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ment of Paris; graceful ointment-vessel, decorated with gold and
colours. — Vases with polychrome painting on a white ground;
lecythi with funeral designs. — Vases from workshops in Lucania
and Campania (4th and end of 5th cent.).
Room XVI. Red-figured vases of Italian workmanship; Hellen¬
istic and Roman pottey. — Black vessels with striated patterns.—
Large and excellently preserved black hydria of Attic workman¬
ship.— Vases with reliefs; cups with designs from Greek poems.
— Red Sigillata vessels from Arezzo and other places (1st cent. B.C.
and 1st cent. A.D.). — Fragments of moulds used in making vases
with reliefs.
Room XVII. Italic - Etruscan Art. Vases of black clay
('Bucchero nero') with plastic ornamentation; imitations of metal
vessels (7-5th cent.). — Early Italic bronze vessels, weapons and
utensils. — Objects found in tombs: Tomb from Chiusi, Tomba del
Guerriero (tomb of the warrior) from Corneto-Tarquinii (7th cent.);
large family tomb from the environs of Volterra (3rd cent.).—
Vases with vivaciously painted heads, recalling popular types. —
Roman vases from the Rhenish provinces. — Mycenaean vessels.
b. The New Museum.
Admission, see p. 38. — Official printed Guide, see p. 71. Lift from
Room XI of the groundfloor to Room IX of the middle story and to the
first exhibition-room of the cabinet of engravings (10 pf.).
The *New Museum was erected by Stiller in the Renaissance
style in 1843-55 (length 344 it., depth 130 ft.; height of the cen¬
tral part, with the grand staircase, 102 ft.). The exterior of this
edifice is comparatively insignificant, but its internal decorations
are rich and artistic.
The main entrance is on the E. side, opposite the National
Gallery. — The Passage (p. 74) connecting the Old and New Muse¬
ums leads to the first floor of the latter. The visitor is recom¬
mended to traverse Rooms X, XI, and XII and enter the imposing
*Staircase (PI. II), 125 ft. in length, 50 ft. in width, and 65 ft. in
height, which occupies the centre of the building. A broad flight of
steps leads from the groundfloor (see p. 79) to the first story, and
two narrower ones from the first to the second (p. 82).
Six colossal *Mural Paintings by IP", von. Kaulbach, executed
in 1847-66, representing important epochs in the history of mankind,
adorn the upper walls of the staircase: 1. Building of the Tower of
Babel (division of nations); 2. Golden Age of Greece (Homer and
the Greeks); 3. Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (rise of Christ¬
ianity) ; 4. Battle of the Huns (wandering of the nations); 5. The
Crusaders before Jerusalem under Godfrey de Bouillon (middle
ages); 6. The Reformation. — Over the doors are figures of Tra¬
dition and History, Science and Poetry. Between the large pictures