This man often used Campaspe, the mistress of Alexander the Great, as a model although Phryne may have stood in for his Aphrodite Rising from the Sea, the painting which inspired The Birth of Venus.
A recreation of one work by this man is set in a throne room with three coffered arches looking out onto the sky. That recreation depicts Repentance as a crone looking backward at a naked Truth, who points her finger toward the ceiling. This artist once identified a jester who had fooled him into barging in on a king's banquet by sketching the jester's face, and he is shown dressed in pale blue and leading Raphael by the hand in Ingres' The Apotheosis of Homer. The aforementioned recreation of this man's painting shows two women pulling on the ears of Midas as he reaches toward the title figure, a young woman with a torch who drags a nearly naked man by his hair, assisted by Fraud and (*) Conspiracy. This man often used Campaspe, the mistress of Alexander the Great, as a model although Phryne may have stood in for his Aphrodite Rising from the Sea, the painting which inspired The Birth of Venus. For 10 points, name this Greek whose Calumny was recreated by Botticelli
A recreation of one work by this man is set in a throne room with three coffered arches looking out onto the sky.
Apelles