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.)
Eurydice, by Furio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Wild Flower, by Edward Berge.
Young Mother with Child, by Furio Piccirilli. (To right.)
Wood Nymph, by Isidore Konti.
Young Pan, by Janet Scudder, (To left.)
Michael Angelo, by Robert Aitken. (To right.)
Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus, by Edward Berge. (To left.)
Flying Cupid, by Janet Scudder.
Piping Pan, by Louis St. Gaudens.
Circle at South End of Peristyle
Bust of William Howard Taft, by Robert Aitken. (To right.)
Henry Ward Beecher, by John Quincy Adams Ward.
Bust of Halsey C. Ives, by Victor S. Holm. (To left.)
Seated Lincoln, by Augustus St. Gaudens.
South of Lagoon
Kirkpatrick Monument, by Gail Sherman Corbett, Indian pointing out
spring to Jesuit priest. (To right on roadway running back of palace.)
American Bisons, by A. P. Proctor. (Sides of roadway.)
Peace, by Sherry E. Fry. (To left.)
Diana, by Haig Patigian.
Fountain: Wind and Spray, by Anna Coleman Ladd. (In lagoon, south end.)
The Scout, by Cyrus E. Dallin.
Sea Lions, by Frederick G. R. Roth.
Court of Palms
Court of Palms, by Kelham; opposite Palace of Horticulture, between
Palaces of Education and Liberal Arts. Italian Renaissance. Sunken
garden.
Palaces at sides of court: to the west, Education; to the east, Liberal
Arts.
"The End of the Trail," equestrian statue at entrance, by James Earl
Fraser. Exhausted Indian, suggests destiny of the American Indian race.
Italian Towers, Byzantine influence, by Kelham. Both sides of entrance
to court; identical. Simpler than towers at Court of Flowers, to cast.
Coloring of towers, by Jules Guerin. Walls frankly treated, not as
stone, but as plaster, after Italian method. Blue checkered border, pink
and blue diaper design; turquoise columns on little towers above, in
harmony with domes and columns of Tower of Jewels.
Design on top, repeated four times at corners, from choragic monument of
Lysicrates, in Venice.
Sienna columns at entrances of towers. Effective contrast.
Reclining women, purely decorative, in triangular spaces above entrances
to towers, by Albert Weinert.
Figures on side of shield over all portals, very graceful. Pink and
turquoise.
"The Fairy," crowning Italian Towers, Carl Gruppe.
Female figures, the caryatides on wide frieze, above columns, by Calder
and John Bateman, of New York. Flushed pink, against pink and blue
background of imitation marble and terra cotta.
Festoons of fruit in panels, blues and reds.
Coupled Ionic columns, smoked. Effective against pink walls.
Vases, before entrances, by Weinert. Bacchanalian revels, low relief.
Satyr handles.
Lighting standards on balustrade, designed by Ryan, modeled by
Denneville.
"Pool of Reflections," no sculpture.
Italian cypresses, on sides of portals.
Balled acacias between columns on corridors.
Palms, in garden.
Corridors, pink walls, blue ceiling.
Lamp standards, smoked ivory globes. Designed by Kelham, modeled by
Denneville.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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