Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 207
of Glycera was mentionedand praised by several ancient writers. Lucius Lucullus bought at Athens a copy of thispicture, for which he paid the large sum of twotalents, or twenty-three hundred and sixty dollars. Apelles. Apelles was the most distinguished of all theGreek painters. He lived from about… … BUST OF JUPITER, FOUND AT OTRICOL1 ; NOW IN THE VATICANPALACE, ROME. (SEE PACE 192.) His picture of the Venus Anadyomene (whichmeans, Venus rising out of the sea) was his mostfamous work. In it the goddess was wringing herhair, and the silvery drops fell around her in such away as to throw a…
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