St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-01-30

finest collection of Greek antiquities.
part of these being in the British Muse
um, and part in that at South Kensing-
ton.) Here also is Michael Angeles
Fettered Slaves,-one of his best works,
and later pieces of Cellini, the broth
ers Anguier, Chaudet, Houdon, Canova
and others.
On the first floor is saloon of an
cient bronzes, collection of $4,000
drawings covering the walls of fourteen
of these were designs for
paintings by the most celebrated mas
ters,-thirty rooms containing worries,
terra cottas, porcelain, tapestries, gems
and wood-carvings, and superb col
lection of 1900 oil paintings. While
Florence has in her twin palaces, the
Uffizi and Pitti, a larger number of
really valuable and satisfactory pic
lures, yet no other gallery of oil paint
ings in Europe presents so fair repre-
of so many different schools
as the Louvre. The best Dutch pictures
are in Holland, the best of the Flemish
masters in Antwerp, the finest works of
the Spanish masters, Murillo and Velas-
quez, in Madrid and Seville, and,-if
we except the Sistine Madonna of
Raphael in Dresden,-the best products
of Italian art in Italy. But almost every
great painter of the continent has one
or more good pictures in the Louvre
and here only, outside of Italy, can one
folm good idea of the different styles
and merits of Italian painters. 1t may
not be amiss to mention a few of the
best works of each school. 1t will GER
tainly be of some slight service to those
who may hereafter extend their re-
searches in this direction, to know sim
ply the names of eminent artists. Of
the
ITALIAN SCHOOLS,
preceding the time of Raphael, we find
the Coronation of Mary by Fra Angeli-
co, st. Thomas Aquinas by Gozzoli,
Madonnas by Filippo Lippi and Peru
ginO, and Mont Parnassus and the
Victory of Minerva by Andrea Man
tegua. By Leonardo da Vinci are Ma
donna with infant Christ and st. Anne,
"a beautiful picture and two portraits,
his Mona Lisa and one of an unknown
1nly hu Garranuin tho Morr;,cro "a c.
Catherine, and Jupiter and Antiope !;
by Raphael, Belle Jardiniere Zone of his
best Madonnas), Virgin with the Veil,
st. Michael cOnquering Satan, and two
portraits; by Titan, The Entombment,
The Christ at Emmaus, Jupiter and An
tiOpe, and several portraits by Paul
Veronese, The Marriage at Cana; by
GiorgioDe, Rustic Feast-the cOloring
of this is admirable and by Palma
Vecchio, Alteration of the Shepherds.
The last four artists belong to the Ven
etian school.
THE EARLY FLEMISH AND GERMAN
SCHOOL
is represented by Jan Van Eyck's, The
Chancellor Rollin revering the Virgin,
and by three of Memling's best pictures,
viz, Mary Magdelene with the box of
ointment, John the Baptist, and an al
tar-piece in three parts,-the centre
having the Madonna and Child Jesus,
the wings the family of the artist and
two saints.
THE LATER GERMAN SCHOOL
has here portrait by Albert Durer of
Nuremberg, fine portraits by Holbein
the yOuDger,-the best of these being
one of Kratzer, astronomer to Henry
VIII of England and one of Sir Thomas
More,-and a Venus by Kranach.
though this is much inferior to other
works of the same artist in Weimar and
elsewhere in Germany.
FLEMISH MASTERS.
Though the works of these painters
are very widely scattered over Eng
land, Belgium, Holland, Germany and
even Italy, yet the Louvre possesses Sc
ries OF twenty-One paintings by Rubens,
which represent scenes in the life of
Marie de Medicis and which were origl-
nally executed for the Luxembourg
Palace. These are much admired bv
many, but nearly all of Rubens' larger
pictures have elements of fierceness and
terror about them, which, in spite of
their bold and spirited drawing and
brilliant coloring, make them quite as
forbldding as attractive. This painters
forte is in the delineation of wild boar
hunts. Of this school are excellent por-
traits by Van Dyck, Christ imparting
Blessing, by Quentin Metsys, (who pro-
perly belongs to the early schoOD, and
several of the best of the works of that
prince of genre (scenes in social life)
painters, Teniers. One must visit The
Hague and Amsterdam to see the best
pictures of the
DUTCH SCHOOL,
such, for instance, as Rembrandt's Night
Watch, and School of ANATOMY, Pot
ter's Cattle, Jan Stems Guest Chamber
In the Painters Brewery, and Quack
Doctor, and Van der Helst's Argue
busters. But Paris has Rembrandt's
Angel of Tobias, Christ at Emmaus,
and The Holy Family at Nazareth, Ter
burg's Officer and Girl, Dow's Dropsi-
cal Woman, Jan Steen's Roysterers-a
tavern scene,-Ostade's Village School,
of animals by Snyders and