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spiiit of progress ought to take place earlier than anywhere eise 
in that country in which the noblest forms liave tlieir liome. 
Looking over the publications issued tkroughout the world for 
purposes of art-instruction during the last twenty years, we shall 
find that certainly two-thirds of their contents are taken from the 
monuments of Italy. England, France, Germany, and Austria 
have drawn upon the treasures of this country for the education of 
their own art, and have employed them as means for the improve- 
ment of taste. 
So far the political condition of Italy has undoubtedly been the 
Principal cause why the materials to be found in the country have 
not been turned to advantage more independently. Now that the 
uuity has been attained which was so long striven for, a more satis- 
factory activity may also be expected in the dircction of art. The 
later publications for instruction in drawing and in art consist 
mainly of photographs, which, as is well known, have been 
brought to the highest state of perfection in Italy, especially for 
the reproduction of paintings, &c. Besides large copies of the 
pamtings of the classical masters, we must not forget to mention 
the highly mteresting and superior publication of the drawings in 
the Pmakotheka of Venice, by A. Srini. The old city of the 
Tiber, with its surroundings, appeared bodily at the exhibition in 
the splendid pictures (by Fratelli Rosa) published under the title, 
“Sülle Scoperte Archeologiche nelle Cittä e Provincia di Roma 
negli Anni 1871-1872.” 
Of lithographic works we may finally mention “ Racolta di Or 
nament!,” from terra-cottas at Siena (fifteenth and sixteenth Cen 
times) by S. Rotellini and G. Breuci (Siena, 1873), consisting of 
charming Renaissance motives composed for the most varied 
spaces ; and “ Musaici Christiani e Saggi Pavimenti della Chiese 
dl R i oma ” (fifteenth Century), by G. B. di Rossi, beautifully exe- 
cuted in cliromolithograi^hy.