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MUNICH 43 communicates on one side with the collections of the smaller paintings, and on the other with an extensive corridor, divided into_25 loggie, adorned with frescoes by Cornelius illustrative of the history of the fine arts during the mid- dle ages. Cimabue, Giotto, Leonardo da Vin- ci, Correggio, Titian, Michel Angelo, Albert Diirer, Rembrandt, and Vandyke are here rep- resented, some of them by numerous works. An entire compartment is filled with those of Raphael, and 95 works of Rubens take up the entire space of the central and largest hall of the gallery. Murillo, Poussin, and other Span- ish and French painters are also represented. The lower story contains collections of 9,000 drawings by the old masters, including some of Raphael, the drawings of Cornelius for the loggie, and 3,000 drawings of South American scenery by Rugendas. The cabinet of engra- vings comprises about 300,000 works. On the ground floor of the W. wing is a collection of Etruscan and other vases. On the north is the new Pinakothek, completed in 1853, des- tined for the works of contemporary artists, and comprising 52 rooms in two stories. The upper floor, which contains them, is divi- ded into 5 large central halls, 5 rooms on the south and 14 small cab- inets on the north, be- sides a room at the west with Rottmann's encaustic illustrations of Grecian history and sites. In the central hall are Kaulbach's " De- struction of Jerusalem " and Schorn's " Del- uge." It contains also Wilkie's "Reading of the Will." On the ground floor are paintings on porcelain, with copies of the most celebrated works of the picture gallery. In the old picture gallery on the "N. side of the royal park is a collec- tion of antiquities and curiosities from dif- ferent parts of the world. The Leuchten- berg gallery of paintings was removed to St. Petersburg in 1853. The new royal palace (der neue Konigsbau) is a magnificent and stupendous extension of the old palace. The interior is embellished after the model of the loggie of the Vatican. The ground floor con- sists of state rooms decorated with Schnorr's Nibelungen. The kings' and queens' apart- ments are adorned with paintings respectively from Greek and German poets. Other apart- ments are devoted to Klopstock, Wieland, Goethe, Schiller, and Tieck. The most inter- esting part of the palace is the Festsaalbau, containing on the E. side of the ball room two rooms for card playing called halls of the beauties, with portraits of beautiful women of modern times, including Lola Montez. The banquet hall and the halls of Charlemagne, Barbar.ossa, and Rudolph of Hapsburg are full of fine decorations, the throne room being the most gorgeous of all. Among other royal residences are the Wittelsbach palace and the palaces of Prince Max and Prince Luitpold, the latter formerly known as the Leuchten- berg palace, situated on the Odeon square, op- posite to the fine bazaar celebrated for its ar- cades ; and there are several private mansions of remarkable architecture. The Bavarian national museum, completed in 1866, about 500 ft. long and 95 ft. high, contains varied and interesting collections relating to Bava- rian antiquity, history, and manufactures, and the walls are decorated with many frescoes of stupendous size. There are various other buildings used as museums and for exhibitions of ancient and modern art, of which latter The Kuhmeshalle. Munich contains a greater number than any other place of its size, the so-called crystal palace in the old botanic garden being the most extensive. Some of the city gates, as the Siegesthor (the triumphal arch), after the model of the arch of Constantine, and the Isarthor, are exceedingly interesting, as well as the Pro- pyla3um, a triumphal arch in the old Doric style, with bass reliefs, commemorating the modern Greek war of independence and King Otho. The Ruhmeshalle (hall of fame) is the most conspicuous monument of Munich. It is situated on high ground in the Theresienwiese, and consists of a large Doric portico of Ba- varian marble, forming three sides of a quad- rangle and an open side, in the centre of which rises Schwanthaler's colossal bronze statue of Bavaria, about 100 ft. high, including the pedes- tal. There are 48 columns with busts of emi- nent Bavarians. In the tympana are female statues representing Bavaria, the Palatinate, Swabia, and Franconia ; and in the frieze are