design, beauty of line, and charm of expression were supposedly his chief merits. About an Ancient Greek painter who had miraculous abilities with a remarkably limited set of four colours: Using only red, yellow, black, and white paint.

This mural from Pompeii is believed to be based on Apelles' Venus Anadyomene, brought to Rome by Augustus.
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


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Those people might have been murderers, sadists, brutes, ugly apish subhumans for all I knew, but I found myself thinking.

 "What charming people, what flair, how beautiful they are. Steinbeck