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Flower boxes, in walls of niches near top and at top; African dew plant hanging over edge; give note of age and break sharp outline of wall against sky, and contrast with color of background. Southwest corner, "Spring," by Piccirilli. Young woman with floral garland, man adoring, Flora bringing flowers. Northwest corner, "Summer," by Piccirilli. Group expresses fruition.
Within the sheltered niches are the fountains of the four seasons, where the water, rose-tinted by day and a luminous green by night, slips softly and musically over three broadening semicircular terraces to the cool, green pool beneath. The sculptured groups, surmounting the terraced fountains, are by Furio Piccirilli of New York.
The groups are by Furio Piccirilli. The Fountain of Ceres is in the north extension of the court, between the Palace of Food Products and the Palace of Agriculture. The surmounting figure is of Ceres, Greek goddess of the fields and especially of corn. The bas-relief frieze represents a group of dancers, suggestive of the seasonal festivals of the Greeks.
The muscles are all lax the head is drooping, the arms are closing in around the face, the wings are folding, the knees are bending and she too will soon sink to slumber with the world in her arms. What a fine contrast of feeling between the tense young "Sun" and relaxed "Descending Night." Winter Furio Piccirilli, Sculptor Naked Winter stands before you.
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
It makes the figures seem life-like. The work reminds me of the figure of The Outcast, by the sculpter's brother, Attilio Piccirilli, that we shall see in the colonade of the Fine Arts Palace. So many sculptors like to secure these smooth, meaningless surfaces that excite admiration among those people who care for mere prettiness.
"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.
The gallery, the low wing at the upper corner, with lunettes in sculpture by Sherry Fry, Phillip Martiny, Charles Keck, and Attilio Piccirilli, contains pictures by Titian, Paul Veronese, Velasquez, Murillo, Van Dyck, Franz Hals, Rembrant, Daubigny, Corot, Diaz, Manet, Millet, Rousseau, Troyon, Constable, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney, Turner, and Whistler.
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
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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