Alexander (artists)
Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος) was the name of a number of different artists in ancient Greece and Rome:[1]
- Alexander, a painter, one of whose productions was said by Johann Joachim Winckelmann to be extant, painted on a marble tablet which bears his name.[2]
- Alexander, a son of king Perseus of Macedon, who was a skillful metalsmith.[3]
- Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver of gems, whose name occurs in an inscription in Doni.[4]
References
- Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alexander". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 123.
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann, vol. ii. p. 47, v. p. 120, ed. Eiselein
- Plutarch, Aemil. Paul. 37
- Giovanni Battista Doni, Inscriptiones Antiquae, Florence (1731), p. 319, No. 14.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexander". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 123.
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