| dc.coverage.spatial | Site: Boston, Massachusetts, United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1887-1895 (creation) | en_US |
| dc.creator | McKim, Mead, and White | en_US |
| dc.creator | Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre | en_US |
| dc.date | 1887-1895 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-07T17:34:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-05-07T17:34:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1887-1895 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | 214224 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | archrefid: 168 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/121612 | |
| dc.description | Court, frontal view of the lower east façade, looking up, depicting the projection of the stair bay; The other style of national importance to emerge from Boston in the 1880s was a resurgent neo-classicism led by McKim, Mead & White. Their most influential building, the imposing Boston Public Library, drew on Italian Renaissance, Roman and contemporary French sources. Throughout the building sculpture and mural painting were incorporated in rooms panelled with rare marbles, creating what the Library Trustees called a 'Place for the People'. The murals include those of 1895-1896 (by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes) and 1894 (by Edwin Austin Abbey and John Singer Sargent) and with bronze bas-relief doors by Daniel Chester French. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 12/2/2007) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | stone; marble; fresco and mural painting | en_US |
| dc.rights | © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. | en_US |
| dc.subject | architectural exteriors | en_US |
| dc.subject | Renaissance Revival | en_US |
| dc.subject | Neoclassical | en_US |
| dc.title | Boston Public Library | en_US |
| dc.type | image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | 1A1-MM-BP-C5 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | construction (assembling) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | library (building) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | McKim, Mead, and White (American architectural firm, 1879-1910); Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French painter, 1824-1898) | en_US |
