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extendpd by two others, nBincly, the Neue-Residenz (New Palace), or 

 Konigsbau, and the Festban, which may be considered as forming 

 together with it one enormona maps of buildinp, extending from the 

 facade of the post-office on the soutli side of the Jfax-Joseph's Platz, 

 to the old picture-Rallery on the north side of the Hof-Gorten and the 

 end of Lodwitr-Stras'e. 



The Koniirahau begiin in 1826, from the designs of Von Klenze, 

 adjoins the Old Palace on the south, and forms the north side of the 

 Max-Joseph's Platz, the east and south sides of which are occupied by 

 the theatre and post-office respectircly ; while the centre is Oflorned 

 with the splendid bronze monnment of King Maximilian Joseph, a 

 Bitting colossal figure (modelled by Ranch) on a double pedi-stal, 

 whose sides are covered ^nth reliefs, and the lower one has the figtire 

 of a lion partly projecting from it at each angle. The fn^ade of the 

 Konigsbau is 406 feet in length. In style and design the building 

 presents a copy of the Pitti Palace at Florence. The ground-8oor 

 and that above it hare each 23 arches in one continued line, of which 

 the centre ones below are larger than the others, and form open 

 entrances to the logtria or carriage vestibule. The third sVjry risee 

 above the rest of the elevation, it being only 11 windows in length, 

 and has a bnhistraded terrace on each side of it, forming the flat roof 

 above the remainder of the fa9a'le. If it be said in depreciation 

 of this noble and imposins structure that the plan is not original, it 

 may bo =nfely affirmed that the interior is unequalled in its magnificent 

 decorations; the refined taste of King Ludwic, and the frescoes, 

 paintings, and sculptures of Schnorr, Ziinmermann, Kaulbach, 

 Schwanthaler, and other artists have contributed an ens»mblo of 

 internal ornamentation unsurpassed out of the Vatican. The ground- 

 floor contains the state apartments, the walls of which are corered 

 with frescoes by Schnorr, the BubjectB being token from the Niebel- 

 nngenlied. The apartments on the first floor are occupied by the 

 king and queen. The king's rooms are painted (both ceilings and 

 walls) in encaastic, with subjects taken from the Greek poets, the 

 friezes by Schwanthaler, representing scenes pourtraycd by Pindar. 

 The subjects represented in the Queen's rooms are taken from the 

 German poets. The floors all through the palace are formed with 

 different coloured woods laid in patterns. The apnrtmenti on the 

 second floor are used for court entertainments, among which is a 

 ball-room, 62 feet long by 87 feet wide, and 27 feet hi'j:li, with semi- 

 circular ends, and adjoining it a Blumenaaal, or Hall of Flowers, 

 68 feet long by 36 feet wide, opening to the terrace over the east end 

 of the building. 



The Festban, abo by Von Klenze, incloses the Old Palace on the north, 

 as the Kdnigsban does on the south. It has a facade towards the 

 Hofgarten (along the south aide of which it extends about 800 feet in 

 length) in the Roman style, with an Ionic colonnade in the centre, 

 upon which are a series of allegorical fierures by Schwanthaler. It 

 contiuns state drawing-rooms, throne-i-ooni, banquoting-room, ball- 

 room, several halls and apartments for the crown princes of Bavaria. 

 The throne-room is adorned with colossal statues of electors and 

 princes of Bavaria in bronse gilt. The ball-room is decorated with 

 rilievi and paintings, representine Greek dances ; the banquoting-room 

 with battle scenes by Hess and Adam ; the Hall of Beauties with 

 stntues of modem female beauties ; and the three halls that precede 

 the throne-room with large pictures descriptive of events in the lives 

 of Chariemagne, Barbarassa, and Rudolf of Hapsburg. by Schnorr. 



The Hofgartrn is a planted square of about 1100 feet fh>m east to 

 west, and 700 feet from north to south. On the west side of it is the 

 bazaar ; on the east side a barrack ; and on th<- north the old picture- 

 gallery. The west side of the Hofgarten is lined throngfaout its whole 

 extent by arcadrs, beneath which are caf^s, shops, ftc ; while the rest 

 of the oreade which surrounds the square is decorated with a series 

 of frescoes representing events in the annals of Bavaria, and with land- 

 scapes of remarkable places in Greece, Italy, Sicily, ftc. These last 

 are illustrated by verses ascribed to the pen of King Ludwig. The 

 principal front of the bazaar, another of Von Klenze's productions, faces 

 the Odoon-Platz, of which it forma the east side. It is iu a simple 

 but tasteful style of Italian architecture, with enriched panels between 

 the larger arches of the ground-floor, and grouped windows above, 

 consisting of lesser arches, whose archivolts rest upon Corinthian 

 pilasters. 



Aiiag the north side of the Hofgarten extends the old Picture 

 Gallery, arranged in a suite of rooms over another lengthened arcade. 

 It is now approprintcd to extensive collections of carvings in ivory, 

 ftc. All the choicest pictures are deposited in the Pinakothek, as also 

 are the last of those from Bchleissheim and the other royal collections, 

 the total number of which is not less than 9000. The abundance of 

 works of art in Munich is quite prodigious, and that not in painting alone, 

 but in sculpture, as is testified by the collections in the Qlyptothek. 



The Qlyptothek, or Sculpture Gallery, was erected by Von Klenze for 

 King Liulwig. It is in the Greek style of architecture. The building 

 is biautiful, standing with its south or principal front towards a large 

 open space called the KoniKS-Platz, near the Basilica of St. Bonifaciiis 

 in the north-w..-st of the city. It is not more thsn about 220 feet 

 sqnnre in plan, with a court in the centre. The facade has an Ionic 

 portico, raised on three very deep gradini. or flights of steps, continued 

 as a base along the whole front, like those in some of the ancient 

 Greek temple*. Eight columns are placed in front and the others 



behind, iu such manner as to form a second i-ange of four columns and 

 four anta;. It may be described technically therefore as consisting of 

 an Ionic octastyle projecting before a tetrastyle in antis. The pedi- 

 ment is not fill>"d with sculpture in relief, but recessed or hollowed 

 so as to admit detached figures or statues (as in the templs of JEgma), 

 exhibiting the various operations of the plastic arts, modelling, sculp- 

 ture, carvinr», &c. The figures were executed by Schwanthaler, HiJler, 

 and others, but the composition was designed by Wagner. The 

 interior is divided into a series of rooms, of which the two rotundas 

 at the angles of the Kooigs-Platz are lighted from above, through 

 lanterns and domes; the others by large semicircular or luuetto 

 windows, above their cornices, and towards the inner court The 

 first rooms, beginning with those on the left hand, or west side of the 

 vestibule, are appropriated to Es^ptian antiquities and otlier works 

 of early art ; to these succeed the ./Egineteu-Saal, or Hall of ..?3gina 

 Marbles, the ApoUo-Saal, the Bicchidan-Saal, and the Niobirleii-Saal, 

 which last is at the west angle of the north front, and is lighted by 

 one of the two windows on that side of the building. The space 

 between that and the coiTesponding angle is occupied by what are 

 called the Fest-Sa.ile, two large apartments whose walla are entirely 

 covered with frescoes by Cornelius anil his pupils. At the north-cast 

 is the Herotn-Saal, from which there is a descent into the Roman 

 hall or gallery, the most spacious of all, and which exceeds the other 

 scidptiire-rooins in the splendour of its architecture. An asceut of 

 steps at the farther end leads up into the Saal der Farbigeu Bildwerke, 

 or Hall of Coloured Sculptiirea. the rotunda at the south-cast angle of 

 the front, adjoining which is the hall of modem sculpture, containing 

 Canova's Paris and Venus, and Thorwaldsen's Adonis. Near the 

 Qlyptothek is a temple used for the exhibition of modern works of 

 art : it is proposed to unite the two stnictures by a propylse'im. 



The Piuakothek, another, and in some respects the best, of Von 

 Klenze's works, is a much more extensive edifice than the Qlyptothek. 

 It stands in an open situation at no very groat distance north-eaat from 

 the Qlyptothek, and in the immediate vicinity of the spacious infantry 

 barracks. The first stone was laid April 7 (Raphael's birthday), 1826, 

 by King Ludwig, and the building was completed in about ton years. 

 Although each side of the buililing (which in plan resembles two 

 Ts [h— i] joined), presents an architectural fofode of uniform character, 

 that facing the south may be considered the principal one. The lower 

 portion consists of a very lofty ground-floor, with a series of arched 

 windows within square-headed framings, surmounted by cornices, and 

 ri'Sting upon a po<lium, formed by two courses of largo rustics. In 

 the oeutre of that side are eleven such windows on each side of the 

 entrance porch, which consists of four Ionic columns, whose entabla- 

 ture supports a balcony in front of the three central arcades or windows 

 of the logirie above. Along the upper floor the same order is continued 

 throughout in half-columns against the ]iiers of the arches between 

 them, forming a long arcade or corridor, divided into 25 loggio or 

 compmrtments. This order is crowned by a bold cantilever cornice 

 and antefixse, terminating the elevation ; for the attic does not rise 

 immediately over the order, but is set back as far as the hinder wall 

 of the loggia. On the lower floor, at the west end of the building, ore 

 a library, and rooms for collections of prints and drawings. The rest 

 consists of rooms required for officers of the establishment. The 

 larger rooms or halls in the centre are lighted from above ; the height 

 to the top of their lanterns is rather more than 50 feet. This height 

 contributes greatly to architectural importance, and affords ample 

 space for decoration above the cornice of the rooms, it also causes the 

 light to fall upon the upper part of the walls themselves, so that the 

 tops of the pictures have the light full upon them. Not only the 

 ceiling but all the decorations of the rooms may be pronounced magni- 

 ficent, and both the floors and the lower parts of the walls, are of 

 Bavarian marble. The number of paintings is limited to 1500, con- 

 sisting of the choicest works of the great masters, taken from all the 

 collections belonging to the royal galleries of Bavaria. They are 

 arranged in schools — Italian, French and Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, 

 and Glerman — in the large central halls before described, and in 28 

 adjoining small cabinets on the first floor. The halls communicate on 

 one side with these cabinets and on the other with the loggie whiofa 

 anywhere else would be considered a museum and gallery of itself, 

 forming a line of 400 feet in extent, decorated throughout with 

 arabesques on its walls, with historical frescoes in the lunettes facing 

 the arches, and with subjects in each of the small cupolas covering 

 the 25 compartments of this long corridor. These frescoes, which 

 have all some reference to the history of art, were designed by 

 Cornelius and executed by Zimmermann and others. The north and 

 south fa9ade3 of the Pinakothek are also externally adorned with 

 frescoes illustrative of the progress of art in Bavaria : between each 

 window are colossal full-length portraits of Thorwaldsen, Von Klenze, 

 Coraelius, Ohlmiiller, Hess, Gartner, Schnorr, H. Hess, Rottuiann, 

 Ziebland, Schwanthaler, Seliora, Kaulbach, and Schrmrlolph. 



The Allerheiligen-Kapelle (All Saints' Clhapel), on the ca«t side of 

 the Residenz, another work of Von Klenze, was also begun in 1886. 

 In its architectural character it does not resemble any otlier portion 

 of the palace, being in the Byzantine or Lombanlio style. It may bo 

 described as about 70 feet wide and iis many high, exclusive of the 

 lower portion on each side, covered with a half gable, and whereby the 

 entire width i» increased to obout 100 feet. Slender pilaster shafts, 



