. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary T STANDS IN THE LINE OFDESCENT, A LINE MARKED BY MANY LACUNAE,WHICH CONNECTS THE MURAL RELIEFS OF AS-SYRIA, WITH THEIR FULNESS OF HISTORIC DETAIL,AND THE MAGNIFICENTS OF IMPERIAL TOMB ILLUSTRATES THE ASIATIC CUSTOMOF REGARDING A TOMB AS A MONUMENT OF THEFAME, AND A RECORD OF THE EXPLOITS OF SOME GREAT RULER OR LEADER,* FOR ITS SCULPTURALFRIEZES COMMEMORATE THE EXPLOITS OF OF XANTHUS, ... - 424 AMONG THE MANY BEAUTIFUL MONUMENTS INTHE ANCIENT ATHENIAN CEMETERY OF THECERAMEICUS,
. Out-of-door memorials : mausoleums, tombs, headstones and all forms of mortuary T STANDS IN THE LINE OFDESCENT, A LINE MARKED BY MANY LACUNAE,WHICH CONNECTS THE MURAL RELIEFS OF AS-SYRIA, WITH THEIR FULNESS OF HISTORIC DETAIL,AND THE MAGNIFICENTS OF IMPERIAL TOMB ILLUSTRATES THE ASIATIC CUSTOMOF REGARDING A TOMB AS A MONUMENT OF THEFAME, AND A RECORD OF THE EXPLOITS OF SOME GREAT RULER OR LEADER,* FOR ITS SCULPTURALFRIEZES COMMEMORATE THE EXPLOITS OF OF XANTHUS, ... - 424 AMONG THE MANY BEAUTIFUL MONUMENTS INTHE ANCIENT ATHENIAN CEMETERY OF THECERAMEICUS, THERE IS NONE MORE INTEREST-ING AND ARTISTIC THAN THAT IN MEMORY OFDEXILEOS ERECTED IN THE YEAR - 394 B. C. THE MAUSOLEUMS OF C/ECILIA METELLA ON THEAPPIAN WAY, SO ELOQUENTLY DESCRIBED IN THE4 CANTO OF THE CH1LDE HAROLD, IS WELL PRE-SERVED AND IS A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE OFROMAN WORK 63 B. C. THE MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUST WAS A CIRCULARMONUMENT OF FULLY 220 FEET IN DIAMETERAND OF CONSIDERABLE HEIGHT, SURROUNDEDBY A PARK. IT IS NOW A MERE RUIN. IT WASERECTED DURING THE LIFE TIME OF AUGUSTUS 2? B. THE MAUSOLEUM OF THE EMPEROR HADRIANNOW THE CASTLE OF S. ANGELO, ON THE BANKOF THE TIBER, A MASSIVE CIRCULAR TOWER 987FEET IN CIRCUMFERENCE, WAS COMMENCED BYHADRIAN AND COMPLETED BY ANTONINUS PIUS 161 A. D. THE GOTHIC TOMBS OF THE SCALIGERS ATVERONA, ARE THE MOST REMARKABLE EXISTINGMORTUARY MONUMENTS OF THE MIDDLE AGESTHE FIRST WAS BUILT IN 1277 AND THE LAST IN 1375. THE TOMB OF NAPOLEON I. IN THE EGLISE DESINVALIDES AT PARIS, IS THE GREATEST OF MOD-ERN MONUMENTS AND COST ABOUT TWO MILLIONDOLLARS. THE REMAINS OF NAPOLEON WEREPLACED IN THE SARCOPHAGUS IN - 1861. IN AMERICA, THERE IS NO MONUMENT THAT SUR-PASSES IN ARTISTIC MERIT, THE TOMB OF GEN-ERAL GRANT AT NEW YORK, - - 1897- n~lFFANY GLASS & DECORATINGCOMPANY, 333 TO 341 FOURTH_ AVENUE, NEW YORK ....THE COMPANY INCLUDE IN THEIR LINE OF WORKALL FORMS OF MEMORIALS, MORE ESPECIALLYWINDOWS, ALTARS, PANELS AND ||HEIR WINDOWS ARE MADE OF
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