Boston Public Library (Boston, MA) : North façade, the cornice
- Creator:
- McKim, Mead, and White, 1879-1910
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 1824-1898 - Published/Created:
- Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
1887-1895 - Date Depicted:
- 8/1/1994
1850 AD - 1899 AD - Materials:
- fresco and mural painting
marble
stone - Notes:
- 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.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- United States -- 19th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Neoclassical
Renaissance Revival - Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-MM-BP-B8
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
libraries (buildings) (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors construction buildings; libraries (buildings)
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Base Collection
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
8/1/1994 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10090783
- PID:
- digcoll:1803060