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Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, stands next to Phid-ias as one of the most eminent of Greek sculptors. His workswere executed during the fourth century b.c. Among his chiefpieces may be mentioned the Cnidian Aphrodite. This stoodin the Temple of Aphrodite at Cnidus, and was regarded by theancients as the most perfect embodiment of the goddess of beauty.Pilgrimages were made from distant countries to Cnidus for thesake of looking upon the matchless statue. Lysippus.—This artist is renowned for his works in bronze. He spake, and awful bends his sable brow,Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.High heaven with reverence the dread signal took,And all Olympus to the centre shook. Bulfinchs Age of Fable. THE RHODIAN COLOSSUS. 187 s He flourished about the middle of the fourth century B.C. Hisstatues were in great demand. Many of these were of colossalsize. Alexander gave the artist many orders for statues of him-self, and also of the heroes that fell in his campaigns.
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THE LAOCOON GROUP. The Rhodian Colossus and Schools of Art. — The most notedpupil of Lysippus was Chares, who gave to the world the cele-brated Colossus at Rhodes (about 280 b.c). This was another ofthe wonders of the world. Its height was about one hundred and 188 SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. fifty feet, and a man could barely encircle with his arms the thmnbof the statue.^ After standing little more than half a century, itwas overthrown by an earthquake. For nine hundred years theColossus then lay, like a Homeric god, prone upon the ground.Finally, the Arabs, having overrun this part of the Orient (a.d.672), appropriated the statue, and thriftily sold it to a Jewish mer-chant. It is said that it required a train of nine hundred camelsto bear away the bronze. This gigantic piece of statuary was not a solitary one at Rhodes ;for that city, next after Athens, was the great art centre of theGrecian world. Its streets and gardens and pubhc edifices wereliterally crowded with statues. The is

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