Painting and Sculpture

Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles

Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles is an c.1740 history painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. It depicts a scene based on a story recorded by Pliny the Elder. Having commissioned a portrait painting of his lover Campaspe from the gifted court painter Apelles, Alexander the Great became aware of the love the artist felt for his mistress and relinquished her to him. It was one of three paintings Tiepolo produced inspired by the legend. The painting is today in the Getty Museum in California. An earlier depiction by Tiepolo is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. The subject has been treated by a number of other artists including Jacques-Louis David's Apelles Painting Campaspe in the Presence of Alexander the Great.

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• ▸Divisionism
• ▸Alexander Sokurov
• ▸Agnes Lawrence Pelton

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