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Apelles standing profile looking at a tablet of geometric figures


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Ideal portait of Apelles, standing in a landscape with a pensive pose and cladded with a long toga, wearing a crown of laurels. He is seen in profile looking at a tablet with four geometrical shapes and a measuring device (?) nearby.

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Ingenuity: Ingenium, Portrait, Artist, Melancholy, Geometry

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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