Identifier: randmcnallycospi1903rand (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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all. This is all in whitemarble of the same Corinthian style. Lofty coupled columns, with elabo.Corinthian rate acanthus capitals, support joint entablatures, whence spring theArcades. groined arches of the ceiling. North and south doorways admit to magnificent exhibition halls ; the west windows open upon a balconyoverlooking the Capitol grounds and a large part of the city, and on the east a beauti-ful stairway leads to the uppermost galleries of the Rotunda. A long time may be spent in admiring study of this superb hall, whose details areelaborate in every particular, varying constantly in small points of ornamentation, yetever consonant with the classic model, and keeping an artistic uniformity withoutmonotony. The ornamentation of the ceilings, composed of stucco in high relief set offwith gold on the eminences and bright color in the recesses, is also admirable, andbecomes very striking when applied to the vaulted canopies of the great side halls. The THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 61
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THE FAMILY.—By Charles Sprague Pearce. decoration in relief here is all the work of Mr. Martiny, and consists mainly of littlefigures (geniuses), exemplifying various conceptions and pursuits indicated by conven-tional symbols, such as the shepherds crook and pipes for Pastoral Life or Arcady, a blockof paper and a compass for Architecture, and so on ; also many cartouches and tabletsbearing the names of illustrious authors. Here the spaces surrounding the v^ell of the staircases are spoken of as corridors, ofwhich there are four — North, South, East, and West — each decorated with brush orchisel by some special artist under a harmonious plan. Certain features are continuedfrom one to the other, unifying them. The floors of all are mosaics, but the patternsvary. The ceilings are alike, barrel vaults with pendentives, the ornamentation ofwhich is similar yet varied, while to each is assigned a special orna-mentation in paintings. The color scheme was suggested by that of the Coff

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