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But he had sworn to do his lord's bidding, and he only hesitated for a moment, looking up, Griselda saw him, and greeted him with a smile. "Enter, good Furio," she said. "See, they are both asleep. When he sleeps, my boy is most like his father; but awake, my girl's dark eyes recall him most. Have you any message from my lord, Furio?"
"Priestess of Culture," Herbert Adams, of New York; female figure surmounting columns within rotunda. Coloring of dome, burnt orange, turquoise green, Sienna columns. Youth, by Charles Carey Rumsey. An Outcast, by Attilio Piccirilli. Idyl, by Olga Popoff Muller. Dancing Nymph, by Olin L. Warner. Boy and Frog, by Edward Berge. Eurydice, by Furio Piccirilli. Wild Flower, by Edward Berge.
Furio Piccirilli, who made this marble, is the sculptor who has graced the Exposition with the four Fountains of the Seasons in the Court of that name. For this "Eurydice" and his other small group, "Mother and Child," he has taken a silver medal. Wood Nymph Garden Exhibit, Colonnade
There now remain the seven fountains of the lesser courts, connected more or less intimately in theme with their immediate surroundings. In the Court of Seasons. Four are in the Court of Seasons, where Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, by Furio Piccirilli, have each its own alcove in the wall and its own play of water. These are pleasant fountains, simple and quiet.
In voluminous, decorative draperies this female figure stands between two young orange trees, her arms about them significant of the harvest of California. Fountain of Spring Court of the Four Seasons The seasons of the year are expressed in the Court that honors them by four wall-fountains, the work of Furio Piccirilli.
Young Mother with Child, by Furio Piccirilli. Wood Nymph, by Isidore Konti. Michael Angelo, by Robert Aitken. Muse Finding the Head of Orpheus, by Edward Berge. Flying Cupid, by Janet Scudder. Piping Pan, by Louis St. Gaudens. Circle at South End of Peristyle Bust of William Howard Taft, by Robert Aitken. Henry Ward Beecher, by John Quincy Adams Ward. Bust of Halsey C. Ives, by Victor S. Holm.
She prayed with moving words, she shed such floods of tears, she gave such piteous cries of agony, that Furio, tearing the children away with one strong effort, ran from the room with the screaming infants, his own face drenched with weeping.
It is always the spirit of the work that claims you in all that he undertakes. He has done nothing finer than his "Garfield" at Cincinnati. His Astor Memorial Doors of Trinity Church, New York, his "Doctor Hahnemann" of Washington, D. C., and his "Driller," symbolic of the energy of labor, are among his best works. Furio Piccirilli
The dejected and desolate Outcast, so huge and so tragic, is in sharp contrast with the quaint and fanciful "Fawn's Toilet," by the same hand, at the entrance to the Colonnade. Attilio and Furio Piccirilli, whose work has been here noticed, are brothers, members of a family of sculptors. The Sower Garden Exhibit, Colonnade
He kneels and shoots an arrow upward; the long, pleasing curve of his bow suggests the outline of the sun above the horizon as Apollo releases his first bright shaft of light. Eurydice Garden Exhibit, Colonnade This "Eurydice," by Furio Piccirilli, pictures the nymph as standing against the background of an echoing rock, listening to the distant strains of the magic lyre of her lover, Orpheus.
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