New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14
FOR Art IN PITTSBURG.
What the Nc5c!y Completed CarRe-
gie Institute PrOrideS.

Pittsburg April 1.-THE Carnegie Institute,
which was dedicated here to-day and officially
turned over the city of Pittsburg by Andrew
Carnegie, who built and endowed it at a cost up
to date of $23.600G00. U.s to-day for the first
time thrown open to he public, which had
watched its progress from! the outside for long
time, but had never before been privileged to in
spect all of the interior.
A great han of architecture has been provided
by the trustees In this hall has been arranged
a group of architectural casts representing some
of the great buildings and temples of antiquity,
and including noble specimens of the Roman
esquc ana Renaissance periods. The chief pur-
pose of the institution, dedicated, it is to
the education and inspiration of the people. has
been kept stoadfasty in view Of the selection of
the collection which occupies the central portion
OF the hall Of architecture Comparatively few
casts. therefore have been placed within the
columns which surround the hall, and these
have been arranged, in far as the arbitrary
dimensions Of the works would permit in a sin
gle group OF imposing ana beautiful objects.
The total number OF casts in this central group
is only seventeen, hut most of them are of un-
usual SIZE. tn largest being eightysiX feet long
and thirty-slx fee; high. Without the columns
surrounding The hail under the balcony a much
larger number If architectural casts will be in
stalled in chronological order. beginning with
the earliest period and ending with the Renais-
sance Tho collection is thus arranged not only
for the instruction and pleasure Of the people.
but + the g. lu alton Of students Of art well.
The hal devoted 70 statuary casts is Doric in
charactor. Tho columns. piIasters and pIinths
being constructed of Pyntclic marble. The fricze
beneath tie shyHsh; is composed of reproduc-
tons OF the Parthenon frieze. placed at the
heigh; Of tn original In this han are assem-
bled roIr ductio.s ~ Inany Of the master picces
of Greek Roman ana Egyptian statuary.
The objects reproductions in facsimile OF
statues. austs and various articles found in the
eighteenth and ..netecntn centuries on the sites
of the ancient -!ti,s of Herculaucum. Pompeii
and Sjat.t.. and r. served in the National Mu-
scum. Naples Tho total number of objects In
this collection is 3l5.
The greatest accomplishment; OF the Carnegie
Institute. however. is thought by many 10 be thu
permanent collection OF the Carnegie Art Gal
lcrics. II is upt yet a large collection. II en-
braces only some sc.cnty or eighty canvases.
but fin, START has been made Many OF the
most eminent renters o. the day. both Ameri-
can ana European. are represented in this col
lection.
The first exhibition undo- tho direction OF the
department # Glc arts held in the autumn
OF 1896. Until that time annual international
exhibition had been held in this country. al
though desultory contributions from European
artists appeared in several of the American ex-
hibitons IL may be said, therefore, that the
Carnegie Institute established the first interna-
tonal exhibition IN America The prize winners
b this years exhibition are published herewith.