konti

Updated: June 20, 2025

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.

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

A foreign sculptor living in New York, Isidore Konti has steadily risen in the excellence of his work until to-day he stands among the foremost American sculptors. He was born at Vienna, in 1862.

Juliet Helena Lumbard James - Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts

He has exhibited at several Expositions, has done considerable municipal work the finest figure probably being his "Baron Steuben," of Washington and many fine portraits. His "Uncle Joe Cannon" in the Fine Arts Palace, shows his power as a portraitist. His work has brought him decorations from the German Emperor. Isidore Konti

Juliet Helena Lumbard James - Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts

Isidore Konti designed the frieze typifying the swarming generations, by Matthew Arnold called "the teeming millions of men," and to Hermon A. MacNeil fell the task of developing the circular frieze of toilers, sustaining the group at the top, three strong figures, the dominating male, ready to shoot his arrow straight alit to its mark, a male supporter, and the devoted woman, eager to follow in the path of advance.

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

The amount was gradually reduced till it finally reached three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. It was at this period that Calder submitted his plan for the Column of Progress. He had worked it out in New York and had the scale models made by MacNeil and Konti.

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

Having at length crossed the prairie without accident, the caravan people shook our hands, congratulated one another, and declared that they owed their lives to us. About an hour after sunset we arrived at Abtidon's home, a large kraal at the foot of the Konti cone: fear of lions drove my people into the enclosure, where we passed a night of scratching.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - First Footsteps in East Africa