MATTERS OF ART.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3553, 29 July 1905, Page 4

MATTERS OF ART.

Stanford Whit® is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary in America. Not only is his hoyse ii Grammarcy park, New York, a vor ■.table museum of Greek and lloma art, but the lawn is novr filled to over flowing with other ex: 1 .- pies. The main staircas in William ( Whitney’s New York residence, Fif.♦venue and Sixty-eighth st reel, .. ■ white marble and is carved aft' staircase in the Doge’a palace in \ ice. Mr. Whitney brought the dear,, to this country and the work took an months for con.. -.ion. Anders Zorn, the famous Swedr <■ , ./t, ‘‘threatened,” as he put h ..ay present one of his ph. . , Louis M ; .-'hen .-wtl'. -. -i ' .•> « Wr-.rion, 1 ' firid io (t»oH »t (!»>•■ .ag excavations rear Lamps:.. 1 :.t. dandles, a bra !i fb: • Wiw .uu.-U. it is i. eucresrea on the . It hue iiit ee golden hamdos n s did reliefs represen, iug ir. riu; scenes, line date of the vn; v A baa i cuef by Glodioi . represcnux v fawns, nymphs and ci. mis at ploy ... ■ a .... ...i - - . ccs* ■..' ...;• ,/t Gouue,ni .‘he eight cent!; cent;..;., and when she jecame a nun the > were cov.-rer v.’i !i plaster. A J . . , • i . -.a.e of the siege oi Baris emppe off the pias-, ter, showing the scuiptui ; beneath. A French antiquarian sod* ty intends to present it to the Garnava Jet museum, though the price united lor it is $40,000.