Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-01-27

informed that nothing produced
since even approximates them in
perfection. There seemed to be
miles of stone and marble and
bronze and mosaic gathered from all
| the world.
The picture galleries were crowd
} ed with choice canvases from the
brushes of the worlds great painters.
In ore room were works of Raphael,
Leonardo da Vinci, Corregio, Rubens,
Rembrandt and Veronese. Da
Vlnci's "Mona Lisa" has exasperated
and the expression has evaded more
modern painters than has any other
noted portrait He spent four years
upon it and then left it unfinished.
Raphael's madonna and Child with
ST. john is justly regarded as one
of the great treasures Of the gallery.
One large room is devoted to the
works of Rubens and his school,
another to those Of Van Dyk, the
master portrait painter. Murillo's
paintings were strong favorites with
me, his immaculate Conception is
a gem in point of coloring and ex-
preston. Of the modern painters,
Corot, Troyan, Rousseau, Vernet and
others of the French school, are we'll
represented. We spent many de-
lightful hours in the Louvre. can
not resist speaking of an act of van
dalism perpetrated by some IMAM
from Cooks, an act which has made
artistic blood boil all over France.
He wrote his name on the canvas CT
one of Rembrandt most celebrated
paintings and tried to do likewise
with a second, These two paintings
are valued at over million francs!
+ No wonder they are suspicious of
the average visitor to the gallery.
We spent little time in and
about Notre Dame, that gem Of
Gothic architecture. The three rose
windows with glass over seven hum
dred years old, are the finest we
have seen. The cathedral, though
small, Is a perfect harmony of arch
lecture In one Of the chapels we
saw the stores of precious stones and
other articles of rare value gathered
during the last six hundred years.
Here we saw the vestments worn at
the coronation Of Napoleon First.
How gin gerly did Pope Plus start to
put on that crown-those years of
luxurious but not delightful i'm
prisonment at Fontainnbleau did
make the task more welcome-and
how characteristic of the great and
terrible Emperor when he snatched
the crown and put it upon himself !!
All over the beautiful church we
saw evidences Of the civil volcano
which made Paris reek with blood
and horror.
One of the very interesting sights
of Paris is st. Cnapelle. This
Gothic chapel was erected in 124S
for the reception of certain relics
supposed TO base been brought from
the Holy Land. 1t Is certainly the
gem of all the chapels We have seen.
L. is now scarcely ever used, one
service only being held each year.
The windows, sof which there are
ffteen-l3 feet by ~ feet eacb-are
filled with exq lisite stained glass,
most of it being very old. The walls
and pillars are beautifully frescoed
and the floor is Of the finest mosaic.
The whole appearance of the upper
chapel in the sunlight is of quiet and
majestic beauty and harmony.
Leaving the chapel we entered the
Palace of Justice, once used for royal
apartments, but now occupied by
the various criminal courts. We
were shown the old rooms once used
by Napoleon, we sat in Napoleon's
chair and also in the chair used by
the first president of parliament.
Our guide also stealthily showed US
the book containing the record of
divorce from Josephine.
In this palace is the old Conciergerie
or prison, famous during the time of
the revolution. Here Marie Anton.