Show I FAMED IVORY CHRIST CHRISTIS IS FOUND IN PARIS The great reat figure of Christ carved from rom ivory to picture His sufferings suffering as He died against the cross which Michelangelo sculpted more than four fou centuries ago to be enshrined in the Temple of Minerva in Rome and lost los when Napoleon marched into the city has been found in Paris among the heirlooms which became the dowry of ot an aged French woman Experts have pronounced the picture pic pie ture lure in the possession of oC Madame Madam Pain to be the Michelangelo original The 1 figure cure is two feet teet high ex exquisitely exquisitely ex- ex carved and with patina which four centuries allows It i is placed against a faded laded mauve brocade and framed with a hand carved gilded gild gild- cd ed frame showing the handiwork o ot of artists of or the period of Louis XV Napoleon and his army made i it their practice to select the masterpieces masterpieces masterpieces master master- pieces of art from the cities which they took and in that way the ivory Christ left Rome Nothing was heard of or it until Madame Pain asked experts experts ex ex- to place a value upon the piece of or ivory now a tobacco brown in color Experts declare that the ivory carving carving carving ing is an epitome of oC anatomical re re- re- re search Overtures have been made to return the Christ to Rome possibly to the Vatican collection because of its beauty even if iC it is not proved to be bethe bethe bethe the original and missing gelo |