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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

Note 360 — BOOK IX[283]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

Apelles (fl. circa 332 b.c.), the famous Greek painter. His Aphrodite Anadyomene (vide supra) was originally painted for the Temple of Æsculapius in Cos. It was afterwards bought by Augustus and placed in the Temple of Cæsar in Rome.—T.

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