COLUMBUS AT SALAMANCA 



Photogravure from the Painting by Niccolo Barabino 



Columbus discovering a new world, which has been the theme of many 

 artists, is the antithesis of the subject chosen by Barabino, and to the 

 credit of this very famous painter it may be said that his wonderful 

 composition 'has probably won greater sympathy and pity for the explorer 

 than any history however eloquent in describing his wrongs. The sneer of 

 nobles, the calumny of enemies, the disrespect of the learned, are pictured 

 by the artist with such pathos and genius that he has left a perpetual memo- 

 rial of his talent in this masterful representation of the famous discoverer's 

 tribulations. 



