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.)
Niches in wall, colored pink and blue. Heads of lions and elephants used
as fountains, alternately by Faville.
Panel over niches, figures with garland, by Faville.
Festival Hall
Festival Hall, Robert Farquhar, of Los Angeles, architect. Modern French
architecture, of the Beaux Arts style, Paris. Used in many French
theatres; not a natural growth in this country, but growing in favor;
building arrangement fine. Details from Le Petit and Le Grand Trianon.
Coloring. light green, not so effective as on Horticultural Palace,
popular with French architects.
Figure on corner domes, "The Torch Bearer," Sherry F. Fry, of New York.
Figures on sides of shield over big central arch, by Fry. Decorative.
West entrance.
Reclining figures, above, on sides of entrance, by Fry. To right,
Bacchus with grapes and wine-skin. To left, a woman listening.
Groups in front of ball, on sides of stairway, by Fry. "Flora," flower
girl on pedestal, repeated. On left below pedestal, "Young Pan," seated
on Ionic capital covered with fawn skin, his music arrested by sight of
lizard. On right, young girl seated.
Greek drinking horns, rhytons, repeated around entrance, on cornice,
suggest festivity.
Symbol of Music, the lyre, above entrance.
Recital Hall, on the second floor of Festival Hall, eastern end,
contains fine stained glass windows. Designer and executor, Charles J.
Connick, of Boston. Three windows, a small one or, the landing of the
north stairway, and two larger ones on the west wall of the hall itself.
On the stairway. Figure of a young monk bearing a scroll inscribed with
"Venite exultamus domin" ("Come, let us exalt the Lord").
In the hall, window to the left. In the large tipper section, a figure
of St. Martha of Bethany. Below, Christ and three women, one kneeling.
In the hall, window to the right. In the large tipper section, figures
of two men, the wise men, one watching the star, one seated reading; an
owl and a lantern in the window also. In the small section below, a ship
with a cross on the main sail; the cross is of the design used in the
Crusades.
Court of Flowers
Court of Flowers, by Kelham. Italian Renaissance, Byzantine touches.
Opposite Festival Hall, between Palaces of Varied Industries and Mines.
Details different from Court of Palms; ornament richer.
Figure on tower, "The Fairy," by Carl Gruppe.
Palaces at sides of court: to the west, Manufactures; to the east,
Varied Industries.
Italian towers, by Kelham, same feeling. Outlines on top different from
those in Court of Palms.
"The American Pioneer," equestrian statue at entrance, by Solon Borglum,
of New York. Patriarchal. Suggests Joaquin Miller. Warlike trappings of
horse picturesque, but sixteenth century Spanish, out of place.
Spanish loggia around second story of court, southern in feeling,
implying warm climate.
"Oriental Flower Girl," female figure in niches along loggia, by Calder.
Griffons around frieze on top of columns.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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