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The Fodor Museum, principally modern works. Daily, ex. Ta., small fee.

The ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN, one of the best in Europe, is open daily in summer, 6 A. M.-10 P.M. 50 c.

Routes To ROTTERDAM, 14 hrs., $1.50; $1.14. To THE HAGUE, 14 hrs. $1.25 $1. To ANTWERP, 31⁄2 hrs., $3.75; $2.86. Principal station on the s.e. margin of the city.

Andrea della Fratte, S., ch. Rome, via da Capo di Case In 2d chapel, r. is a mon. to Lady Falconet, by Miss Hosmer; on the last pillar, r., tomb of Schadow, the sculptor; in 3d chapel, 1., tomb of Angelica Kauffman.

Andrea della Valle, St., ch. Rome, 1591, near the Piazza Navona; celebrated for the frescoes by Domenichino, in the tribune-among his finest works. The church and adjacent houses are supposed to stand on the ruins of the Theatre and the Curia of Pompey, the place of Cæsar's assassination.

Andrew, St., represented leaning on his cross, with a book in his hand. Patron saint of Scotland, Burgundy, and Russia. Angeli, S. M. degli (dale'-ye), ch., Piazza di Termini, one of the most imposing in Rome, arranged by M. Angelo, 1555, out of the great hall or Cella Calidaria of the Baths of Diocletian. It has since been much altered. The pavement is now 8 ft. above that of the Thermæ, and the columns are buried to that extent, only 8 of which are antiques. In the vestibule is the tomb of Salvator Rosa.

In the Transept, r. *statue of St. Bruno, by Houdon, of which Clement XIV. said: "It would speak, if the rules of his Order did not prescribe silence."

"I thought it good, but scarcely worthy of vast admiration."--Hawthorne, Of the many paintings, Domenichino's St. Sebastian is among the most noted.

"I think this really a great picture."-Hawthorne.

Angelico, Fra, GUIDO DI PIETRO DA FIESOLE (fee-a-so. lay), GIOVANNI, 1387-1455; b. at Viccio, Italy. Painted only devout and saintly subjects, for which he would accept no remuneration. His works are wrought with the greatest care and exquisite finish.

His coloring is pure, clear, delicately softened, and admirably adapted to the serene, saint-like expression he sought to delineHe possessed no facility in representing malignant passion. *The Madonna in the Uffizi, No. 17, surrounded by an arch of

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twelve angels, with the predella and wing pictures, forms one o the most exquisite of his works, and one of his best known. Formerly in a room upon the east corridor; now in a small room leading from the west corridor.

Angel-Fra Angelico.

Died at Rome, entombed in the ch. of S. M. Sopra Minerva.

"His angels are the purest type to which imagination has consented. By no other hand are these beings of another sphere depicted so genuinely as the gentle guardians of man."-Lübke.

"How the kingdom of heaven, the home of the angels, saints, and blessed ones, was mirrored in the devout imagination of that early time, we learn most accurately and completely through him, so that his pictures will ever remain of the highest worth to history."-Burckhardt.

"Never in the whole range of pictorial art have the inspired fervor of Christian feeling, the angelic beauty and purity of which the soul is capable, been so gloriously interpreted."

"I remember an Annunciation' by him in Perugia, in which the Virgin is candor and gentleness itself; and how beautiful the two hands so piously clasped! Alongside of this is the 'Nativity; before the delicate infant Christ, with dreamy eyes, two angels in long robes offer flowers; they are so youthful, and yet how grave! These are the delicate touches which subsequent painters are not to recover."-Taine.

PRINCIPAL WORKS: Flor. Acad., I. 34; II. 19, 22; III. 11, 19, 20, 24, 40, 41; Louvre, 182; Madrid, 14; Parma, 429; Pitti, 373; Turin, 93-4; Uff., 17, 1162, 1184, 1290, 1294; Vat., two pictures.

Angelo, Michael, MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI, 14751564; was born at Castel Caprese, near Arezzo, Italy. Early placed under the instruction of Ghirlandaio, his genius soon became so apparent that Lorenzo de Medici, Governor of Florence, invited him to reside and pursue his studies in his palace. At 21 he was invited to Rome, where he executed the Drunken Bacchus, now in the Uffizi. La Pietà in St. Peter's followed, and made him not only famous, but gave him rank as the first sculptor of his time. Returning to Florence, he completed a Madonna, now at Bruges, and at the same time painted his Holy Family, now in the Tribune, Florence.

