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English: Portrait of Alexander the Great. Marble, Hellenistic artwork, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Français : Portrait d'Alexandre le ...
He illustrated B.I. Wheeler's Life of Alexander the Great (1900), for which he did over 36 paintings and drawings from November 1898 to October 1899. His work for Century Magazine included travelling extensively, visiting Corsica (1894), Italy (1895, 1896), Greece (1897) and the Rhineland (1898) to illustrate travel articles by Augustine ...
Portrait of Madame David: 1813 oil on canvas 73 × 60 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great: 1814 oil on canvas 96.5 × 136 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France Leonidas at Thermopylae: 1814 oil on canvas 395 × 531 Louvre Museum, Paris Portrait of Étienne Maurice ...
A number of his paintings were taken to Rome (including Aphrodite Anadyomene) and placed there on public display; in two compositions featuring portraits of Alexander (Castor and Pollux with Victory and Alexander the Great, and The Figure of War with his Hands Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander) the Emperor Claudius ...
Pages in category "Alexander the Great in art" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Alexander is mentioned in the Zoroastrian Middle Persian work Arda Wiraz Nāmag as gizistag aleksandar ī hrōmāyīg, literally "Alexander the accursed, the Roman", [1] [2] [3] due to his conquest of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the burning of its ceremonial capital Persepolis, which was holding the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism in its Royal Archives.
The Family of Darius Before Alexander was the only painting mentioned by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the account of his 1786 visit to Venice. [11] He admired the painting during his stay at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta, and repeated the legend that the picture was painted by Veronese in gratitude for the hospitality of the Pisani. [11]
The Alexander Mosaic, a floor mosaic dating from c. 100 BC, is believed to be a "reasonably faithful" copy of Battle of Issus, [49] though an alternative view holds it might instead be a copy of a work painted by Apelles of Kos, [53] who produced several portraits of Alexander the Great. [54]
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