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Stories of art and artists (1887)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 42

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Artemisia gradually fa-ded away from the effects ofher sorrow ; and she lived onlytwo years longer than Mau-solus. Meantime, she had begunthe erection of the Mausoleum ;and although she died beforeits completion, the artists con-tinued faithfully to execute hercommands, and to vie with each other… … THE VENUS OF MILO. ^4 STORIES OF ART AM) ARTISTS. theus those of the south; Leochares the west, and Scopas the easi ;while Pythis was allotted the quadriga, or four-horse chariot whichcrowned the whole. The tomb was erected upon ground that washigher than the city, and overlooked the entrance to…

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