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...monuments, the Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve statues of Founders of Naumburg cathedral; and here again it may be pointed out that no other museum anywhere contains as full a reproduction of this extraordinary group of monuments. And similar things may be said of our representation of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture...
...pillars forming alcoves. A cast of the "Golden Gate" of the Freiburg Cathedral at its further end forms the entrance to the Gothic Hall beyond. This arrangement is copied from the crossing and choir of a church. It also gives an appropriate location for a cast of the rood screen of Naunberg Cathedral. The Renaissance hall, easily the largest, is seventy feet long by fifty wide, and has a flat ceiling supported by columns which divide the hall into two parts...
...ceiling supported by pillars forming alcoves; and a cast of the "Golden Gate" to Freiberg Cathedral as its further end forms the entrance to the Gothic Hall beyond, which sufficiently represents the crossing and choir of a church. This arrangement provides and appropriate location for the cast of the rood screen of Naunburg Cathedral. The largest hall, given to the period of Rennaissance culture, and measuring seventy feet long by fifty feet wide, has a flat ceiling supported by columns dividing the hall into two parts...
...Gothic Hall consists of the square space beneath the tower, resembling the crossing of a church, and a choir separated from the crossing by the rood-screen of Naumburg Cathedral, so that this important monument of the transition period from Romanesque to Gothic sculpture will have the same relative place in our building which the original has at Naumburg. The other Naumburg sculptures, the twelve remarkable portrait statues of princely founders, will be placed in the choir, also in accordance with their original positions. The further development of Gothic sculpture down to the 15th...
...following men should report to the head usher: P. P. Waldrof J. K. Meller, L. H. Chenoweth, W. S. Rood, P. Snodecker, G. T. Vaught, H. C. Ames P. F. Brandage, T. A. Jenekes, D. R. Hanson, H. C. Bird, A. Heatbank, A. B. See, J. R. Dasha, P. Gustafaes