The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . THE OPEN SEA. WalterL. Dean {U. S.). FINE ARTS. 349 of Comparative Sculpture, in the Trocadero Palace In BASiivivisSA. Joseph Wemkler {France). These casts show portions of the facades of churches and cathedrals,grand portals, beautiful galleries, altars, statues, columns, capitals. OD FINE ARTS. etc. They are as perfect as the highest degree of French art andskill can make them, even the time-worn appearance of the originalsbeing faithfully reproduced. These replicas are not reduced Insize, and consequently some of them are very large;

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The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . THE OPEN SEA. WalterL. Dean {U. S.). FINE ARTS. 349 of Comparative Sculpture, in the Trocadero Palace In BASiivivisSA. Joseph Wemkler {France). These casts show portions of the facades of churches and cathedrals,grand portals, beautiful galleries, altars, statues, columns, capitals. OD FINE ARTS. etc. They are as perfect as the highest degree of French art andskill can make them, even the time-worn appearance of the originalsbeing faithfully reproduced. These replicas are not reduced Insize, and consequently some of them are very large; one, 41 x 24feet, shows a portion of the Church of St. Giles; one, 20 x 36 feet,is from the gallery of Limoges Cathedral; one from the Portal ofthe Virgin, from Notre Dame, Paris, is 18 x 25 feet, etc. The architecture and sculp-tures represented be-gin with the art era ofthe twelfth century,and are followed downto the seventeenthcentury era continu-ously, the exampleschosen as follows:The Cathedrals ofChartres and Bouro^es(i2th) ; Paris, Rhelms,Amiens, Lyons, RouenandLaon (13th) ; Bor-deaux, Nantes andSens (14th) ; Mans(15th); Beauvals, Li-moges and Tour

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