The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growthBarry, John D. (John Daniel)
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The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth
Barry, John D. (John Daniel)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Eastern panel, "Struggle for the Beautiful"; in center, Truth; at sides,
Persistence and Strength, struggling with centaurs, symbols of
materialism.
Panel to left, "Power of the Arts"; Genius taming Pegasus, inspiration
in art; Wisdom inspiring Youth; Music with lyre; figures of Literature
and Sculpture.
Panel to right, "Triumph of the Arts"; Apollo, patron of arts, in
chariot; Fame, with olive branches; Ictinius, builder of Parthenon,
leads procession of devotees.
Three panels, repeated on five sides of rotunda.
Decorative figure, man and woman alternating, between panels, repeated
around rotunda.
Corinthian columns, ochre grouped with pale green ones; capitals of
burnt orange.
Flower boxes by Ulric H. Ellerhusen; women at corners. Original plan was
to have vines from boxes droop over, shoulders of women. Architect's
purpose in attitude of women to suggest sadness of art.
Roman vases, eight or ten feet high around colonnade. Massive and
graceful detail.
Sculpture Outside Fine Arts Palace Beginning at Northeast Corner of
Lagoon
North of Lagoon
The Illustrious Obscure, by Robert Paine. (Fountain on island at north
end of lagoon.)
Whaleman, by Bela L. Pratt.
Garden Group by Anna Coleman Ladd.
Dying Lion, by Paul Wayland Bartlett.
Garden Figure, Nymph, by Edmond T. Quinn.
Fragment of "Fountain of Time," by Lorado Taft. Representing the
troubled generations.
Roadway to Right Before Entering Circle
Bird Fountain, by Caroline Risque.
The First Mother, by Victor S. Holm.
Circle at North End of Peristyle
Mother of the Dead, by C. S. Pietro. (Lagoon side of circle.)
Chief Justice Marshall, by Herbert Adams. (In walk.)
Destiny, by C. P. Dietsch.
Sundial, by Edward Berge.
Head of Lincoln, by A. A. Weinman.
Fountain Groups, by Anna Coleman Ladd. Sun-God and Python, Water
Sprites, and Triton Babies. (To right.)
Sundial, by Gail Sherman Corbett.
Daughter of Pan, by R. Hinton Perry.
Boy Pan with Frog, by Clement J. Barnhorn,
Bondage, by Carl Augustus Heber. (Only feminist note in the grounds.)
Saki, Sundial, by Harriet W. Frishmuth. (In walk.)
Great Danes, by Anna Vaughan Hyatt.
Young Diana, by Janet Scudder.
Flower Urns, base of building along colonnade; Greek figures with
garlands. Ulric H. Ellerhusen.
Wall of building facing colonnade, seventeen feet high. Acacia blooming
there, suggesting over-growth, relieves severe lines of architecture.
Broken by small doors, at corners decorated with spears. Doors suggest
Greek design.
Corinthian columns and pilasters; harmony of color, smoked ivory and
ochre, with shades of green in foliage.
Urns, on the wall on either side of the doorways and in the rotunda,
designed by William G. Merchant. Suggested by urns in the Vatican, Rome.
North Peristyle (curved part colonnade north of rotunda).
Maiden of the Roman Campagna, by Albin Polasek. (To left.) Fountain:
Duck baby, by Edith Barretto Parsons.
A Fawn's Toilet, by Attilio Piccirilli.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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