half-dome

Updated: April 30, 2025

The very interest the Exposition has, aroused in the people that come here, whether they are artists or not, can't help being productive." Seeing the Lights Fade We went over to the South Gardens to see the lights change on the Tower of Jewels, passing the half-dome of Philosophy, the stained glass of the windows enveiling the background.

John D. (John Daniel) Barry - The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth

At the extremity is a half-dome of massive stone, over the place of the altar, and just in front of this formerly stood the pedestal whereon, according to tradition, St. Simeon Stylites commenced his pillar-life. I found a recent excavation at the spot, but no pedestal, which has probably been carried off by the Greek monks.

Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain

The semicircle of female figures in the vestibule of the dome of the Palace of Education, bearing in their hands books with the motto "Ex Libris," though the preposition is omitted, represents the store of knowledge in books. The similar array of men bearing wreaths of cereals in the half-dome of the Palace of Food Products signifies the source of vigor in the fruits of the soil.

Ben Macomber - The Jewel City

The half-dome here, as there, forms the architectural keystone, and in both buildings, the three niches on either side hold the same alternating figures.

Louis Christian Mullgardt - The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural: Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition