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ANTIPHILUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTIPHILUS  , a

Greek painter, of the age of Alexander . He worked for Philip of Macedon and Ptolemy I. of
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Egypt . Thus he was a contemporary of
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Apelles, whose
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rival he is said to have been, but he seems to have worked in quite another style . Quintilian speaks of his facility: the descriptions of his
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works which have come down to us show that he excelled in
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light and shade, in genre representations, and in caricature . See Brunn, Geschichte der griechischen Kiinstler, ii.. p . 249 .

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