Rambles in sunny Spain . ht. We saw the stall in which Philip II. sat near his brothermonks, where he is said to have received the tidings of the battle ofLepanto and the destruction of the Armada, — in both cases withoutchancre of countenance. In an anteroom is the famous and beau-tiful image of Our Lord Crucified, in Carrara marble, the work ofCellini, bearing the inscription : Benvenutus Zelinus, Civis Floren-tinus facebat, 1562. It is a matter of tradition that this pricelesscrucifix, with its life-size Christ, was brought across Spain, from thecoast to the Escorial, upon mens shoulders. A
Rambles in sunny Spain . ht. We saw the stall in which Philip II. sat near his brothermonks, where he is said to have received the tidings of the battle ofLepanto and the destruction of the Armada, — in both cases withoutchancre of countenance. In an anteroom is the famous and beau-tiful image of Our Lord Crucified, in Carrara marble, the work ofCellini, bearing the inscription : Benvenutus Zelinus, Civis Floren-tinus facebat, 1562. It is a matter of tradition that this pricelesscrucifix, with its life-size Christ, was brought across Spain, from thecoast to the Escorial, upon mens shoulders. Another ornament ofthe choir is a crystal chandelier, hanging near the facistole, which IN THE EIGHTH WOXDER OF THE WORLD. 91 latter, though very ponderous, is turned by the slightest exertion ofones strength. The one room of the buildings superior to all the rest, in the estima-tion of some of us, was the sacristia, one hundred and eight feet longand thirty-two feet wide, with fine frescos on its ceiling and celebrated. PHiLir 11. paintings on its walls. These paintings include Riberas, Zurbarans,Guido Renis, Titians, Tintorettos. The largest, and in some respectsthe grandest, was a Last Supper by Tintoretto. A magnificent col-lection is this, even though presenting only the fragments of what itonce was, the most valuable having been taken to Madrid. 92 RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN. It will be wearisome to describe all the treasures of this vastagglomeration of buildings. Let us merely mention the palace, withits suites of rooms hung with glorious tapestries, and with walls andfloors inlaid with precious woods from America. Many of the tapes-tries were made at the royal factories of Madrid, after designs by thegreat Goya and others; but one hundred and sixty were from Flanders,fabricated after designs by Teniers. The rooms hung with these tapes-tries, which were mostly bright and cheering in tone and composition,were the bright spots in the gloomy pile ; but these were of a laterda
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