person
Apelles
also: Apelles
The most celebrated painter of antiquity (4th century BC), court painter to Alexander the Great. Cicero invokes his famous Venus Anadyomene, whose head and breast he finished exquisitely while leaving the rest sketched, as an image of his own half-completed restoration.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 1.9 §15 As Apelles brought to finish the head of his Venus
Apelles, the supreme Greek painter, was said to have finished the head and breast of his Venus Anadyomene exquisitely but left the body sketched in. Cicero's image for a restoration that saved his life but not his standing or property.