Helena weekly herald., 1889-11-14
4 HELENA GIRL ABROAD.
Miss Marie Kleinschmidt Writes Of Her
Sight Seeing in Berlin.

MISS Marlo hlelnSCnmlQL WTlLoS OI aer
Sight Seeing in Berlin.
An Interesting Description of a Visit to
Royal Museums.
Miss Marie Kleinschmidt, daughter of
ex-Mayor T. Fl. Kleinschmidt, is now in
Berlin pursuing the study of arts and Ian
guages and finishing her education. She
has written several very interesting letters
home descriptive of her experiences in
Germany, and from the nature of the
epistles it is evident she is profting by her
soourn abroad. From her last letter to
her father we are permitted to make the
following interesting extracts:
BERLIN, Oct. Dist, 1889.-Saturday was
our morning to visit and we went to the
KonigliChes Museum, of which l have
spoken before. A number CT rooms In the
front part of the building called THE Gal
lery of Antiquities" contain ancient sculp-
ture. 1t (the gallery is chiefly indebted
for it's origin to Frederick the Great who
purchased at Rome the collection of Cardi-
nal Polignac. Until quite recently most of
its contents were of minor merit, but the
purchasing of the SaburOw collection OF
Attic sculptures in 1884 has placed the
gallery on quite different foOtiog.
The arrangement of rooms begins with
| the Rotunda, a large circular hall covered
with glass. Between the columns support
ing the gallery are several ancient statues;
| the most celebrated are Amazon" and
Juno" Above is the Raphael tapestry.
This Rotunda also,
CONTAINS TWO FRIEZES
| from the Altar of Zeus on the Acropolis OF
Pergamus discovered by Herr Hermann in
1S79-S0. The exquisite reliefs formed a
huge altar to Zeus, probably erected by
Eumenes H., about 10 B. c., in honor OF
| his decisive victory over the Gauls before
the gates of Pergamus. The large friezes
with fsures of colossal size adorn the
exterior of the altar, and represents the
triumph OF the GODS led by Zeus and Athe-
ne, over the giants. About thirds of
this has been found. The smaller and
more pleasing reliets, from the interior OF
the altar, consist of scenes from the history
of Telephus, the local hero of Pergamus.
Although some of the figures are not COM
plete, one can tell by the others what the
figures ought to be. 1t is said that this
frieze has mastery of execution which no
other frieze of its size possesses. The other
parts of the frieze are temporarily exhib-
tied in the Hall of the Heroes, which we
next enter.
The next important statue is Praying
Boy in bronze, supposed to be from the
second or third century, and purchased by
Frederick the Great for this museum. 1t
was long considered the finest work in the
museum 1t underwent restoration In
France in the seventeenth century, and 1t
is not known if this is exactly like the
original. The Dancing Girl is also very
celebrated. 1t is a Greek work OF the time
of the DiadOchi or successors of Alexander.
Tie original is in Paris. The statue OF a
boy in bronze, found in the bed OF the
Rhine, near Xantan, is very famous.
From this room one goes into
THE RESTORING ROOM,
where men are at work fixing and putting
statues together, and repairing reliefs founo
in Rome and other places There are also
the Etrusian aad Greek cabinets, but there
is not anything of very much importance
in either of these that l have seen.
The Roman Saloon, next entered
contains statues and busts OF tht
latter period of the republic and empire
A very fine relief is an Alto relief OF thu
siege of a seaport town. There is also al
alabaster bust of Scipio Africanus and 1
statue of julius Cesar Then the mex
room reached contains the medi4va
Renaissance sculptures The collection o
works of the Italian Renaissance in marble
bronze, terra Gotta aod painted stuccO Il
now unequalled out of italy save at th'
South KensingtOn museum and the Louvre
A very famous and celebrated statue Ii
that by Michael Angelo of John the Bap
. tist when boy. 1t was bought In 1877
for 100000 m There is also in this section
a cabinet of coins Containing 200, 900 speci
mems, of which about 10000 are ancient, 30,
600 Greek and $4,000 Roman. All that
have explained so far is in what is callet
the Old Museum. Now comes the New
Ascending flight of stairs, one arrives OF
the first floor of the New, which is entirel.
occupied by the very valuable and exten
sive collection of casts arranged into twelv
saloons. This collection has been so muci
enriched during the last few years that l
will be necessary to erect new building
tor it. The gallery of the North Cour
, contains casts OF the most ancient works
Assyrian reliefs, early Greek statues ant
reliefs and Metop8 friezes, etc. The Greel
, saloon contains tympanum groups iron
the Temple of Minerva at Aggina, tn
originals of which are in Munich; tym
panurn groups aud frieze from the Parthe
non by Phidias Around the ceiling ar
ten paintings representing different view
of Greece. The other saloons are yer
popular, l don't know very mucl
about them. There is an art gallery there
too. but Aunt --hasn't taken q
through it yet 1 hope you won't tire
, such a letter, but am trying to tell you
what we saw and what Mics --- an
, myself are studying.
THE GREAT TAPESTRY.
+ mentioned that the upper walls of th
rotunda are hung with the celebrate
= tapestry. This was woven at Brussels II
: Henry the Will in 1915 and 1916 frol
I designs by Raphael. 1t is a repetition
q the famous tapestry in the Vatican I
h Rome. It was once in the possession
. Emperor Charles l., then in that of tt
1 Duke of Alva, and was purchased
q Frederick William w. in 1874. The sui
Il iects are from the Acts of the Apostles an
. the Life of Christ. The first, death
o Ananias; the second, Christ giving Pet
g the keys of Heaven; tue third, Paul ar
, Barnabas at Lystra; the fourth, the Screen
J. Elymas struck with blindness; the ift
conversion of St. Paul; the sixth, Pa
preaching at Athens; the seventh, stonir
of st. Stephen; the eighth, miraculo1
70 draught of fishes; the ninth, Peter ar
Paul healing the lame man. The tent
10 Paul in prison at Phillippi, has unfo