A practical guide to the Library of Congress paintings : with 92 key pictures and other illustrations and the library quotations (1903)
Washington : Foster & Reynolds · leaf 31
he Wreath of Victory, the Triumph. Printers’ Marks, the distinctive emblematic devices, answering to trade- marks, used by printers and publishers on the title-pages of their books, are employed as motives in all the entrance pavilion corridors of this floor. There are fifty-six in all, the… … Taste. Hearing. Smell. Touch. Sight. THE SENSES. of sciences and industries — Geometry, Meteorology, Forestry, Navigation, Mechanics, Transportation. Sibyls. — The sculptures in the vault, above the west window, by R. H. Perry, represent the Sibyls, or ancient prophetesses, who interpreted omens,…
Library of Congress · Mural painting and decoration, American · Symbolism in art
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