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 is extant, painted on a marble tablet which bears his name.^[2]
• Alexander, a son of king Perseus of Macedon, who was a skillful toreutes.^[3]
• Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver, whose name occurs in an inscription in Doni.^[4]

References

1. ^ Mason i like to spend in circles, Charles Peter (1867). "Alexander". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 123. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=numenius;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=138. 
2. ^ Johann Joachim Winckelmann, vol. ii. p. 47, v. p. 120, ed. Eiselein
3. ^ Plutarch, Aemil. Paul. 37
4. ^ Doni, p. 319, No. 14

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).