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.)
Apollo, by Haig Patigian. (To right.)
The Scalp, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
Primitive Man, by Olga Popoff Muller.
Youth, by Victor D. Salvatore. (To right.)
Soldier of Marathon, by Paul Noquet. (To left.)
Fountain: Fighting Boys, by Janet Scudder.
Garden Figure, by Edith Woodman Burroughs. (To right.)
L'Amour, by Evelyn Beatrice Longman. (To right.)
Returning from the Hunt, by John J. Boyle. (To left.)
Boy with Fish, by Bela L. Pratt. (To right.)
The Centaur, by Olga Popoff Muller.
The Sower, by Albin Polasek.
Beyond, by Chester Beach. (By main doorway.)
Aspiration, by Leo Lentelli. (Over main doorway.)
Pioneer Mother Monument, by Charles Grafly. (Before main doorway.)
Portrait of a Boy, by Albin Polasek. (Outside west archway.)
The Awakening, by Lindsey Morris Sterling. (Outside west archway.)
"Sculpture," relief on walls of west archway. Bela L. Pratt.
Rotunda, Entrance Through North Archway
William Cullen Bryant, by Herbert Adams. (At northwest archway.)
Lafayette, by Paul Weyland Bartlett. (Center of rotunda.)
The Young Franklin, by Robert Tait.
Princeton Student Memorial, by Daniel Chester French.
"Architecture," relief by Richard H. Recchia.
Commodore John Barry, by John J. Boyle.
"Architecture," relief by Richard H. Recchia.
Lincoln, by Daniel Chester French.
Thomas Jefferson, by Karl Bitter. (Outside southwest arch way.)
Murals in dome of rotunda, Robert Reid. Two series of paintings, four in
each, "Birth and Influence of Art," alternating with "The Four Golds of
California."
"Birth of Oriental Art," panel on west wall, toward main doorway. Man on
dragon attacking eagle, heavenly bird of inspiration. China, man in
bright robe. Japan, woman with parasol.
"Gold," panel to right, woman with wand; sits on horn of plenty pouring
gold.
"Ideals of Art," panel to right. Greek ideal, nude. Religion Madonna and
child. Heroism, Joan of Arc. Material youthful beauty, woman at left.
Nature without inspiration or ideal, peacock. Figures with wreath and
palm, rewards of art.
"Poppies," panel to right, second gold of California.
"Birth of European Art," panel to right. Altar with divine fire,
guardian with torch. Mortal in chariot grasps torch of inspiration.
Woman in lower corner with crystal globe, predicting future of art.
"Oranges," panel to right, third gold of California.
"Inspiration of Art," panel to right. Angels of inspiration above.
Figures of Sculpture, Architecture, Painting, Music, and Poetry.
"Wheat," panel to right, fourth gold of California.
"Priestess of Culture," Herbert Adams, of New York; female figure
surmounting columns within rotunda.
Coloring of dome, burnt orange, turquoise green, Sienna columns.
South Peristyle (curved colonnade).
Youth, by Charles Carey Rumsey. (To south of doorway.)
An Outcast, by Attilio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Idyl, by Olga Popoff Muller.
Dancing Nymph, by Olin L. Warner.
Boy and Frog, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
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