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182 AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
tine arches of white and gold, and with delicate vermilion
tracery upon them, cluster together, supporting tall figures
symbolical of former Artist-Festivals., and, crowning the
whole, a graceful, youthful figure of Joy holding his cup.
Ivy and vine cluster around, and festoon the graceful arches •,
tall, golden tripods rise, heaped up with flowers; wreaths
of fresh greenery, and golden tambourines and pipes and
flutes, hang around the base of the pavilion in joyous
symmetry beneath the pavilion, nestling amid a grove of
odorous shrubs and flowers, four magical swans, with white
and golden plumage, arch their necks and pour from their
open bills ruddy streams of wine ! The fairy vision towers
to the very ceiling of the lofty Odeon Hall, where, from
a wreath of roses red and white, spring forth long silken
streamers of white and pink, extending like a vast umbel
over the whole hall, each streamer attached at its farther
end to a smaller chaplet of roses hung upon each capital of
the grey marble columns which support the galleries of
the hall.
These grey marble columns are also gay with decorations
—hangings of crimson with a simple diaper pattern of gold
clothe them up one-third of their height, and from pillar
to pillar swings a wreath of foliage and roses ; thus colour
and flowers encircle the whole hall. Beneath the orchestra-
gallery rises a low carpetted platform, which is approached
by two flights of steps, where stand, as guards, two masked
figures in mediaeval costume. In the very front of the
platform rises a grand towering group of trophies—the
trophies of painting and music.
The heavy white emblazoned banners of the two societies
of Munich painters fall in brotherly harmony with the
smaller banners of two musical societies who have lent their
aid for the festivities of the grand night. Beneath the
banner-folds hang clusters of palettes, brushes, strings of
tine arches of white and gold, and with delicate vermilion
tracery upon them, cluster together, supporting tall figures
symbolical of former Artist-Festivals., and, crowning the
whole, a graceful, youthful figure of Joy holding his cup.
Ivy and vine cluster around, and festoon the graceful arches •,
tall, golden tripods rise, heaped up with flowers; wreaths
of fresh greenery, and golden tambourines and pipes and
flutes, hang around the base of the pavilion in joyous
symmetry beneath the pavilion, nestling amid a grove of
odorous shrubs and flowers, four magical swans, with white
and golden plumage, arch their necks and pour from their
open bills ruddy streams of wine ! The fairy vision towers
to the very ceiling of the lofty Odeon Hall, where, from
a wreath of roses red and white, spring forth long silken
streamers of white and pink, extending like a vast umbel
over the whole hall, each streamer attached at its farther
end to a smaller chaplet of roses hung upon each capital of
the grey marble columns which support the galleries of
the hall.
These grey marble columns are also gay with decorations
—hangings of crimson with a simple diaper pattern of gold
clothe them up one-third of their height, and from pillar
to pillar swings a wreath of foliage and roses ; thus colour
and flowers encircle the whole hall. Beneath the orchestra-
gallery rises a low carpetted platform, which is approached
by two flights of steps, where stand, as guards, two masked
figures in mediaeval costume. In the very front of the
platform rises a grand towering group of trophies—the
trophies of painting and music.
The heavy white emblazoned banners of the two societies
of Munich painters fall in brotherly harmony with the
smaller banners of two musical societies who have lent their
aid for the festivities of the grand night. Beneath the
banner-folds hang clusters of palettes, brushes, strings of