Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-08
Whole Number 1888.

len," as it is called, and none wher
1 stranger can enjoy a few hours
stroll more pleasantly.
Bnt King Ludwig's greatest eff
forts were devoted to
ARCHITECTURE AND FINE ART.
With the assistance of a fine ar
chitect named Kleuze, he prOceede'
to construct a massive gallery for
the reception of vast collection o.
paintings, called the Pinacothek ; a
National Museum of Antiquities;
National Library; a new palace fol
modern paintings; a splendid opera
house, and capacious theatre. Be-
side these, he erected two or three
great elegant churches, surmounted
by lofty spires. He also had sever
al public monuments, chiefly in
bronze, placed in the public squares,
to the memory of celebrated Bavari-
ans. A great bronze obelisk, 100 feet
high, was erected in the centre of a
circular "platz," to the memory of
the 10000 Bavarians who lost their
lives in the disastrous invasion of
Russia in 1918. The inscription
says, ''They died for the deliverance
of their native landr' One is puz-
zled to subscribe to the truth of this
statement, as they were helping Ma
poleon to conquer Russia, which had
neither invaded nor harmed Bava-
ria, and were frozen in the attempt.
But 1 suppose something had to be
inscribed on the monument in justi-
lication of that ill-stared and wicked
invasion.
Across the Ludwigstrasse-the
widest and best street which he laid
out, and which is elegantly built up,
and occupied by many of the aristoc-
racy-he erected
GRAND TRIUNIPHAL ARCH,
an imitation of tire Arch of Consta-
tine at Rome, but it is larger and
more imposing. Near this great
arch and on the opposite side of
an embellished public square, are
two temples of art, one of the Ionic
stvle of architecture, called the
Glyptothek, and is filled with an
cient and modern sculptures and
bronzes-hundreds of the pieces from
Greece and Egypt. The other of
the COrinthian order of architec-
ture, is a museum for the safe keep
ing and exhibition of modern works
of art, including engravings etchings,
drawings, designs, etc. The latter
edifce was erected by Ludwig's son
Maximilian, who also founded a
great Polytechnic School in Munich,
which is filed with students.
THE BAvARIAN HALL OF FAME
is another noted monument or tenn
pie, erected by Ludwig. 1t stands
in the suburbs, on a rise of
ground overlooking the city, and is
composed of three angles OF sides of
a square, leaving the fourth side
open for a specific purpose. 1t rests
on lofty Doric pillars, and the eff
feet is grand and striking. The mar
bic busts of a hundred Bavarians,
who have been most celebrated in
science, art, music, literature states
manship, and war, are placed in
inches behind the columns, where
they can be seen as one approaches
the temple from the front. In front
of this Hall of Fame is placed the
colossal bronze statue of
THE GODDESS OF BAVARIA.
1t stands on a granite pedestal 80
feet high, and the figure itself is 65
feet high 1t is supposed to repre-
sent the PnOtectress of Bavaria, ac-
eompanied BY bronze lion, several
times thes of the largest elephant.
In her right hand is a drawn sword
for protection (but one would sup
pose so large and ferocious looking
a lion would amply furnish it); her
left hand, raised alOft, holds a chap
let TO crown merit. The figure was
modelled by Schwanthaler, and cast
at the Bavaria Royal Foundry, near
Munich, and is probably the lar
gest piece of bronze that ever was
made. 1t is difficult to convey an
idea of its huge proportions and I'M
posing appearance. A circular STAIR
way leads up into the place where
the large lady's brains ought to be,
in which there is standing-room for
eight persons! Peep-holes are cut
in the laurel crown worn by the fg-
ure, through which the visitor OBJ
tains commanding views of the city,
of the vast green plain spread out
like sea, and of the hoary-headed
old Alps of Tryoi in the distance.
So enormous a goddess and huge a
lion seem wholly disproportioned to
such a petty, little, subordinate, $50
lated State as Bavaria, and would
be more in harmony with proportions
and fitness of things if standing III
HYDE Park, London, and intended
to svmbolize rich and powerful
Britain with her protecting hon.
There it would mean something;
here nothing except absurd vanity.
Ludwig ought to have been EmPer-
or of ali Germany, instead Of King
only of little corner oiit. He pos
sessed the ambition and ability to
play such part to admiration.
LUDWIG PATRoNIzED ARTISTS,
associated with them, and attracted
to Munich hundreds of them from
all parts of Europe, and filled his
palaces and galleries with their
beautiful productions. His agents.
Italy, Greece, and Egypt,
in search of sculptures and ancient
curiosities, which he displayed in
his museum-halls. He sought after
paintings of the old masters, and
secured many hundreds of them for
his public picture-galleries. Where
he obtained all the money to make
so many expensive works of art,
in addition TO the cost of con-
structing so many great and splen-
did public buildings and monu-
ments, must forever remain myS-
terry.
He founded
THE GREAT PUBIIc LIhRAkA'