The New York herald., 1922-11-05

often. He has sat for five artists
and the result in some cases has not been
satisfactory to him. This in part accounts
for his delay in granting sittings TO an
American artist, Arnolfo Muller-U Ury, who
went to Rome in September charged with
a double commission and apparently with
every arrangement made before hand. But
this artist, by birth an Italians Swiss, hap
of painters of the Pope.
Mr.. MullerUry, although kept waiting
ten days before the Pope gave him an ap-
pointment, mastered his nervous fear and
waited patiently, being constantly as
sured by Monsignor O'Hearn, rector of the
American College in Rome by the Maestro
di Camera of the Pope's household and by
Monsignor Caccia, major domo of the
palace that the Pope made no positive
objection but kept reiterating when re-
minded of the waiting artist: Yes, yes
1 know, 1 will see''
''The delay worried me-" the artist said
when he returned bringing not one but two
portraits of His Holiness, because 1 knew
it would be necessary to compress within
a few weeks work that should occupy six
months. Besides the Pope's promise to sit
for me, which he had made to Monsignor
O'Hearn, there was to be noted in my
favor that l had already painted portraits
of his two predecessors and these pictures
he must know. But all turned out hap
PLY: | reached Rome on September /
waited until September II, and left Rome
with my two precious canvases on Oc-
tober IL. But 1 had painted, painted
painted every daylight moment of the in
terim
1T did not take long to experience a
feeling of ease in the presence of this Dig
nified but amiable and democratic person
age, after he had shown some interest in
hi. portrait, which he did on the second
day of our sittings. And the Pope ex-
plained the reason of this early indif-
ference.
I feel said His Holiness, that 1 am
still too young a Pope to have so many like
nesses of me given to the world"
Simple modest, never relaxing in
dignity but also never austere, talking cas-
fly on every sort of subject but always
with thoughtful reserve and with Difference
TO the opinions of others, my great sitter
impressed me as being not only admi-
rable but amazing.
"Filled with enthusiasm, l longed to
be able to give him to posterity in a pie
ture as real as that Pope Julius in the
Pitt, painted by Raphael, one of the few
I s1o
self for this grandiose ambition, knowing as
1 do my own quality ard that my masters
are not Raphael and his school but rather
Velasquez, Titan and Franz Halls. But ii
does painter no harm to feel a great ad-
miration for his subject.
The Pope sent for me one morning to
come to his library where he wished the
little difference of opinion. There were
three great windows in this room with
cross lights which promised disaster while
in the adjoining reception room. commonly
called the throne room, there was only
one great window. I wished to paint him
there
The Pope yielded at once and said
You shall choose also the robes in
which you wish to paint me- Matters are
now in your hands,
'As aspired to paint him as the august
Pope and again in less formal way
begged him TO wear for the first picture
what was customary in his reception OF
ambassadors. In this picture you see HIM
therefore in white with a white baretta
and d shoulder cape of violet toned velvet
On his right hand, holding an encyclical