Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . um. Admission, see p. 38. — The Official Guide to the Old and NewMuseums (50 pf.; 12th edit., 1902) and also Special Catalogues andPhotographs may be bought in the Hall of the Heroes (p. 74). The -Old Museum (PL E, 26), an admirable building inthe Greek style, 285 ft. long, 175 ft. wide, and 62 ft. high, with anIonic portico of eighteen columns, and approached by a broad flightof steps, was erected by Schinkel in 1824-28. The raised centralpart of the structure is adorned with colossal groups in bronze: infront, the Horse Tamers of the Piazza
Berlin and its environs; handbook for travellers . um. Admission, see p. 38. — The Official Guide to the Old and NewMuseums (50 pf.; 12th edit., 1902) and also Special Catalogues andPhotographs may be bought in the Hall of the Heroes (p. 74). The -Old Museum (PL E, 26), an admirable building inthe Greek style, 285 ft. long, 175 ft. wide, and 62 ft. high, with anIonic portico of eighteen columns, and approached by a broad flightof steps, was erected by Schinkel in 1824-28. The raised centralpart of the structure is adorned with colossal groups in bronze: infront, the Horse Tamers of the Piazza del Quirinale at Eome, copiesby Tieck; at the back, Pegasus tamed and refreshed by the Horse,by Schievelbein and Hagen. The steps also are flanked by two largegroups in bronze: right, Amazon on horseback, defending herselfagainst a tiger, by Kiss; left, Youth on horseback, launching aspear at a lion, by A. Wolff. The Vestibule contains marble statues of German artists and con-noisseurs: to the right of the entrance are those of Rauch (d. 1857 .. •Vra^rusTMHfcefc-GeogfBsta*. Leipzig Antique Sculptures. BERLIN. Section 3. 73 by Drake, Cornelius (d. 1867), by Calandrelli, G. W. von Knobels-doiff(d. 1753), by Karl Begas the Younger, Schliiter (d. 1714), byWiese, and Winckelmann (d. 1768), by Wicbmann; to the leftthose otSchinkel (d. 1841), by Tieck (copy), Ot fried Milller (d. 1840),byTondeur, Chodowiecli (d. 1801), by Otto, Car stem (d. 1798),by Janensch, and G. Schadow (d. 1850), by Hagen. The frescoes,designed by SchinJcel, and executed under the direction of Cor-nelius, represent (on the left) the development of the world fromchaos, and (on the right) the progress of human culture. (Theoriginal designs, in the Schinkel Museum, p. 182, with a key attached,afford more satisfaction.) — From the vestibule, a door leads to tbefirst floor of the Museum (see below). The Upper Vestibule, to which a double staircase ascends, isadorned with a copy of the celebrated antique Warwick
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