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.)
Corridors, pink walls, smoked olive columns with orange capitals.
Against wall, Corinthian coupled pilasters.
Roman banging lamps, by Kelham, suggest bronze, great weight. Bronze,
pink, green, and cream. Italian bronze lanterns suggest blue eucalyptus.
Lamp standards between columns, globe half concealed, by Kelham. Charm
of effect, improvement on those with globe wholly visible.
Conventionalized lions in pairs at portals, by Albert Laessle, of
Philadelphia.
Fountain, "Beauty and the Beast," by Edgar Walter, of San Francisco.
Sandals and hat on woman. Beast at her feet. Fauns and satyrs, piping,
under circular bowl. Frieze outside edge of bowl, lion, bear, ape, and
tiger repeated; playful. Designed for Court of Palms to be seen from
above.
Lophantha trees, trimmed four feet from ground, branching out six feet
across, along walks.
Vista through fairy-like Court of the Ages to Florentine Tower and blue
sky beyond, from south entrance of Court of Flowers.
Along the South Wall, East of Tower of Jewels
Palaces facing Avenue of Palms, from east to west: Varied Industries,
Manufactures, Liberal Arts, Education.
South facade of Palace of Varied Industries, by Faville. High walls,
seventy feet in height, suggest eighteenth century California missions.
Green domes on corners, Byzantine, inspired by mosques of
Constantinople.
Coloring of flags, cerulean blue, pastel red, and burnt orange.
Windows in corners, mosque design. Little hexagonal kiosks at corners
below domes, Moorish.
Central portal, after portal of Santa Cruz Hospital, in Toledo, Spain.
Sixteenth century Spanish Renaissance, plateresque. Lattice-work effect
in doorway in harmony with lace-like silver-platter style. Niche walls
pink, with ultramarine blue.
Pope Calixtus III sent for a Spanish goldsmith, Diaz, to do work for him
in Rome. Diaz returned to Spain, carrying the influence of the Italian
Renaissance. He met the son of the architect of the cathedral at Toledo,
De Egas. To the son he imparted his knowledge and the son applied it to
architecture, creating the plateresque style. Till then all Spanish
cathedrals had shown the Gothic influence from the north.
Figures on large door by Stackpole. Upper figures, "Age Transferring His
Burden to Youth," America. Figure in center piece of arch, "Power of
Industry," the American workman. Figures in half circle above door,
"Varied Industries," from left to right, Spinning, Building,
Agriculture, Manual Labor, and Commerce. Figure repeated four times in
lower niches, "Man with the Pick."
"California Bear" and "California Shield" on buttresses, or square
columns supporting wall. Used in old mission buildings.
Avenue of Progress
Planting, some of the best landscape effects in Exposition. Against
buildings, Monterey cypress; banked by Lawson cypress in front and
between these, spruces and Spanish fir.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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