Cass Gilbert Abroad: The Young Architect's European TourAfton Historical Society Press, 2002 - 127 頁 "Cass Gilbert's architectural career dawned in his twentieth year, not with an American building but with a sheaf of European sketches. In 1880 he crossed the Atlantic with high hopes but only the vaguest prospect of work, either abroad or on his return. Armed with pencil, pen, and watercolor brushes, he visually raided the cities and countrysides of England, Italy, and France for their architectural wonders, their scenery, and anything else that served his fascination with the monumental and the picturesque." "Gilbert returned home bitterly disappointed at not finding a position in England; but the spoils he brought back with him - a matchless portfolio of studies and sketches - earned him entree into one of the foremost architectural offices in the country and served as the foundation for a long and fruitful career. It is only fitting that these earliest glimmerings of his talent, strong enough even then to win acclaim among his peers in New York and Paris, should at last be brought into the light." "Cass Gilbert Abroad combines the fledgling architect's pen-and-ink and pencil drawings and glorious watercolor sketches from his European tour with letters he wrote home to his mother and to his closest friend and architectural confidant, Minnesota's most prolific architect Clarence Johnston."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... and flying buttresses , carved and moulded to the last extreme . I never saw anything to compare with it in lavish , almost barbaric luxuriousness . . FOSCARI PALACE VENICE , 1860 . Foscari Palace , Venice 55 A Whirlwind through Italy.
... and flying buttresses , carved and moulded to the last extreme . I never saw anything to compare with it in lavish , almost barbaric luxuriousness . . FOSCARI PALACE VENICE , 1860 . Foscari Palace , Venice 55 A Whirlwind through Italy.
第 62 頁
... Palace means the Governmental Office Building , you will see the enormity of the joke .... [ letter recommenced ca. Mar. 8 in Siena ] From the Uffizzi there is a passage way over a half a mile long to the Pitti Palace .... The sides of ...
... Palace means the Governmental Office Building , you will see the enormity of the joke .... [ letter recommenced ca. Mar. 8 in Siena ] From the Uffizzi there is a passage way over a half a mile long to the Pitti Palace .... The sides of ...
第 125 頁
... Palace Sketchbook 2 , Library of Congress Bibliographical Note. Plaster column and capital in Crystal Palace , Lydenham The fountains at Versailles ; photograph purchased by Gilbert in. 125 JOURNEY'S END.
... Palace Sketchbook 2 , Library of Congress Bibliographical Note. Plaster column and capital in Crystal Palace , Lydenham The fountains at Versailles ; photograph purchased by Gilbert in. 125 JOURNEY'S END.
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