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Show i ART SCHOOL GAVE BENEDICT PLEASURE H ROME, Jan. 28 Pope Benedict de H' rived much pleasure from the school H r tapestry nhich he caused to be es- B labllshed among the many workers H wno Epend their lives in decorating or H repairing the immense palace or the BBBBBBB. B The school Is now in full working BBBBBBH order and producing beautiful painted BBBBBBBJ copies of the tapestry pictures It is V housed in some of the rooms of the old papal mint, off the Vatican gardens H and after his afternoon walk, the HBBBM pope sometimes looked In to see how B 'be work was progressing and to or fl der fresh subjects B The school has just completed a HBBBm copy of Crivelli's Madonna, In the vat- H can picture gallery, which it has tak- B H months to produce, and the pon H Lifl ordered a reproduction of the up- r per part of Raphael's marvelous Dis- H puta" which will measure 12 squtfre H yards, and will require seven or eight H! ears to complete B The Vatican contains the most glo- Hj rlous tapestries in the world, many of H them almost unknown lo the general Hj public. There are the famous Raph- B aoi tapestries in the stance; the fit H leenth century tapestries of the Bor H gla apartment; the incomparable Par H nese tapestries and those given by H Louis IV of France to (he pope of Hi |