The Open court . he work of Canova, greatest of all sculptorsliving or dead. His model, formerly an occupant of this villa, wasPauline, wife of Camillo Borghese and sister of Napoleon. She wasa modest and beautiful woman, and report says that when somesociety ladies expressed their holy horror that she should have posedwithout clothing, she innocently replied, Why. the room waswarm. 470 THE OPEN COURT. Probably no other city is so frequented by tourists and trav-elers. We daily meet Americans and Europeans who are enthu-siastic over what they have seen and eagerly expectant of the future. It w
The Open court . he work of Canova, greatest of all sculptorsliving or dead. His model, formerly an occupant of this villa, wasPauline, wife of Camillo Borghese and sister of Napoleon. She wasa modest and beautiful woman, and report says that when somesociety ladies expressed their holy horror that she should have posedwithout clothing, she innocently replied, Why. the room waswarm. 470 THE OPEN COURT. Probably no other city is so frequented by tourists and trav-elers. We daily meet Americans and Europeans who are enthu-siastic over what they have seen and eagerly expectant of the future. It would require a lifetime to familiarize oneself with the Vati-can, the palace of the Pope; it is the great storehouse of knowledgeand of art. It is said to contain thousands of apartments, some ofwhich are of great beauty, such as the Sistine Chapel, which isdecorated by Raphael, Giulio, Romano and their scholars. Thelibrary is large and one of the finest in the world, and the space itoccupies exquisite in GROTTO OF THE NYMPH EGERIA. The Vatican contains a grand museum, extensive galleries ofantiquities, both Christian and pagan, and there is no end to thestatuary, bronzes, vases etc. The hanging works of art, includingthe pictures, would, I think, cover the entire wall of China. Here isto be found every variety of paintings from the picture executed bythe boy who first held a brush, up to the work of the most renownedartists. As in other celebrated galleries there are to be seen—orrather not to be seen—many old pictures, so old and dingy thatpains come into ones back while bending this way and that, to sostrike the light that some part of the pictures may be discernible, A LETTER FROM ROME. 47 • and your back becomes stiff from craning and twisting about for the same purpose; all of which is hard labor without compensation. A delightful home the good Pope has in the Vatican, surrounded as he is by everything desirable that art, talent and money can collect
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