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Updated: June 25, 2025
A plain wall becomes a matter of interest and comfort. An ornamental feature or sculpture obtains a wonderful charm and delicacy in this material which is particularly unique in sculpture. The natural Travertine is a sedimentary deposit dating back, it is claimed, to the glacial ages.
The hue, black and white marbles, like the Baptistery, turned also yellow and brown, is greatly preferable to the buff travertine of St. Peter's. From the Duomo it is but a moderate street's length to the Piazza del Gran Duca, the principal square of Florence.
The central group of Exposition structures really a single vast palace, behind a rampart Historical fitness of such architecture here The south facade Spanish portals of Varied Industries and Education Palaces Italian Renaissance portals of Manufactures and Liberal Arts, and of the Courts of Flowers and Palms The Roman west wall Ornate doorway of north facade Interior courts and aisles A balanced plan This the first exposition to adopt the colors of nature for its structures Jules Guerin's color scheme, designed for an artificial travertine marble Simplicity of his palette, from which he painted the entire Exposition Even the flowers and sanded walks conform.
A formalized Atlas is represented in the center, and at each side are seven of his daughters, the Pleiades and the Hyades, whom the gods changed into stars. Twelve of the maidens have plaques bearing the symbols of the Zodiac. The frieze is well composed and beautifully modeled, but the rough Travertine does not do it justice.
Deep Cerulean Blue and Oriental Blue, verging upon green, are used in the ceilings and other vaulted recesses, in deep shadows, in coffers and in the background or ornamentation in which travertine rosettes are set in cerulean blue panels. It might be called electric blue. It is brilliant and at the same time in harmony with the other colors. Gray, very similar to the travertine.
Look at the field over there, where the oxen are; they have walled it in with fragments dug up out of the earth, the remnants of a city." She just bent her head, in sign of sympathy. A minute or two after, she held out to him the two stones she had taken up. "How cold one is, and how warm the other!" One was marble, one travertine.
"Some critics," I said, "have complained of the coloring and the pattern on those towers." "They can't justify themselves, however. Though this plaster looks like Travertine, it nevertheless remains plaster, and it lends itself to plastic decoration. The Greeks and the Romans often used plaster, and they did not hesitate to paint it whenever they chose.
The permanency of nature and the vanity of human life seemed here to acquire new significance. The spot on which I sat commands one of the finest views of Rome and the surrounding country. Down below to the left is the enormous group of buildings connected with St Peter's and the Vatican, whose yellow travertine glows in the afternoon sun like dead gold.
The views of the stranger appeared to me now to make it probable that the calcareous water had issued from ancient leaks in the aqueduct and formed a hillock that had encased the bricks of the erection, which in other parts, where not encrusted by travertine, had become entirely decayed, degraded, and removed from the soil. I mentioned the circumstance and my suspicion of its nature.
She so remained below therefore, while Pansy guided her undiscriminating aunt to the steep brick staircase at the foot of which the custodian unlocks the tall wooden gate. The great enclosure was half in shadow; the western sun brought out the pale red tone of the great blocks of travertine the latent colour that is the only living element in the immense ruin.
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