Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 26
and considered it the best partof the work; but on the column he painteda partridge, which was so true to naturethat much attention was given to it, —even the bird-sellers brought tame par-tridges to the picture, and when the livingbirds saw the painted one they chirped toit as if it were alive.… … AETION. This artist is sometimes said to have lived in the time of Alexander;but Lucian, who gave an account of him, distinctly declares that helived in the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. He painted a wonderful picture of the Nuptials of Alexander andRoxana, with Erotes, or cupids, busy about…
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