Alexander (artists)

Alexander (Gr. ) 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.Johann Joachim Winckelmann, vol. ii. p. 47, v. p. 120, ed. Eiselein Alexander, a son of king Perseus of Macedon, who was a skillful metalsmith.Plutarch, Aemil. Paul. 37 Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver of gems, whose name occurs in an inscription in Doni.Giovanni Battista Doni, Inscriptiones Antiquae, Florence (1731), p. 319, No. 14.

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