Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 429
enconsidered. The positive truth concerning theirorigin is not known. Some critics believe them tobe of the Greek school of Lysippus ; but the gen-eral belief is that the Emperor Augustus carried said to be the united work of the two great sculp-tors, Phidias and Praxiteles. They are colossal… … THE BRONZE HORSES OF VENICE (SHOWING THE TOP OF THE ARCH ABOVE THE PRINCIPAL ENTRANCE TO THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARK). them from Alexandria to Rome after his victoryover Mark Antony, about 30 B. C. Augustus placed them on a triumphal arch, andthe emperors Nero, Domitian, Trajan, and Con-stantine,…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 429](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-stnicholasserial81dodg-429-321.webp)
![An illustration from XVIIme [i.e. dix-septième] siècle : lettres, sciences et arts, France, 1590-1700 (1882)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-xviimeiedixsepti00jaco-453-194.webp)
