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College of Fine Arts Niches, (sculpture). Artist:  Giammartini, Archille, 1861-1929, sculptor. Rosenblatt, Paul, architect. Hornbostel, Henry, architect. Trenchard, Thomas, sculptor. Fourchet, Emmanuel, sculptor. Llano, Ruben Dario, sculptor. Salazar, Juan, sculptor. Barbetta, Julie, sculptor. Brenner, Jason, sculptor. Dailey, Daniel, sculptor. Conrad, Richard C., sculptor. Caskey, David, sculptor. Jacquet, Jean, sculptor. Fairplay, Nicholas, sculptor. Lindsey, Bruce M., architect. Bruce Lindsey Paul Rosenblatt Associates, architectural firm. Cathedral Stoneworks, sculptor. Title:  College of Fine Arts Niches, (sculpture). Dates:  1913, 1990-1993. Medium:  Limestone. Dimensions:  H. 30 ft. x W. 15 ft. Inscription:  (In Roman niche, above front building doors:) CREARE (In Renaissance niche, by Giammartini:) FECIT ANNO DOMINI MCMXIII unsigned Description:  Carvings in five niches on building facade, each representing a type of architecture: (left to right) Medieval, Greek, Roman, Renaissance, and World/Oriental cultures (which represents the non-Western styles, Chinese, Egyptian, Hindu (India), Islamic, Khman (Cambodia), and Mayor. Each niche contains various scenes and figures from mythology, religion, and history. The Medieval niche includes images of Eve, the Queen of Sheba, King Solomon (sculpted by Nicholas Fairplay), Mary Magdalene, John the Evangelist, Christ and his Apostles, and the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. It also includes images of a bagpiper (a stone salute to the world's first college to offer that major), a figure depicting music, a cat and fiddle. The Greek niche has free-standing Corinthian, Doric and Ionic columns and features a frieze of nude male atheletes, cavorting centaurs, and draped females in the Temple of Athena Nike. The Roman niche includes a bust of Bacchus, an image of Mecury (fashioned after portraits of the late Verner S. Purnell, funder), and an image of Henry Hornbostel, campus architect. It also features a copy of an 11th century Hindu statue of an Indian woman at Calcutta's Indian Museum. The Oriental niche includes an Islamic dome, a Buddha figure, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Maya columns. Subject:  Allegory -- Arts & Sciences Religion History Mythology -- Classical -- Bacchus Mythology -- Classical -- Centaur Mythology -- Classical -- Mercury Performing Arts -- Music -- Violin Performing Arts -- Music -- Bagpipe Ethnic -- Asian Indian Ethnic -- Asian Ethnic -- Roman Ethnic -- Greek Architecture -- Religious -- Temple Architecture -- Monument -- Statue Occupation -- Sport -- Athlete Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh Relief Architectural component Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Carnegie-Mellon University, Artistic Properties Collection, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Located Carnegie-Mellon University, College of Fine Arts Building, front facade, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Remarks:  Begun in 1912, at a cost of $50,000, the project ended abruptly after only two-thirds of the Roman and Renaissance niches had been carved in 1913 by Archille Giammartin. A subsequent donation by alumnus Verner S. Purnell continued the project in 1990 and it was completed in 1993. Bruce M. Lindsey and Paul Rosenblatt of Bruce Lindsey Paul Rosenblatt Associates served as project architects, and the carvings were designed based on an original sketch by campus architect Henry Hornbostel. The Renaissance niche was carved mostly by Archille Giammartini. The stonecarvers, led by master carver Nicohlas Fairplay of Cathedral Stoneworks of New York City, included Thomas Trenchard from England, Emmanuel Fourchet and Jean Jacquet from France; and Ruben Dario Llano and Juan Salazar from Columbia; and apprentices Julie Barbetta, Jason Brenner, David Caskey (from the Czech Republic), Daniel Dailey from England, and Richard C. Conrad. References:  Carnegie Mellon University, Artistic Properties Collection, 1997. Carnegie Mellon Magazine (Winter 1993): pg. 12-17. Illustration:  Carnegie Mellon Magazine (Winter 1993): pg. 12-17. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 67150016   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 67150016 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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