The Dresden Picture Gallery. for which the city is hest known, is located in the museum of the Zwinger, and contains upward of 2500 canvases. The is especially rich in 'Italian and Dutch works. Among the numerous Italian mas ters represented are, first of all. Raphael with his most celebrated picture. "The Sistine Madonna": Andrea del Sart(); Correggio ("Holy Night") ; Titian ("The Tribute Money") ; Palma Veeehio ("Venus and the Graces"). Paolo Tin toretto, Caravaggio Card Sharper"). and Ribero are also to be seen here to advantage. Of the Spanish Velasquez and are represented by one fine picture each :Master pieces of the Flemish school are especially 1111111er 011s, including the "Roar Bunt" and other famous canvases by Milieus. admirable portraits by Van Dyek, and a number of pictures by Jordaens and Teniers the Elder. Among the Dutch masters are Rembrandt (portraits of himself and his wife, and "Manorth's Sacrifice"). Frans ilals, G. Don. Adriaan van Ostade; Rnysdael. Paul Potter, Van der ikleer. Terburg% and Metzu. The Freneh school:: of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are represented by landseapes of Claude Lorrain and examples of Pouissin and Watteau. Of the man seliod. Ihdhei(( and 1)iirer are the vonspicii tai• figures. Besides the picture gallery, the )111.1-. 11111 Collt a 1/1 or 3511000 wood-cuts :mil (01) 4 111:1%1N lugs. _Among other collections in 1)res den 1.1a4 be mentioned that of the precious stones. ,ieuels. etc.. in the famous Green Vault of the royal palace. There is also the collection of ancient and modern arms, implements. and cos tumes in the 31liseinn Jo muneum. one of the coin Heti -t historical museums in Germany.
Dresden is administered by a chief burgomas ter. taro burgomasters, tliirt -three aldermen, se• 11114'11 assessors and referendaries, and a council 4'1 72 member-. The municipality owns and man ages its water-works. gas plant, ?nd an electric plant. as well as the abattoirs. The cleaning of the streets is done entirely by the municipality at an annual east of about is1,10.ti00. and Dresden is considered of the tidiest cities in Germany. The total annual expenditures of the city exceed 27,0011.000 marks I is6.426.0001, of which nearly on•-fiftli is spent on education. •hc municipal debt amounted. at the end of P-190. to 5•.500.000 marks and the assets to 104.500. 11110 marks ($24.s71,000). The 1)resden Bank is a very large and important institution.
The manufacturing industries and commerce of the city of eonsideralde importance. Note (vorthy products are machinery. pianos. gold and silver articles, paper, and porcelain. The publi
cation of book- and the production 4 If art objects of various kinds are very extensive. Dresden is the seat of consular representatives from 1111111er 1)11, e tries. ineluding the United States. The eonitn•rve is considerable. mostly by rail. The completion of its fine harbor will undoubtedly give a to transportation. In 1.;:34 the population was 73.614: in 1352, 104.500; in ltisai, 220.8H: in 1A00. by the annexation of Strehlen and St riesen, it inereased to 2S9.S4 I. In 18'1.1 further annexation of suburbs raised the figure to 354.2.5. while in ]11110 the total reached a50.310. The climate of Dresden is marked by frequent and sudden changes. The suburbs along the picturesque Ellae as far as Pillnitz are very attractive, with their ea sties, beautiful villas, and interesting assoidations in connection with the lives of many famous Germans.
Illsrortv. Dresden is of Slavic origin. It was first called a city in 1210. At the end of the thir teenth century it became the residence of the of Aleissen, but did not begin to grow before the V1141 of the fifteenth century, when it passed to the _libertine line. Its fortifications were begun in the sixteenth century. 'Ninny eon sideralde and attractive improvements were made lw .Tolin George II., ineluding, the Grosse Garten, and under the rule of Augustus II. and Ill. 11101 171:1) became one of the finest I ities of Europe. The old part was ruined by the tire of 111'45, and was rebuilt as the Neustaill by .Augustus 1. in 1732. The Seven Years' War put an end to the growth of the •ity. and the horn bardinent of 171111 by the Prussians destroyed many ,,f its building-. During the Napoleonie war- Dresden suffered considerably. In 1AI:1 it was converted by Napoleon into a great arsenal. and here he uon his last vietory 4 In soil. or.) In I517 the fortifi cations were demolished to give N% ay to prome nade.. N\ ith the opening of the Elbe to naviga ti• n. and the of railways, the city began to gnew irk ee01101111C a mil.. 111111 it s progress was only slightly retarded by the politi cal nplica‘als of 1S4s-49. In 1S1iti Dresden %vas taken by the Prussians. %Oro held it until the end of 1s07. Consult : 1.indau. Gest/tie/at (1( r 1.-cm(y n (Inapt- and letsidet etzsindi I) re.sde n (1)re. den, Isst-s5i 11 re...11( a and new.
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