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Updated: June 23, 2025
In the corners of the ambulatory about the Court of Ages, crystallizing the color and design of its long, arched ceiling, are the opulent, warm, vibrant murals by Frank Brangwyn. They introduce to the general public of America this Belgian-English artist who has long been esteemed among the great of the world.
In the second Air panel, which is called "The Hunters," the air supports the arrows just shot from the bows of hunters who hide behind the last trees at the edge of a wood. It bears also flocks of homing birds and light clouds blown across a ruddy sunset sky. Half Dome Court of the Four Seasons The murals in the Court of the Four Seasons are the work of Milton Herbert Bancroft.
An artist's dream in romantic Orientalism Mullgardt's own title for it His great "Tower of the Ages" Mullgardt interprets his architectural masterpiece Brangwyn's splendid murals, "Earth," "Air," "Fire" and "Water" The "Fountain of Earth," by Robert Aitken, realism set amidst the romantic. The Court of the Universe is not Oriental, the Court of the Ages is.
Saveur cathedral, a noble structure of solid marble with glorious murals within to remind the Slavic people of their unconquerable resistance to the great Napoleon and of his disastrous retreat from their beloved Moscow.
It was slow work because they had to use the heat ray pistols to supply the necessary energy for the molecular motion. When they finally broke through, they found they had entered on the second floor; the deep snow had buried the first. Before them stretched a long, richly decorated hall, painted with great colored murals.
Tower of Jewels, interior of main arch, accentuated by lights at sides above columns; no illumination on murals. In niches at either side, Fountains of Youth and El Dorado, flood-lighted from above; no colored lights; two single lamp standards in each court; reflection of fountain figures in pools. On the Way to the Marina Lighting of colonnades, vivid pinks and blues.
Play of lights along colonnade; lighting on murals adds to apparent distance. North Entrance to Court of the Ages Similar treatment of lights, brighter than in central court; four star clusters, sixteen serpent cauldrons; effect heightened. Tower, more beautiful from Marina side; note of refinement illumination in altar, shadow in two colors, created by red light illuminated by pale amber lights.
Other interesting murals appear in Italy's pavilion, by Pierretto Banco and Bruno Ferrari, son of the sculptor, Ettore Ferrari. The Riches of California Tea Room, California Building The tea-room of the Auxiliary to the Woman's Board, in the California Building, was decorated by Florence Lundborg, a Californian whose work has won consideration in this country and in France.
Above the severely treated doorways, in each recess, are two mural paintings by Milton Bancroft, picturing alternately the seasonal pleasures and pastimes and their activities or industries. The murals, with the two in the half-dome, also by Milton Bancroft, are all conventionally classic, in keeping with the spirit and atmosphere of the Court.
Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled. from "Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman the American poet; "Truth, witness of the past, councillor of the present, guide of the future," from "Don Quixote," by Cervantes, the Spanish novelist. Murals in Arch of the Setting Sun, by Frank Vincent Du Mond of New York.
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