| Parke Godwin - Biography - 1854 - 840 pages
...hiğ hand. The piece was finished with so much skill and dexterity, that it used to be said there wore two Alexanders : one invincible, the son of Philip ; the other inimitable, the production of Apelles. Alexander gave him likewise another remarkable proof of his regard : for when... | |
| Michael Bryan, George Charles Williamson - Engravers - 1909 - 592 pages
...Diana, at Ephesus : which was so admirably executed, that Plutarch reports that it used to be said then; were two Alexanders, one invincible, the son of Philip,...which is said to have cost the enormous sum of 100 talent*! (£21,600), was a picture of Venus rising from the sea, called ' Venus Anadyomene,' which... | |
| Michael Bryan - Dictionary - 1925 - 580 pages
...patronage and esteem of Alexander the Great, from whom he received the exclusive privilege of painting his likeness. Among others, was a portrait of Alexander...Venus Anadyomene,' which was painted for the temple of ^Ksculapius at Cos, and which Ovid has celebrated in his verses : Si Venerem Oois nunquam pinxisset... | |
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