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Fuhrer" of the "Munchener Kunstler-
Genossenschaft" to telegraph to Mr.
laurent regarding the price, and after
some correspondence with him, 1 sue
ceeded In purchasing the picture for 10,
900 Lire $1,000.
The Picture "La ParaboIa.-
The picture is called La Parabola''
c'The Parable'O. The Germans called
1t "Lebensbrucke" ("Bridge of Life'O. 1t
is Diptyeh, two panels in one frame,
about twenty-five feet long. The artist
In letter to me dated Venice March
Is, describes it as follows:
My picture, La Parabola' is the rep
resentation of human life and 1 have de-
Veloped the subject in this way: The
race towards pleasure, until clouds of
weighty thoughts and sorrows no longer
come to disturb the serenity of the young
soul, and the after descent from the
beautiful hight already reached, when
sorrow with its cruel hand has severed
the smiles and Illusions that enliven the
spring of life. And as love is the first.
hercest and most powerful of all our
passions, and We, ignorant of its sor-
rows, run after it with the thoughtless
impulse of those who in human affairs
see only the smiling side, 1 have de-
termined to develope the first part Of my
'Parabola' with lively feast in which
two young men invite the gay crowd of
girls to participate in songs and smiles
of Joy At the door of the house in which
this feast appears to take place, there
Is one of these young men who imprints
a kiss on the cheeks of girls about to
cross the threshold. He represents Love.
After fhis Il -
ready thoughtful and sad, passing be-
hind the window unfolding a flower; this
episode means that the flower of her vir-
gin younth is already touched and bound
to fade.
Thus ends the first part of the Diptych
l imagined the second part at the door
of a church because inside poor suffer-
ing souls go to seek relief from their
sadness and rnisfortunes.
Then. as in the first part of the
Diptyeh, one could see the man repre-
senting Love. Here, one can see the
man, who, clad in priestly garments, rep
resents Faith, and accomplishes his
pious, humanitarian office, escortng and
consoling discouraged souls to their last
abode. In the two parts IF the Diptyeh
( there are two similar res, so that
they appear to oe the same person, a
fact which is Immediately perceived.
These two figures are the Symbol of
Wisdom, and really in the first part of
the Diptych, while all other girls run joy
fully to the feast, this figure comes walk
ing in an opposite direction and looks
with an air of commiseration on all that
thoughtlessness and all those illusions
that pass and repass before his eyes
And in the second part while all the other
figures are burdened with sorrow, he
walks with his head erect, or, at least,
resigned to the sadness of his destiny"
A Prize for the Academy.
laurent won the prince Umberto
prize at the Milan Exposition; this prize
Italian artists value more than any 9TH
err. The Telfair Academy of Arts and
Sciences has secured a prize of which
the management and members of the
Historical Society may well be
proud. and congratulated in their
possession of so charming a
picture which cannot fail to become a
great favorite with the public.
Having made the necessary arrange
ments with the Wetch Transport Com
pany to pack and forward the painting
to Savannah, / left Munich well pleased,
travelling by the Bremen Pass into Italy.
/ had most agreeable interview with
refined and charming personality with
great versatility in his profession. He
had Just finished plans for a new Fish
Market Building which has since been
unanimously accepted by the municipali-
ty of that city and is now being built.
/ saw at his studio large canvas of
great merit, of which I wish to speak
some time later on 10 the board of man.
ayers of the academy.
| now FASTENED on to Rome, where I
had planned to make my first studies for
the series of panel pictures, for which,
this. my fifth trip abroad for the academy
was principally made.
The "Via Apia Ancitata," the well
known military road from Rome to Brin-
dist, built by the censor Appius Claudius
Caecus as far as Capua and afterwards
extended to the latter place, for a num-
Der OF miles outside the city, is skirted
by a succession of tombs, which have
been excavated, among them the pictur-
esoue tomb OF Caecilia Metella. From
this point on q most magnificent prospect
of the Campagna and the Alban noun
tains, beyond which rise the more dis
tant Sabine mountains in the middle-dis-
lance the Aqua Marcia and the Aqua
Claudia, Tivoli and Frescati glimmering
in autumn hues on distant hillsides is
unfolded to the beholder's eye.
In an Italian Fort.
To the right of this road and in the
city's limits are the ruins of the Termae
Caracaila ("Baths of Caracalla'D in which
were found the "Toro Farnese." the Flo
RAJ and the "Farnese Hercules" all in
the Naples Museum. There are still sew
eraI Torsos of Hermes preserved
I'm these magnificent halls with
their rich, mosaic floors. The sur
rounding country has given up many a
treasure of the ancient sculptor's chisel
10 the excavator's spade which now grace
princely collections. This scene appeared
10 me especially well adapted for one of
our panels, and on this spot l began my
first study on bright october morning.
/ had scarcely planted myself under my
umbrella and fairly begun my work when
an officer of the Italian army with his
aid approached me, coming from a nearby
Fort on my left. one Of a system of de-
Tense around the city Of Rome. He ac-
eosted me By asking n I had permesso
- .,.,,,t saiorl from the commandment OF