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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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GROTTO OF THE NYMPH EGERIA. The Vatican contains a grand museum, extensive galleries ofantiquities, both Christian and pagan, and there is no end to thestatuary, bronzes, vases etc. The hanging works of art, includingthe pictures, would, I think, cover the entire wall of China. Here isto be found every variety of paintings from the picture executed bythe boy who first held a brush, up to the work of the most renownedartists. As in other celebrated galleries there are to be seen—orrather not to be seen—many old pictures, so old and dingy thatpains come into ones back while bending this way and that, to sostrike the light that some part of the pictures may be discernible, A LETTER FROM ROME. 47 • and your back becomes stiff from craning and twisting about for the same purpose; all of which is hard labor without compensation. A delightful home the good Pope has in the Vatican, surrounded as he is by everything desirable that art, talent and money can collect
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and deposit for mans delectation. His body guard and servingattaches are dressed in striped suits of yellow, and as they movebusily hither and thither they give the necessary color and life to themassive stone buildings. An extensive space is occupied bv the 472 THE OPEN COURT. workers in mosaic; some of whom are employed in cutting out littlesquare pieces from stone, or shell or glass; others are at work inthe manufacture of the opaque glass or smalts from which the littlepieces are taken; in glass alone they produce twenty-five thousand ...^ J%sM^- \^M§^ *I9^ •,-^*-^:J^^51«^^ ^--ai^r . .... £^^f^^ .1 t %^-; shades. In different rooms and alcoves the artists are at workcementing in place these toy bits of glass and stone, often workingon the same subject for a very long time; several pieces done forthe church of St. Peters represents the work of twenty years each.The origin of the art is unknown and is past finding out, which. A LETTER FROM ROME. 473 alas, goes to show that even

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