WHENCE THE ART OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, AND 

 MODERN ROME? 



The " Eternal City," as Rome is sometimes called, 

 has many art attractions, but the visitor does not stop 

 to pay more than a passing glance to handsome palaces 

 of recent construction, he hastens to gaze upon the 

 magnificent " ruins " he has read about in school- 

 books, and seen pictured in travelers' guides. He 

 soon stumbles upon the Pantheon, and is amazed at 

 the grand and classic appearance of the well-preserved 

 pagan temple. He is astonished that a building over 

 two thousand years old can be in such a fine state of 

 preservation. After strolling a short distance, the 

 tourist is confronted by a view of Trajan's Column, 

 and scrutinizes the spiral relievos that extend from 

 v bottom to top. He can not make out all the mean- 

 ing the artist has displayed, but he sees a thousand 

 and more different figures wrought in the winding 

 frieze of the shaft-like monument. With the pedestal 

 and crowning statue, the pillar is one hundred and 

 forty-seven feet in altitude. 



Following the course of dilapidated structures, 

 the visitor comes to the Capitol, and would stop to 

 view its art treasures, but he sees the magnificent 

 Arch of Septimius Severus, and must devote a pass- 

 ing inspection to the time-worn figures and inscrip- 

 tions on the key-stones of the triple passage-ways. 

 Hard by is the Colonnade of the Twelve Deities. 



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