The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-16


 Palaces Once Owned by Prosecutors o
 Their Ancestors.
 Dresden, Feb. 2S, 1895,
 To tho Editor of the JoURNAu AND COURIER
 can imagine no greater delight than to visit Venice and while there to fre- quently drop into the academy and study the glorious pictures which are to be seen in the many rooms and corri- dors. The Academic della Belle Arti
 is situated on the Grand canal, and is five minutes distance from our hotel The gallery chiefly contains pictures of Venetian masters and here one can de- light himself in the works of Tintoretto, Paul Veronese, Giovanni Bellini, and Titian to his hearts content. Room af- ter room is rich in the accumulated treasures of those great masters of Ital- ian art. One of the most celebrated paintings in the collection of the aead- emy is Titian's Presentation, mas terpiece of that great artist, and a pie ture very familiar to very many of your readers. Carpaccios Cure Of a Lunatic," with the old wooden Rialto in the background, is a painting of great merit.
 Jesus at the Feast, in the House of Levi" magnificent work which was executed in 1878, and a masterpiece of the incomparable Paul Veronese, is a picture which the beholder never can forget for it's impression upon the mind is indelible. "Carpaccio's'' "Nine Scenes in the Legend of St. Ursula" painted in 14q2 is a rare work of art and adm;ra- ble ill it's perspective. Titian's greatest masterpiece is the gern of the collec- tion. It is the Assumption" which was painted in 1516; it formerly hung over the high altar in the "F'rari," an old thirteenth century church, and one of the most celebrated in Venice. This canvas is 221s feet by 12 feet, and is one of the most highly prized n'2+rres in the world "The life-like semblance of nature, and the marvellous fear, de- votion, wonder and rapture that are ex- pressed raise Titan to a rank as high as that held by Raphael and M. An gelo." "St. Mark Releasing Slave" Ga picture IA feet by Il feet) is a master piece of Titian's, and is considered to be one of the most wonderful pictures in the world. Giovanni Bellinnt's Ma donna Enthroned," is one of his finest works and is especially admired by all who visit the gallery. Basaiti's Gall of the Sons of Zebedee," painted in 1510 is a grand painting deserving special at tention. A picture which particularly touched me, and which shall recollect as long as I can reniember Venice itself, was an "Entombment," by Titan. That great artist was in the act of painting this picture when he was seized with the plague, he died leaving this picture but partially completed; he was then in his ninety-ninth year. The work was completed by Palmer Gio- vane i'm 1876, and all this isi recorded on the picture itself. What a grand thing 1t was that Titan was permitted to labor to such good old age; thing of it, eighty years of constant work! Thinking of this I ask myself what would not Raphael have accomplished had he lived as long as Titan? He was cut off in his thirty-second year having wonderful results, in al most numberless pictures. How much richer the world would have been had Raphael lived to a grand old age.
 To fully appreciate the academy one | must visit it often, thus familiarizing | oneself with the rare pictures which | are treasured there. Tn one of the rooms we note Canova's chisel, and near it is and urn containing the right hand of | that great sculptor. The same room contains a number of small works of | Titan, and numerous old drawings of | ''Leonardo da Vinci" Here is the orig inal model of Hercules and Lich as also Dd6Qeiluo ctlIN lSciI tAGCulCN Dy Sct- nova in his twenty-drst year, and the time will not allow me, to mention the numerous works of art contained in the academy.
 As we leave this delightful place, let us pass down to the custom house, where the Grand canal commences, as 1t were, and then let us quietly and slowly row the whole length of the Grand canal This is the great watery of Venice; it is two miles ong and two hundred feet wide It is he street CD of the ancient aristocracy of the old city, and in those old days t must have been a place of great mag which Is plainly visible from he aspect of grandeur which the pal aces even at this day present. After leaving the old custom house behind us, we pass the grand palaces and "Emo-Treves," build ngs of great magnificence in the olden imes. The palaces Corner della Ca 4rande," and "Cavalli," are specially and to judge from their ma estic appearance at the present day, must have been sumptuous and regal
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