Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . he semicircularchoir he rests under a plain marble slab. He had willed that heshould be buried where all the congregation might see his tomband pray for his soul. Clement had given him over /2000 ayear, which sum the good Cardinal spent on the poor of and unostentatious in his habits, he used to dine dailywith the monks of his order in their refectory in the Monasteryof S. Sabina. The Italians called him Ovjrd di Norfohii/— atleast so his name appears on an engraving representing himsuperintending the roasting of an ox for the
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . he semicircularchoir he rests under a plain marble slab. He had willed that heshould be buried where all the congregation might see his tomband pray for his soul. Clement had given him over /2000 ayear, which sum the good Cardinal spent on the poor of and unostentatious in his habits, he used to dine dailywith the monks of his order in their refectory in the Monasteryof S. Sabina. The Italians called him Ovjrd di Norfohii/— atleast so his name appears on an engraving representing himsuperintending the roasting of an ox for the Romans, in cele-bration of the Old Pretenders birthday. This portrait is byCarlo Maratti, and was given to a Lord Carlisle by CardinalOttobuoni. But enough of family portraits. We now pass into a square room, which is called the Museum,owing to the antiquities it contains — or rather contained, for thecontents of this room have been removed ; among these the mostinteresting is a large marble altar, which was brought from Delphi Castle Ibowarb 113. GRASS TERRACES AT CASTLE HOWARD by Nelson, who presented it to the fifth Earl. There are manymarbles and bronzes here ; the most curious is a statuette in giltbronze of Hercules, which was dug up in Cumberland. From the Museum one looks along the vista of rooms whichface the Garden on the south front — a vista of three hundredfeet of rooms, rich withpictures and art ob-jects. The collectionof paintings is one ofthe first in England,and many of the bestwere in the famousOrleans collection. Inthese rooms are, orwere — for the famousMabuse of The WiseMens Offering and the superb little Giorgione of a knight andhis squire have been taken to Naworth — some world-famouspaintings : to wit, the portrait of Snyders by his friend Van Dyck(one of the greatest portraits of the world — its companion, theartists wife, is, or was, at Warwick Castle),—and the ThreeMarys (the Entombment), by Annibale Caracci ; besides theseis a room ful
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