Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 423
s was born on the island ofParos, which was under the rule of Athens, about420 B. c. He was a very great artist, and manyaccounts of his works have come down to us, butof the Niobe group, we know nothing positivelyuntil the time of Sosius, who was appointed gov- ernor of Syria and Cilicia, by Mark… … jjio&e peFiArTT.j|i among them the Niobe group. It remained in itsplace at Rome about a century, and what becameof it is unknown. In the year A. D. 1583, therewas found, near the church of St. John Lateran, inRome, a copy of this group; it was purchased bythe Grand Duke of Tuscany and placed in…
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