At 26 he commenced his David, and, though doing all the work, It was completed in four years. At 30 he was called to Rome

by Pope Julius II., and commenced a celebrated Mausoleum to be erected in St. Peter's.

A misunderstanding having arisen between him and the Pope, he returned hastily to Florence, where, whilst it was being adjusted, he sketched his celebrated cartoon of "Soldiers Bathing."

A reconciliation having been effected, the Pope called Angelo to Bologna, where he commissioned him to erect a colossal bronze statue of the Pope. Afterward he was called to Rome to deco

Michael Angelo.

rate the Sistine Chapel. In these paintings the advance upon the style hitherto prevalent is so marked that they may be said to introduce the epoch of modern painting. The subjects are chiefly Biblical. In 1513 he resumed work on the Mausoleum and completed his Moses, now in S. Pietro in Vincoli; and nearly finished the Slaves, now in the Louvre.

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For some years the country was disturbed, and Angelo was much disheartened. In 1524 he commenced work upon his two celebrated statues of the Dukes de Nemours and d'Urbino-Giulio and Lorenzo de Medici-when political disturbances put a period to further labor. Six years later, peace having been restored, he resumed his chisel, and in a few months the four colossal figures, Day and Night, Morning and Evening, were wrought out. In 1534, at the pressing demand of Pope Paul III., Angelo commenced his Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, upon which he continued 6 years without assistance. When he had reached the age of 70 he was commissioned as the architect of St. Peter's. His last work was the construction of a church, the S. M. degli Angeli, from the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian. He has two paintings in the Uffizi, No. 290, and No. 1139-the last, the only finished picture of his known.

He died in Rome, 1475, at the age of 89, and is entombed in Florence in the Church of Santa Croce. He was never married, but in his later life became deeply attached to Vittoria Colonna

"Urged on by a strong subjective impulse, he scorned to follow the laws of archi tectural creation, composed only on a grand scale, aimed at a strong general effect, and cared little for the form of the details."-Lübke.

"Beauty, repose, symmetry, and grace, he eschewed; expression and individu ality he aimed not at; detail of drapery or ornament he scorned. We arrive, therefore, at some estimate of the stupendous nature of that power and subjective instinct which, in the absence of all these qualities, still takes our admiration by storm."-Kugler.

See Moses, Sistine Chapel, Last Judgment, and Medicean Chapel. *Angelo, House of, near S. Croce, Florence, via Ghibellina, M. and Th., fr.; contains many sketches, designs, and models by Angelo. Bust in bronze taken after death.

Angelo, S., Castle of, Rome; the tomb of Hadrian, by whom it was erected, A.D. 130. It is a circular tower upon a quadrangular base, in imitation of the tomb of Augustus. Originally the tower was two stories in height above the base, and was covered with Parian marble. The remains of Hadrian, Lucius Verus, the Antonines, M. Aurelius, Commodus, and Sept. Severus, were deposited here.

In 498 the Pope removed the bronze fir-cone to St. Peter's, afterward to the Museum of the Vatican. In 423 the tomb was converted into a fortress; 537, besieged by Vitiges, and in the defence, its statues and cornices were hurled down upon the besiegers. From the 9th to the 13th century it was the stronghold of the popes, and was the scene of constant intrigue and crime.

Beatrice Cenci was confined here for 12 months before her execution. As now seen, only the basement is of the structure of Hadrian. The tower was erected by Urban VIII., and the top added by Paul III. There is little to be seen within.

Anna, St., the mother of the Virgin Mary. Her reputed body was brought to Constantinople from Palestine, 710.

Anthony, St., Egypt,357. Renouncing the world, he lived so pure and holy a life, as a hermit, that Satan sent demons to tempt him. These assumed the forms of dragons, imps, scorpions, monsters, and lovely women-all to no purpose. The Temptation of St. Anthony is a favorite subject of Teniers.

Antinous (an-tin'-oo-us), a youth of great beauty, the favorite and companion of Hadrian; drowned in the Nile, A.D. 122, and, by order of Hadrian, enrolled among the gods.

BAS-RELIEF: Villa Albani; **Antinous Crowned.

"After the Apollo and the Laocoon, this is perhaps the most beautiful monu ment which time has transmitted to us."-Winckelmann.

STATUES Berlin, 236, 263-4-5; Br. Mu., 20; Cap., I. **13; VI. 54; Louvre ); Naples,* 194 (114), 349; Vat., 540, 545; Lateran, *head.

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