Antiphilus was a Greek painter, of the age of Alexander. He worked for Philip of Macedon and Ptolemy I. of Egypt. Thus he was a contemporary of Apelles, whose rival he is said to have been, but he seems to have worked in quite another style. Quintilian speaks of his facility: the descriptions of his works which have come down to us show that he excelled in light and shade, in genre representations, and in caricature. Bust of Alexander the Great in the British Museum. ... Philip II of Macedon (Macedonia) (382 BC - 336 BC), King of Macedon (ruled 359 BC - 336 BC), was the father of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) and Philip III of Macedon. ... For the unrelated astronomer, see Ptolemy Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC–283 BC), ruler of Egypt (reigned 323 BC - 283 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. ... Another Apelles was the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century; Apelles (theologian). ... Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. ...
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Brunn, Geschichte der griechischen Kunstler, ii. p. 249.
Antiphilus was a Greek painter, of the age of Alexander.
Antiphilus, who was born in Egypt and had studied painting under Ctesidemus, rose to high rank as a painter in Alexandria.
Antiphilus showed a mean jealousy of Apelles, and accused him of joining in a plot against the king, for which the painter narrowly escaped punishment; but Ptolemy, finding that the charge was not true, sent Apelles a gift of one hundred talents to make amends.
Apelles was wrongly accused by the envious Antiphilus of participating with Theodotas in a conspiracy against Ptolemy...
Place, or large Square; op'ning upon which, (to the right, the left, and in front) were the Duke's palace, the house of Antiphilus Ephesian, and the Abbey; and whose centre was the mart or exchange...
He talks about the artist 'Antiphilus, who is praised for his Boy Blowing a Fire, and for the apartment, beautiful in itself, lit by the reflection from the fire...
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