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One of the latest buildings from the dutch period, is the large red building in dutch bricks in the “Kongens Nytorv” ; this building has—like so many others—for its architect a dutch man named Ewert Jansen, who built it for one of the King’s natural sons “Gyldenlpve”. It belonged some years to his family, and thereafter it was used in different ways until 1754, since when it has been the home of “The Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Another building made of the dark red-brown dutch briks you may find in the street “Store Kongensgade Nr. 72 originally built for a dutch merchant Deconinck. Little by little the Barocco Style began, introduced in Denmark by french artists, and their influence may be especially noticed in the then new part of Copenhagen, namely the “Set. Anna Kvarter” and the “Amalienborg Kvarter” built in the first half of the 18th Century. On the whole since that time we owe very much to the genius of the french artists. One of the first and most prominent presidents of our Royal Academy was the celebrated french sculptor Sally, who also has made the fine equestrian statue of Fr. V. on the Amalienborg Place. Another french artist who lived here at that time was the architect Jardin, who made the original project for the Marble Church; he is also said to have rebuilt the side-fagade of the so-called Thott’s Palace.—The name of Set. Anna derives from a church, Set. Anna Rotunda, that formerly stood on the site of the present infantery barracks in the street “S01vgade” ; the church was burnt and demolished in 1658—59, and its debris have been used for some of the barracks in the “Citadel of Copen­ hagen” a forteress—in some respects like the Tower of London. The other quarter, the most fashionable, owes its name to