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Title: St. Nicholas [serial] Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 Subjects: Children's literature Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.] Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Text Appearing Before Image: HEAD OF JUNO. POSSIBLY BY ALCAMENES. IN THE LUDOVISIPALACE, ROME. (SEE PAGE IQ2.) part of the work; but on the column he painted apartridge, which was so true to nature that muchattention was given to it,—even the bird-sellersbrought tame partridges to the picture, and whenthe living birds saw the painted one they chirped to

Text Appearing After Image: THE QUOIT-THROWER. A COPY OF THE ORIGINAL BY MYRON. (SEE PAGE 192.) togenes that he painted over the bird, in order thatmen might see the satyr. AETION. This artist is sometimes said to have lived in thetime of Alexander; but Lucian, who gave anaccount of him, distinctly declares that he lived inthe time of Hadrian and the Antonines. He painted a wonderful picture of the Nuptialsof Alexander and Roxana, with Erotes or Cupidsbusy about them, and with the armor of the king.When this work was exhibited at the Olympicgames, one of the judges—Proxenidas—exclaimed: I reserve crowns for the heads of the athletae, butI give my daughter in marriage to the painterAetion, as a recompense for his inimitable paint-ing. Later, this picture was carried to Rome,and it has been said that Raphael sketched one ofhis finest compositions from it. The chief excel-lence of this painter was in his mode of mixing andlaying on of colors. The First Bass-relief. About twenty-five hundred years ago, there liv

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