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Title: St. Nicholas [serial] Year: 1873 (1870s) Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 Subjects: Children's literature Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.] Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Text Appearing Before Image: rd-ing to custom. Artemisia gradually faded awayfrom the effects of her sorrow; and she lived onlytwo years longer than Mausolus. Meantime, she had commenced the erection ofthe Mausoleum, and although she died before itscompletion, the artists continued faithfully to ex-ecute her commands, and to vie with each other inthe excellence of their work, for the sake of theirown fame. There were five artists engaged in the ornamen-tation of the Mausoleum. Bryaxis, who executedthe reliefs upon the north face; Timotheus thoseof the south ; Leochares the west, and Scopas theeast, while Pythis was allotted the quadriga, orfour-horse chariot, which crowned the whole.The tomb was erected upon a spot that roseabove the city, and overlooked the entrance to theharbor. Writers of the twelfth century praised itsbeauty, but in A. D. 1402, when the Knights of St.John took possession of the place, the monumentno longer remained, and a castle was built upon itssite. The tomb had been buried, probably by an

Text Appearing After Image: THE VENUS OF MILO. (SEE PACE 40O.) placed in the British Museum, and called the Hali-carnassus sculptures. The whole height of the Mausoleum was onehundred and forty feet,—the north and south sideswere sixty-three feet long, and the others a littleless,—the burial vault was at the base, and thewhole structure was a mass of magnificent design i88i.] STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. 403 and execution. It is said that the figure of Mau-solus was in the quadriga, above all, and so placedthat it could be seen from a great distance by landor sea. It was a work worthy to be called a won-der in its day, and from it we still take our wordmausoleum, which we apply to all burial-placesworthy of so distinguished a name. The Colossus at Rhodes. The art of the island of Rhodes was second onlyto that of Athens. This island is but forty-fivemiles long and twenty miles wide at its broadestpart, and yet its works of art were so numerous asto make their number seem like a fable. At thecity of Rhodes alon

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