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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



No. 114. THE GENIUS OF COLUMBUS. 



A beautiful figure in marble, representing the Genius of Columbus, stands in the 

 Royal Palace at Genoa. It represents a young man with a genie with wings, 

 surrounded by nautical implements. 



No. 115. BUST AT ROME. 



There is a bust of Columbus in the Capitoline 

 Museum, Rome, but its origin and artist are 

 unknown. There is a copy in marble in the 

 rooms of the Historical Society at New York. 



No. 116. THE COGOLETO MONUMENT. 



At the town of Cogoleto, which claims to 

 have been the birthplace of Columbus, is a 

 heroic bust of the Giovian type upon a pedestal 

 of granite, bearing an appropriate inscription. 

 The pedestal also bears nautical designs, and 

 upon one side is a griffin in marble. 



No. 117. THE BARCELONA MONUMENT (pi. xx). 



The monument to Columbus at Barcelona was 

 unveiled, in the presence of Queen Christina and 

 the ministers of state, on the 2d day of May, 

 1888. It cost $200, 000. 



GENIUS OF COLUMBUS. It is 240 feet high, and 



an hydraulic elevator 



carries visitors to the top. It was cast in eight pieces at 

 Barcelona. The plan comprises an extensive landing stage 

 at the harbor in front of the city, flanked on either side by 

 the prow of a vessel, one representing the Finta, and the 

 other the Nina, with a magnificent balustrade, adorned by 



statues of famous explor 

 ers of various nations. 

 Behind this stretches 

 an ample paved square, 

 shaded on its sides and 

 rear by rows of orna 

 mental trees, and from 

 this in turn rises a lofty 



and elaborately decorated column, surmounted by 

 the colossal figure of Columbus, holding in his left 

 hand a marine chart, and pointing with his right 

 to the newly discovered land. The base and 

 accessory figures one group of which represents 

 the provinces of Leon, Castile, Arragon and Cata 

 lonia, the other portraying the patrons and friends 

 of the intrepid Admiral are of stone; the eight 

 colossal lions guarding its base, and themain shaft, 

 itself, are of iron; while the four graceful figures 

 of Fame and Renown, the panels, with their elabo 

 rate reliefs, and the other decorative devices which 

 enrich the monument, and the crowning effigy of 

 of Coluinbus- -which is a little over 18 feet in 



height, and weighs some 30 tons are all bronze, cast from the cannons contributed 

 for the purpose by the Spanish Government. This monument was the work of several 

 artists, the principal figures being the conception of Rafael Atche, a Catalan sculptor, 

 and the cost of defraying it was borne partly by the city and partly by voluntary 

 subscription from various municipalities, corporations, and private individuals. 



BUST IN CAPITOLINE MUSEUM, 

 ROME. 



MONUMENT AT COGOLETO. 



