Apelles

The mosaic depicting the Battle of Alexander represents one of the greatest masterpieces conserved in the National Museum of Archaeology in Naples and it is world-renown for depicting Alexander's features. A photographic campaign expressly conducted for this volume presents new evidence of the work's most important details, facilitating the presentation of a hypothesis that would previously have seemd bold, but which is justified by literary or archaeological tradition and by the constant discovery of original paintings in Macedonia.