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Alexander (artists)


Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος) was the name of a number of different artists in ancient Greece and Rome:

  • 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.
  • Alexander, a son of king Perseus of Macedon, who was a skillful metalsmith.
  • Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver of gems, whose name occurs in an inscription in Doni.

References

References

  1. Mason, Charles Peter. (1867). "Alexander". [[Little, Brown and Company]].
  2. [[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]], vol. ii. p. 47, v. p. 120, ed. Eiselein
  3. [[Plutarch]], ''Aemil. Paul.'' 37
  4. [[Giovanni Battista Doni]], ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ns5QAAAAcAAJ&q=Giovanni+Battista+Doni Inscriptiones Antiquae]'', Florence (1731), p. 319, No. 14.
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