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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: sus, at Rhodes ; and when DemetriusPoliorcetes besieged that city, he was careful tospare this temple for the sake of the picture ofProtogenes. Demetrius also showed marked per-sonal attentions to the painter, who lived in acottage outside the walls of the city, and quietlycontinued his work in the midst of the siege.When Demetrius demanded of him how he daredto remain in so exposed a position, Protogenesanswered : I know that you are at war with theRhodians, but not with the arts. Upon this reply,Demetrius stationed a guard about the cottage, andthe painter worked quietly on, amidst the din ofwar which raged all about him. The Ialysus was carried to Rome in later times,and placed in the temple of Peace. Another remarkable picture by Protogenes wasthe representation of a satyr leaning against acolumn. The painter bestowed great pains uponthe figure of the satyr, and considered it the best it as if it were alive. This amused and delightedthe populace, but it was so disagreeable to Pro-

Text Appearing After Image: HEAD OF JUNO. POSSIBLY BY ALCAMENES. IN THE LUDOVISIPALACE, ROME. (SEE PAGE IQ2.) part of the work; but on the column he painted apartridge, which was so true to nature that muchattention was given to it,—even the bird-sellersbrought tame partridges to the picture, and whenthe living birds saw the painted one they chirped to

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