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Visits and Sketches At Home and Abroad Volume II
Visits and Sketches At Home and Abroad Volume II
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I. MUNICH--The New Palace--The Beauty of its
Decorations--Particular Account of the Modern Paintings
on the Walls 1-18
The Frescos of Julius Schnorr from the Nibelungen-Lied 20
The Frescos in the Royal Chapel 37
The Opera--Madame Schechner 42
The Kunstverein 46
Karl von Holtëi 49
Fête of the Obelisk 50
The Gallery--Pictures and Painters 60
Madame de Freyberg--A visit to Thalkirchen 64
Tomb of Eugène Beauharnais 68
The Sculpture in the Glyptothek 75
Plan of the Pinnakothek or National Gallery 79
The Revival of Fresco Painting 92
Bavarian Sculptors 94
The Valhalla 96
Stieler, the Portrait Painter 101
Gallery of the Duc de Leuchtenberg 103
Society at Munich 106
The Liederkranz 110
II. NUREMBERG 118
The Old Fortress 123
Albert Durer 125
Hans Sachs and Peter Vischer 127
The Cemetery 132
Travelling in Germany 134
III. DRESDEN 138
The Opera--Madame Schröder Devrient in the "Capaletti" 145
Ludwig Tieck 148
The Dresden Gallery and the Italian School 155
Rosalba--Violante Siries--Henrietta Walters--Maria
von Osterwyck--Elizabeth Sirani--the Sofonisba 171
Thoughts on Female Artists--Louisa and Eliza Sharpe--The
Countess Julie von Egloffstein 179
Moritz Retzsch 183
English and German Art 197
Catalogue of German Artists 201
* * * * *
A Visit to Hardwicke 213
A Visit to Althorpe 275
MUNICH (CONTINUED).
_Tuesday._--M. de Klenze called this morning and conducted me over the
whole of the new palace. The design, when completed, will form a vast
quadrangle. It was begun about seven years ago; and as only a certain
sum is set apart every year for the works, it will probably be seven
years more before the portion now in progress, which is the south side
of the quadrangle, can be completed.
The exterior of the building is plain, but has an air of grandeur even
from its simplicity and uniformity. It reminds me of Sir Philip Sydney's
beautiful description--"A house built of fair and strong stone; not
affecting so much any extraordinary kind of fineness, as an honourable
representing of a firm stateliness; all more lasting than beautiful, but
that the consideration of the exceeding lastingness made the eye believe
it was exceeding beautiful."
When a selfish despot designs a palace, it is for himself he builds.
He thinks first of his own personal tastes and peculiar habits, and the
arrangements are contrived to suit his exclusive propensities. Thus, for
Nero's overwhelming pride, no space, no height, could suffice; so he
built his "golden house" upon a scale which obliged its next possessor
to pull it to pieces, as only fit to lodge a colossus. George the Fourth
had a predilection for low ceilings, so all the future inhabitants of
the Pimlico palace must endure suffocation; and as his majesty did not
live on good terms with his wife, no accommodation was prepared for a
future queen of England.
Decorations--Particular Account of the Modern Paintings
on the Walls 1-18
The Frescos of Julius Schnorr from the Nibelungen-Lied 20
The Frescos in the Royal Chapel 37
The Opera--Madame Schechner 42
The Kunstverein 46
Karl von Holtëi 49
Fête of the Obelisk 50
The Gallery--Pictures and Painters 60
Madame de Freyberg--A visit to Thalkirchen 64
Tomb of Eugène Beauharnais 68
The Sculpture in the Glyptothek 75
Plan of the Pinnakothek or National Gallery 79
The Revival of Fresco Painting 92
Bavarian Sculptors 94
The Valhalla 96
Stieler, the Portrait Painter 101
Gallery of the Duc de Leuchtenberg 103
Society at Munich 106
The Liederkranz 110
II. NUREMBERG 118
The Old Fortress 123
Albert Durer 125
Hans Sachs and Peter Vischer 127
The Cemetery 132
Travelling in Germany 134
III. DRESDEN 138
The Opera--Madame Schröder Devrient in the "Capaletti" 145
Ludwig Tieck 148
The Dresden Gallery and the Italian School 155
Rosalba--Violante Siries--Henrietta Walters--Maria
von Osterwyck--Elizabeth Sirani--the Sofonisba 171
Thoughts on Female Artists--Louisa and Eliza Sharpe--The
Countess Julie von Egloffstein 179
Moritz Retzsch 183
English and German Art 197
Catalogue of German Artists 201
* * * * *
A Visit to Hardwicke 213
A Visit to Althorpe 275
MUNICH (CONTINUED).
_Tuesday._--M. de Klenze called this morning and conducted me over the
whole of the new palace. The design, when completed, will form a vast
quadrangle. It was begun about seven years ago; and as only a certain
sum is set apart every year for the works, it will probably be seven
years more before the portion now in progress, which is the south side
of the quadrangle, can be completed.
The exterior of the building is plain, but has an air of grandeur even
from its simplicity and uniformity. It reminds me of Sir Philip Sydney's
beautiful description--"A house built of fair and strong stone; not
affecting so much any extraordinary kind of fineness, as an honourable
representing of a firm stateliness; all more lasting than beautiful, but
that the consideration of the exceeding lastingness made the eye believe
it was exceeding beautiful."
When a selfish despot designs a palace, it is for himself he builds.
He thinks first of his own personal tastes and peculiar habits, and the
arrangements are contrived to suit his exclusive propensities. Thus, for
Nero's overwhelming pride, no space, no height, could suffice; so he
built his "golden house" upon a scale which obliged its next possessor
to pull it to pieces, as only fit to lodge a colossus. George the Fourth
had a predilection for low ceilings, so all the future inhabitants of
the Pimlico palace must endure suffocation; and as his majesty did not
live on good terms with his wife, no accommodation was prepared for a
future queen of England.
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