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What does Apelles mean?

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Noun
  1. (used connotatively) A master artist.
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Apelles is described as the greatest painter of Antiquity for perfect technique in drawing, brilliant color and modeling.
Apelles was destined to bear away the palm from all his predecessors and successors.
Seeing this, Apelles divided the second line, to every one's astonishment.
Mary, the widow of Apelles, to the wife of Karnis, the singer.
In the Onites apelles the tarsi are so habitually lost, that the insect has been described as not having them.
Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.

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