Copenhagen

T H E SIGHTS OF CO PENHAGEN.

A lexander frieze, on a som ew hat sm aller scale than the o rig i­ nal (70 feet by 110 feet). The upstairs room s are, like those on the ground -floo r, richly decorated in the Pom peian style, w ith a fine deep w all-colour, w hich show s off the m arble to full advantage. Besides som e statues, such as the two D an­ cing G irls and several Cupids, they contain T ho rv ald sen ’s col­ lection of pictures, in which the Danish and G erm an painters of his day w ho lived in Rome are especially well represented. H ere are also to be found his books, antiquities, ancient coins and gems, considered, in his time, to be a fine collection. In one room are his clay m odels and his draw ings; in another, along w ith some of his furniture and personal belongings, are the last pieces of w ork on which he was engaged — an u n ­ finished bu st of Luther, and a sketch for a relief of the G enius of Sculpture, drawn with chalk on a slate. The strokes of his m odelling-stick are visible on the Luther-bust, and the little lum p of clay which he placed on the breast when he stopped his work, a few hours before he died, is still there. M . Galschiøt. THE P ICTURE GALLERIES O F CO PENHAGEN . The National A rt Gallery is situated in the Sølvgade. The building, p lanned by V Dahlerup, was com pleted in 1896. The g ro u n d floor contains a collection of casts and the Royal collection af engravings. On the first floor are paintings and sculpture, divided into two sections, one for Foreign Art and one for Danish. — It was not until this century that Danish art acquired its m arked national character. W e can trace it back into old times. In ou r churches dating from the M iddle Ages we often discover, beneath the plaster, original decorations by unknow n and, no doubt, un im po rtan t painters. In the seventeenth century, ou r art-loving king, Christian IV., em ployed Dutch artists to work for him ; am ong st these were the gifted painters, Karel van M and em the Y oung er and Abraham Wuchters. In 1754

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