The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-29 00:00:00

The Musee Napoleon 111.

The Muses Napoleon 111. has been thrown open
to the public. It occupies the nine large rooms in
the Louvre formerly occupied by the paintings of
the French school, and which follow each other to
the east of the square saloon. It is hero that the
Phoenician antiquities, acquired during M. Renan's
mission in PEceeicia and Asia Minor, have found
their place. •A selection from the Dec de Llanyne's
collection, paintings from Pompeii, and a portion of
the Ceramics in the Cazupana Museum have also
been -placed there. The first room is occupied by
antiquities from Rhodes, Cyprus, and Jadma. One
of the glass cases contains an antique vase from
Judne 3, some fragments of Moabite pottery—which
somewhat resembles the pottery introduced by the
Arabs into Europe—and also some fragments from
Gaza, the city known in connexion with Samson's
astounding feat. The second room shows the first
Asiatic form, with a bas-relief representing hunt-
ing-scenes, public games, and the like, are ranged
n uomv ovens,
occupy
u,
poyf
r fishes,a
m o
beginnings of western pottery. Pitchers of an
round the shelves of this division. These pitchers,
intended to hold honey, wine, and oil, were found
in the burial-ground of Argyllm. Vases painted
in the primitive style, dating from the infancy of
Art, follow in the next room. Next come vases in
mhaunmshainp.bFusutuse,
the adjoining room. In the middle is found a
large sarcophagus in baked clay, called the
Lydian
tomb. In the glass cases ranged round
the rooms
are funeral urns for holding the
ashes of the dead,
sepulchral lamps, and bas-reliefs
from the tombs.
Many of these urns represent the
ethieusisahna
deceased recum-
pweoOrkf
bent on his death-bed. One of these sepulchral
tables represents a dog and some geese picking up
the crumbs under the table.
hl.bited earthenware found
at Cceri, an Etruscan
town, where the Bacchidaz, expelled from Corinth,
established themselves 655 B.c. The art had then
made great progress—the
designs were more
artistic, the patterns
more correct, and the materials
finer. During the Augustan period these vases
fetched at Rome their price in gold. Some of the
legs represented on them are in boots not inferior in
elegance to those worn in our time. The period of
the decadence in Greece follows. The vases in the
next room are inferior in every respect—material,
pattern, finish, and all. Metal began to reign
supreme, and the art of pottery was neglected. In
the eighth room are found a collection of red earthen-
ware
number
of and others, varnished with various colours.
together with painted dishes. The greater
!
of the paintings represent, as usual, games
a and
urus,
mythological subjects—Theseus and the 311.ra,not
Reba
the Centaur, Nessus, Hercules and Deja"'
and Jupiter, &c. Besides these there
is exhibited in
are a great
variety of cups and drinking vas!.
o"..
„s, human
the middle of the room, together wan 1"'
de r stags and
heads more or less grotesque,
beads of stags and
heads more or less groteSqhie
contains a collec-
wild boars, &c. The ninth room
lasses, mosaics, and
p °
tion of transparent and acidueecgorate the houses at
frescoes, which served to
tings are extremely fresh,
Pompeii. All these paw _
One of these paintings repro.,
and rich in colours.
in a garden, and looks as it
sents a party sitting
rday.
had been painted yes.e

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created luulk, A QUARTERLY REVIEWER.--North-
DArli has recently lost
_tonshire one of its learned
auw
worthies in the shape of the Rev. Thomas James, M.A.,
who died a few days since at Sheddingworth vicarage. in
that country. He was Hon. Canon of Petersborough, Rural
Dean, Vicar of Sibbertoft and of Theddingworth, Hon.
Corresponding Secretary of the Northamptonshire Archi-
tectural Society, &c. lie was educated at Christ Church,
Oxon, 8.A., 1832; ALA.., 1835. His literary tastes and
abilities brought him a very large number of friends, by
whom bis death will be deeply regretted. He contributed
several articles, such as " Northamptonshire," "Bees,"
Flower Gardens," " Labourers' Cottages," &0., to the
Quarterly Review. He also edited "hurray's Illustrated
Edition of dEsop's Fables," and was the editor of the
"Illustrated Edition of the Book of Common Prayer," abortt
to be issued by the same publisher. Mr. James was re.
nowned for his taste and learning in archmological
The matters,
and many of the recent church restorations
in
Northamp-
tonshireimprove-
ment were effected under his guidance..pal
aims,
meat of labourers' cottages was one of his pan el
and most of the model dwellings in the
Midlandslectured on this
the
origin to his ceaseless activity.
He also
South Kensington
subject, about two years since, at _
felt by the various
Museum. His death will be severely
archreaogical associations in the midland oeuuties.