collection of ancient armor and weapons, (now preserved in 

 part at Vienna), a huge Venetian mirror of polished steel, 

 thousands of coins and medals, engraved cameos, oriental 

 porcelains, miniatures, bronze figures, antique vases, alabaster 

 statuettes, marble statues and oil paintings. Perhaps the 

 most famous of the art treasures was the statue of Ilioneus, \ 

 son of ^iob^Jbought by John von Achen of a Jew dealer in I 

 Rome for thirty -four thousand ducats ; it has been ascribed \ 

 to Scopas; in Rudolph's day it was entire, but through 

 shocking carelessness it became a torso, and in the year 

 1782, it was pulled out of a dark cellar beneath the Castle 

 and sold at auction for fifty-one kreutzers, a sum equal to 

 about thirteen cents of the money of the United States. 



The paintings hanging partly in rooms whose floor-space 

 was crowded with the objects named, and partly in the 

 chambers and salons of the palace, for there was no art- 

 gallery properly speaking, numbered no less than seven 

 hundred and sixty-four canvasses and comprised works by 

 Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Paul Veronese, Leonardo da Vinci, 

 Giulio Romano, and Tintoretto, as well as fine examples of 

 the Spanish and Flemish schools. A number of these had 

 been purchased in 1580 from the Imhoff Gallery at Nurem- 

 berg; they comprised a "Saint Bartholomew" by Raphael, 

 a "Bacchus, Diana and Venus" by Paris Bordone of Venice, 

 a painting on wood by von Pentz representing "Abraham, 

 Sarah and Hagar," and Diirer's "Burning of Sodom and 

 Gomorrah," together with a collection of Diirer's drawings 

 and his sketch-book. The Rudolphine gallery was very rich 

 in the works of Albrecht Diirer, no pains being spared to 

 secure them; his "Feast of the Rose-Garlands" (Rosenkranz- 

 fest), painted in 1505 for the church of St. Bartholomew in 

 Venice, was bought by Johann von Achen for a prodigious 

 sum and transported across the Alps on the shoulders of 



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