art, or at least, old photography
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rumtastiqueI'm supposed to be studying for a final exam. I kind of don't feel like it, so I'm posting some other stuff I've been working with...
This week's art is two nineteenth century photographs of architects. First up is Richard Morris Hunt, who was the mackdaddy of American architecture before 1880 or so. He was the first american trained at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris, and he headed up the 1893 COlumbian Exposition designs, as well as redoing the Met. What with the rise of the Richardsonian Romanesque, and then Modernism, Hunt became passe and antiquated and generally scoffed at. ANyway, here's an awesome portrait of him dressed as Cimabue:
Hunt is often contrasted with H.H. Richardson, my current topic of research, but they were actually pretty similar in some ways. Richardson designed, among other things, the Allegheny County COurthouse and Trinity Church in Boston, and is often regarded as the first Great AMerican Architect due to his establishing a signature style. Here he is from an 1883 set of photographs were he is dressed as a monk. Apparently, when it was cold, he would sit around his office in monks robes and summon his office boy with an asian temple gong.
Just for good measure, and to make all the book nerds out there drool, here's a photograph from 1886 of Richardson's library:
This week's art is two nineteenth century photographs of architects. First up is Richard Morris Hunt, who was the mackdaddy of American architecture before 1880 or so. He was the first american trained at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris, and he headed up the 1893 COlumbian Exposition designs, as well as redoing the Met. What with the rise of the Richardsonian Romanesque, and then Modernism, Hunt became passe and antiquated and generally scoffed at. ANyway, here's an awesome portrait of him dressed as Cimabue:
Hunt is often contrasted with H.H. Richardson, my current topic of research, but they were actually pretty similar in some ways. Richardson designed, among other things, the Allegheny County COurthouse and Trinity Church in Boston, and is often regarded as the first Great AMerican Architect due to his establishing a signature style. Here he is from an 1883 set of photographs were he is dressed as a monk. Apparently, when it was cold, he would sit around his office in monks robes and summon his office boy with an asian temple gong.
Just for good measure, and to make all the book nerds out there drool, here's a photograph from 1886 of Richardson's library:
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Date: 2008-04-22 04:18 pm (UTC)(and heee, I love that first portrait. But the Richardson thing is just ... man really was a nutcase, wasn't he...)
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Date: 2008-06-04 01:43 am (UTC)That being said, the original building of the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy, a Richardson building -- if I ever become a trillionaire, that's bing to be my library wing!