Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . slecture-rooms and a library. There is also here a good collectionof the rocks and minerals of Piedmont,which can be seen on application. Thepalace stands near the Public Gardenand the Botanical Garden. MUSEUMS AND PICTURE GALLERIES. Palazzo della Beale Accademia delleScienze, a large building, formerly theJesuit Coll
Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy : comprising Turin, Milan, Pavia, Cremona the Italian lakes, Bergamo, Brescia, Verona, Mantua, Vicenza, Padua, Venice, Ferrara, Bologna, Ravenna, Rimini, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Genoa, the Riviera, and the intermediate towns and routes . slecture-rooms and a library. There is also here a good collectionof the rocks and minerals of Piedmont,which can be seen on application. Thepalace stands near the Public Gardenand the Botanical Garden. MUSEUMS AND PICTURE GALLERIES. Palazzo della Beale Accademia delleScienze, a large building, formerly theJesuit College, designed by Guarini,!<i7S, and intended to have been coatedwith stucco. It stands in the street ofthe same name at the corner of thePiazza Carignano. Besides a goodlibrary (40,0u0 vols.) belonging to thisacademy, it contains the Pinacoteca, orRoyal Gallery of Paintings; the Mu-seum of Antiquities; and the Museumof Natural History. The entrance isin the Via dell Accademia. All thecollections are open on Sundays from!) to 1, on other days from 9 to 4, ex- .V. ttah/.—1877. cept on certain festivals and 1 fr. The *Pinacoteca, or Royal Galleryof Paintings (catalogue 11 fr.), w;isformed by King Carlo Alberto withpictures scattered over the different. royal residences, and by some import-ant purchases from Genoa. Originallyplaced in the state apartments of thePalazzo Madarna, it was removed in1867 into a suite of 15 rooms, fitted upfor the purpose, on the second floor, butabout 100 pictures have been put asidefor want of room. On each picture isc 18 Boute 1.—Turin : Pinacoteca. an inscription with the artists name,and the name of the school. The Eoyal Gallery has been illus-trated in Marquis Roberto Azeglioswork, La Real Galleria di was succeeded in thp post of directorby his brother, Massimo Azeglio (); as an artist, writer, and states-man, one of the most brilliant orna-ments of regenerated Italy. On the great stairs hang two largeexamp
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