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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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PROF. VON HEi*MHOi.Tz. Ludwig Kfiaus (Berlin). FINE ARTS. 35^ Chapel of St. Germer (13th); the Chateau of Lude (15th);and Gaillon (i6th); the Hotel de Rohan, Paris; the Palace of
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(JNITBD STATES.—l*HE HUNT BAI.JU. (Jules L. Stewart.) Versailles, and the Hotel de Ville of Toulon (17th). The Christof Amiens shows the height to which the sculptors art hadrisen in the medieval ages, and though there was later a de-cadence from such sublime ideals and execution, yet the gal-lery of the Cathedral of Limoges, wrought in the sixteenth cen-tury, during the reign of Francis I., shows a Renaissance. Thetomb of Louis de Breze, husband of the famous Diane de Poitiers,and the door and doorways of the Church of St. Maclou, of Rouen,are fine examples of the sixteenth century Renaissance. TheFrench government has kindly presented to the American people alarge number of these casts, with the understanding that they areto be placed in some American art museum. This grand collectionvvas obtained chiefly through the exertions of Prof Halsey C. Ives,director of the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, who is also chief ofthe Department of Fine Arts of the Columbian Exposition. In painti

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