. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. antiquities, I knew, had been transportedto Vienna in 1895: this further stripping would leavethe historic place with naught but the valueless por-tion of its old furniture, and the frescoes on the walls;it was saddening, — and a proof of the Archdukesdecision to return here no more. I asked if he werehere now, and learned that only his orders had was a disappointment which no offers of mine— strange to say — had any success in overcoming;and I trust that other travelers will be more three fine portraits on canvas by
. Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia. antiquities, I knew, had been transportedto Vienna in 1895: this further stripping would leavethe historic place with naught but the valueless por-tion of its old furniture, and the frescoes on the walls;it was saddening, — and a proof of the Archdukesdecision to return here no more. I asked if he werehere now, and learned that only his orders had was a disappointment which no offers of mine— strange to say — had any success in overcoming;and I trust that other travelers will be more three fine portraits on canvas by Paolo Veronesemay have vanished, but his large ceiling-painting willremain, which covers one of the royal suite of five grandsalons; these are otherwise decorated by a magnificentseries of frescoes by Zelotti, depicting the achieve-ments and the glorification of the Obizzi; and in theprivate chapel, or Oratorio di S. Michele, there shouldremain a number of good pictures by the Venetianschool of the later cinquecento. — But though I failed. ARQUA. A PEASANTS HOUSE.
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