Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-06
Art and Artists.

SaXony will have an industrial eXhi-
bition at Chemnitz in 1887.
Leeds, England. proposes to open an
exhibition of the work of living York
shire artists.
The so-called Trojan antiquities,
found by Schliemann, have been trans
ferred to the Autographed Museum
in Berlin.
L'Art reprOduces in wood-cut Mr..
Ridgway Knights picture in the late
Salon" Les Babillardes four pea
SAINT girls lying in field gOssiping.
In Constantinople there is one Turk
ish painter OF portraits named IIamdi
Bey. lie gets high prices, owing to the
demand for curiositieS, but his work is
said to be execrable.
Robins door, modelled with relicfs
inspired by Dante's Inferno, will be
cast in one piece Of bronze by the pro-
cess called cire perdu, which was re-
discovered in this century by Barge.
In Philadelphia an art reception is
given by Mr.. William b. Bement at his
residence with the object of bringing
together the artists and well-to-do peo-
pie Of the city. Mr.. Bement has a gal
lery Of pictures Of some note.
The facade of the Duomo in Florenca
having been restored and embellished,
it is now proposed to cast in bronze the
great doors of this cathedral. The
Minister of Public Works offers 81, 900
for the beginning of public subscrip-
ton.
A national subscription for bronze,
marble, and granite monument to the
late Alexander ii. has been opened in
Russia. II will stand on the terrace of
the Winter Palace. Figures Of the lead
ing men of his reign will stand about
the pedestal.
The British National Gallery has a
new picture by an unknown Italian,
not unlike Botticelli in workmanship,
but with a warmer note. 1t is a COM
bat between Love and Chastity, the ar
row Of the former CHANGING from an oc-
tsgonal steel shield on the arm Of ChaS-
tity, while the latter advances to strike
Love with her chain.
On the leg of the bronze Bacchus
found lately in the Tiber is the print of
some coin, which unfortunately cannot
be deciphered. 1t is guessed that the
foundryman placed it there on purpose
to register the date, but this is some
what strained explanation. The eyes
of this statue turned out to be ivory,
not silver, as was first reported.
A vast number of engrayings, litho-
graphs, photographers, and other art
works 60 by law to the librarian Of
Congress. He has to provide room for
them, but the only places for them are
damp storage-rooms. Mr.. Spofford,
the librarian, has long desired that Con-
gress would make some disposition Of
these objects, which are sure to be ruin
ed without proper facilities and care.
The Courier deP Art alludes to
Walter Crane as 1.-THE most pretentious,
the most confused, and the most incor-
rect Of illustrators. One looks in vain
for trace Of legs in his figure OF a
woman, and it is wrong to massacre
three children about the body by igno-
rant strokes like those which he has
multiplied 10 the figures Of three small
genii without character Of any kind"
Through coins Of Kustendje, twenty
OF which have been presented lately to
The city Of Rome by Mr.. Brute
Amante, it has been discovered that the
town was once called Toni, and il the
place where the poet Ovid found exile
from Rome so bitter. They were dis.