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Apelles (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Apelles" in English language version.

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  • Bostock, John. "Natural History". Perseus. Tufts University. Retrieved 23 March 2017. "But it was Apelles of Cos, in the hundred and twelfth Olympiad, who surpassed all the other painters who either preceded or succeeded him. Single-handed, he contributed more to painting than all the others together, and even went so far as to publish some treatises on the principles of the art."

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  • Guillaume Apollinaire retold this story in his essay "On the Subject of Modern Painting", originally published in Les SoirĂ©es de Paris, February 1912. This tale is a literary trope epitomizing the sublime simplicity of the greatest art in the hands of a consummate artist: comparable examples are Giotto's perfect circle, drawn freehand, and the scholar-painter Chuang-tzu's perfect crab, which, following ten years of preparation, was drawn in a single stroke without lifting his ink brush from the paper.