DOI Heft:
No. 95 (February, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Knaufft, Ernest: An American decorator: Edwin H. Blashfield
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0045
Aii American Decorator
STUDY FOR THE DECORATION OK THE LANTERN
CROWN, CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON BY H- BLASHFIELD
represents a rich orange sunset behind a large oak, as the walls; the knights are clad in surcoats of
beneath which a group of young people in mediaeval white, and the standards carried by the pages are
costumes are dancing. As the room—a gothic cream white. These, together with the steel-grey
supper-room, designed by R. H. Hunt—is finished of the armour, give delicacy to the whole corn-
in rich oak and red and dark blue, the luxurious position, making it in keeping with the immense
colour of this decoration is not out of place. In Norman gothic marble fireplace it surrounds,
the overmantel decoration the grouping is simpler In the ceiling of the library of the house in Phil-
than in most of the artist's subjects. On each adelphia, designed by Messrs. Peabody and Stearns
side is a warrior of patrician bearing, accom- for Mr. G. W. C. Urexel, as in the Congressional
panied by an esquire and a standard-bearer. These Library, the arts are symbolised. The decoration
form the two sides of a triangle, at the apex of is carried out, of course, on a smaller scale, the
which is a helm with an oak-branch crest and a figures being only half life-size. Eight figures are
group of trumpeters. Under one of the knights introduced: Raphael, for Painting; St. Cecilia, for
is the inscription Vigilantia, and under the other Music; St. Francis, for Religion; Sappho, for
Fidclitas. The background is of the same blue Poetry; Harold, for Conquest; Plato, for Philo-
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STUDY FOR THE DECORATION OK THE LANTERN
CROWN, CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON BY H- BLASHFIELD
represents a rich orange sunset behind a large oak, as the walls; the knights are clad in surcoats of
beneath which a group of young people in mediaeval white, and the standards carried by the pages are
costumes are dancing. As the room—a gothic cream white. These, together with the steel-grey
supper-room, designed by R. H. Hunt—is finished of the armour, give delicacy to the whole corn-
in rich oak and red and dark blue, the luxurious position, making it in keeping with the immense
colour of this decoration is not out of place. In Norman gothic marble fireplace it surrounds,
the overmantel decoration the grouping is simpler In the ceiling of the library of the house in Phil-
than in most of the artist's subjects. On each adelphia, designed by Messrs. Peabody and Stearns
side is a warrior of patrician bearing, accom- for Mr. G. W. C. Urexel, as in the Congressional
panied by an esquire and a standard-bearer. These Library, the arts are symbolised. The decoration
form the two sides of a triangle, at the apex of is carried out, of course, on a smaller scale, the
which is a helm with an oak-branch crest and a figures being only half life-size. Eight figures are
group of trumpeters. Under one of the knights introduced: Raphael, for Painting; St. Cecilia, for
is the inscription Vigilantia, and under the other Music; St. Francis, for Religion; Sappho, for
Fidclitas. The background is of the same blue Poetry; Harold, for Conquest; Plato, for Philo-
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