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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
Perugino Ghirlandajo, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Titian,
Bellini, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, and Domenichino,
keep watch and ward,—an immortal band, standing around
the treasury of their works, and ennobling with a poetic
thought the broad parapet of the Pinakothek.
We ascend a low flight of steps guarded by lions couchant;
the tall portal opens as by magic, and we stand in the
presence of a giant—a mild giant clad in the blue livery of
the Bavarian court: a broad crimson and white band crosses
the gigantic breast, huge top-boots adorn the gigantic legs,
a peaceful smile beams over a placid giant face,—the cele-
brated giant porter of the Pinakothek nods us a morning
greeting, and we hasten up a flight of broad, grey, marble
steps, beneath a tinted roof, and catching on our way
through a spacious window an expanse of this cloudless
Munich heaven, against which rise in sharp relief the white
artists’ statues in long perspective line.
We enter a room hung with full-length portraits of
Bavarian kings and electors in their royal robes : they are
King Ludwig and his ancestors, who have gathered to-
gether the treasures preserved in the Pinakothek. King
Ludwig comes of an art-loving race. In this room loiter
the attendants and servants of the Pinakothek; and here
you can buy a catalogue if you tike ; but we have already
one with us—a very well-worn copy—an old friend : so we
pass on into the next room, the first hall of the gallery, and
containing the works of Albert Diirer, of his master Michael
Wohlgemuth, and of Albert Diirer’s' disciples and imi-
tators.
But not even here will we pause long this morning; you
must come with me into tins gallery of cabinets, which runs
parallel with the central gallery of halls, and which said
cabinets principally contain the famous pictures of the
Boisseree Gallery.
AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
Perugino Ghirlandajo, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Titian,
Bellini, Andrea del Sarto, Correggio, and Domenichino,
keep watch and ward,—an immortal band, standing around
the treasury of their works, and ennobling with a poetic
thought the broad parapet of the Pinakothek.
We ascend a low flight of steps guarded by lions couchant;
the tall portal opens as by magic, and we stand in the
presence of a giant—a mild giant clad in the blue livery of
the Bavarian court: a broad crimson and white band crosses
the gigantic breast, huge top-boots adorn the gigantic legs,
a peaceful smile beams over a placid giant face,—the cele-
brated giant porter of the Pinakothek nods us a morning
greeting, and we hasten up a flight of broad, grey, marble
steps, beneath a tinted roof, and catching on our way
through a spacious window an expanse of this cloudless
Munich heaven, against which rise in sharp relief the white
artists’ statues in long perspective line.
We enter a room hung with full-length portraits of
Bavarian kings and electors in their royal robes : they are
King Ludwig and his ancestors, who have gathered to-
gether the treasures preserved in the Pinakothek. King
Ludwig comes of an art-loving race. In this room loiter
the attendants and servants of the Pinakothek; and here
you can buy a catalogue if you tike ; but we have already
one with us—a very well-worn copy—an old friend : so we
pass on into the next room, the first hall of the gallery, and
containing the works of Albert Diirer, of his master Michael
Wohlgemuth, and of Albert Diirer’s' disciples and imi-
tators.
But not even here will we pause long this morning; you
must come with me into tins gallery of cabinets, which runs
parallel with the central gallery of halls, and which said
cabinets principally contain the famous pictures of the
Boisseree Gallery.