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.)
Lamps in corridors Roman, hanging. Light pink, green, and cream;
effective. By Kelham.
Murals, in corridors, at east, north, and west portals.
"Pursuit of Pleasure," east arch, Charles W. Holloway. Light touch,
bright reds and blues in keeping with court; difficult use of floating
figure.
"Victorious Spirit," north arch, Arthur F. Mathews. Spirit of
Enlightenment protecting Youth from Materialism, symbolized by rampant
horse and the rider, Brute Force. Arrangement good, coloring deep and
beautiful.
"Fruits and Flowers," west arch, Childe Hassam. Early Italian.
Symbolism, obvious. Warmth of color.
Vista from south, graceful curve of court, view through north portal
through Court of the Four Seasons, long colonnade, to purple bills and
bay beyond.
Palace of Horticulture
Palace of Horticulture, Bakewell & Brown, architects, San Francisco.
Architecture dome and spires Byzantine, suggest mosque of Ahmed the
First, in Constantinople. Ornamentation Renaissance, popular with modern
French architects.
Basket on top of dome, 33 feet in diameter.
Dome, 186 feet in height, 152 feet in diameter steel construction St.
Peter's, 137 feet, concrete. Pantheon, 142 feet, concrete.
Ornamental shafts, suggestive of minarets, in French style.
Semi-circular colonnade forming entrances, French lattice-work.
Hanging lamp, in entrances, flower basket design; elaborate.
Lamps, hanging along porches, simple design.
Female figures at base of spires, by Eugene Louis Boutier; purely
ornamental.
Lavish decorations on building suggest variety and abundance of
California horticulture. Floral designs; green wreaths with fruit
motives and leaves; lamps; flowered shields over doorway; decorated
columns; entrance under green lattice-work; great ornamental vases on
sides.
Female figures used as columns supporting roof of porch, the caryatides,
by John Bateman.
Building suggests festivity, done in exposition spirit.
Coloring, green, old copper. Green lattice-work in domes.
Along the South Wall, West of the Tower of Jewels
South Wall, by Faville. Spanish Renaissance. Domes, Byzantine.
Palaces facing Avenue of Palms, from west to east: Education,
Palace Liberal Arts, Manufactures, and Varied Industries.
Vases beside doorways of Palace of Education, finely designed; pedestal
of one, a Corinthian capital; of the other, an Ionic capital.
Main portals, Faville. Suggest Roman gateway. Coloring, pink, turquoise
blue, and burnt orange; accentuates sculpture. Duplicated on Palaces of
Manufactures and Liberal Arts.
Panel over doorway, by Mahonri Young, Ogden, Utah; figures of domestic
life and industries, making of glass, metal work, statuary, textiles.
Figures at side, to left, woman with spindle; to right, man with
sledge-hammer.
Flat columns at side of portals, pilasters. Corinthian.
Lion, over centerpiece of arch.
"Victory," on gables by Louis Ulrich, like the winged figure used by the
Greeks, " Blessings on this house."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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