Identifier: internationalstu38newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors:
Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
was to bind the three portals together into one This constituted the lowermost story, for the wall was high and blank abovethese five round arches.Then the second story, ar-chitecturally speaking, wasan arcade of fifteen arches,with slender shafts to carrythem, and an arcade of fivearches to the north of thisand kept within the widthof the slender campanile.Above this, again, rose thefive arched windows, andabove those the gable, filledwith an arcade followingthe rake, even as now. Our photograph. Fig. i,shows a wholly new struc-ture built slightly in ad-vance of the old church andcarried from corner to cor-ner without break, so thatthe formerly projectingdoorpiece on the south andthe campanile on the northare alike masked by thisnew frontispiece. The ar-cade of fifteen arches abovethe middle doorway is theold one, though rebult,and so is the arcade of fivearches above the northerndoorway, while that of fourarches above the southerndoorway is, with its pilas-ters and crowning gable, a
Text Appearing After Image:
NORTH PORTAL ST. BARTHOLOMEWS PHILIP MARTINY, SCULPTOR MkIM, mead & WHITE, ARCHITECTS XIX 5/. Bartholomew s Facade task of designing the maindoorway, with its enrichedarchitraves and pilasters,its highly wrought lintel forthe doorway proper, itsstoried tympanum and thebronze valves themselves.Mr. French, indeed, askedand had the sen^ices of )Mr.Andrew OConnor, towhom he has always givenmost willingly full credit fora great share of the work.The southern doorway withall its detailed richness,nearly as described abovein the case of the main one,was the work of Mr. Her-bert Adams; that of thenorthern doorway was, inlike manner, that of Mr.Philip Martiny. It is prob-able, however, that themore simple decorativeparts, such as the sculp-tured voussoirs of the outerarch in the northern andsouthern portals, the capi-tals of the columns, andprobably the enrichedmoldings and such likepurely architectural orna-mentation, are rather thework of the architects them-selves and of their deco-rati

Note About Images