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ancientcharm · 2 years
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This style IV fresco depicts a Pompeian bourgeois couple, certainly husband and wife, and was placed on the back wall of the room, so that it would be visible to anyone passing through the atrium. This is the baker Terentius Neo, as the painted inscription inside the house reveals, and not, as has long been wrongly believed, Paquius Proculus, whose name appears instead on an electoral inscription painted on an outside wall. The woman wears a red mantle, a pearl necklace with a gold pendant; she has the typical hairstyle of the Neronian period, with her hair divided by a central parting and collected at the nape of her neck, except for the tight curls that fall on the obverse,and flaunts culture holding a diptych of waxed tablets and a punch;the baker is dressed in the toga that indicates the dignity of magistratus and keeps the sign in sight.
Naples National Archaeological Museum. (Inv. 9058)
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archinform · 8 months
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The Auditorium Annex / Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago - Part 1
by Roger Jones - August 2023
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The original Auditorium Hotel, right, and the Auditorium Annex north and south wings, left. Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey
The Congress Plaza Hotel, 520 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago and facing Grant Park, is a once-elegant landmark building that in the past was known as the "Home of Presidents." Designed as the Auditorium Annex, an extension of the Auditorium Hotel just across Congress Street (1885-1889, Adler and Sullivan, architects), the hotel was meant to house the immense crowds anticipated for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was also the largest of the many hotels designed by architect Clinton J. Warren. Added to and remodeled extensively over the years, its interiors have featured historical styles, neo-Baroque splendor, Pompeian motifs, and 1930s Moderne.
...Its eleven story edifice was originally designed by architect Clinton J. Warren as an annex to the Auditorium Theater across the street. The two buildings were linked by a marble-lined underground passage called Peacock Alley. After opening for business in 1893, for the World's Columbian Exposition, the hotel underwent two major expansions and renovations, first in 1902 and then again in 1907 which brought the total complex up to 1 million square feet (93,000 m2). The design and construction of these two additions were overseen by the firm of Holabird & Roche. The hotel now features 871 guest rooms and suites. Through the 1930s the hotel was run by hotel industry pioneer Ralph Hitz's National Hotel Management Company. At this same time, part of the hotel was used as the location for a Benny Goodman NBC Radio Show. Following the outbreak of World War II, the Government purchased the Congress Hotel and used it as a training school for U.S. Army Air Forces. [Wikipedia]
The Auditorium Annex was built by famous hotel developer R.H. Southgate. The first section, or north tower, was designed by Clinton Warren, with Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler serving as consultants. “Peacock Alley,” a celebrated feature of the new hotel, was an underground marble passageway that connected the new annex with the Auditorium Hotel.
The south tower, constructed between 1902 and 1907, was designed by renowned architectural firm Holabird and Roche. The South Tower construction included a magnificent banquet hall, now known as the Gold Room, which would become the first hotel ballroom in America to use air-conditioning. Another ballroom, called the Florentine Room, was added to the North Tower in 1909. These two famous public rooms combined with the Elizabethan Room and the Pompeian Room to host Chicago’s elite social events of the day. Source: https://www.congressplazahotel.com/history
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View of the original Auditorium Annex (North Tower), showing how the 1893 building echoed the features of the 1889 Adler & Sullivan building
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The original hotel entrance, c. 1909-1910
In 1911, the hotel's owners renamed it the Congress Hotel, after its location on Congress Street, across from the monumental Congress Plaza section of Grant Park.
Presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Franklin Roosevelt all stayed or met with supporters at the renowned hostelry.
Following the outbreak of World War II, the Government purchased the Congress Hotel and used it as a training school for U.S. Army Air Forces. The hotel reopened for civilian use in time for the summer political conventions of 1944. At this time, John J. Mack was president of the Michigan-Congress Hotel Corporation.
In 1950, the Pick Hotel Corporation bought the hotel and oversaw a major renovation of the entire hotel, which included new suites and restaurants. Another modernization project began in the 1960s, which added a ballroom and escalators.
The hotel today struggles to maintain its once-elegant appearance. Only a handful of its grand historic spaces can still be viewed: the Lobby, the Gold Room, and the Florentine Room. Sadly, many of its opulent interiors disappeared over the years, to remodeling or destruction.
Unfortunately, the hotel's chief claim to fame today is as one of the most haunted sites in Chicago. Myriad YouTubers post videos of their supernatural explorations here.
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Congress Hotel Lobby, 1890s view
Images from Inland Architect and News Record, January 1903
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Images from the Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archive, Art Institute of Chicago
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Exterior view c. 1907
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Dutch Room dining room
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Japanese Room interior
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Japanese Room detail
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Japanese Room with seated man
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Florentine Room interior
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Ceiling decoration by Edward J. Holslag, Florentine Room
The Hotel in the News
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Glass Hat, Pompeian Room, Tavern newspaper article
Views of historic interiors
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The Florentine Room, from the hotel's website
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Above three views: the Gold Room, my photos
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Congress Plaza Hotel, Gold Ballroom by Onasill on Flickr
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The Pompeian Room
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The Pompeian Room
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Pompeian Room murals by Louis Grell
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Jupiter mural, Pompeian Room
[See Part 2 for more information on Louis Grell]
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Bar and lounge for Joseph Urban Room
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My personal favorite interior was the Joseph Urban Room, which replaced the Elizabethan Room. The curved Moderne elements and jazzy neon lighting reflect the many skills of Joseph Urban, the noted designer and architect of such buildings as the Ziegfeld Theatre and Mar-a-Lago.
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Joseph Urban Room
Next: more illustrations of the hotel
Links:
Congress Plaza Hotel's History, official site
HABS ILL-1012 Historic Structure Report on Congress Hotel [PDF]
Hotel Annexed on chicago.designslinger
Louis Grell Video on YouTube
Public Domain Media, Auditorium Annex
Tales from a Scenic Artist and Scholar. Part 1041 – The Gold Room at the Congress Hotel, 1920
The Inland Architect, January 1903, Interior New Auditorium Annex [PDF]
The King of Haunted Chicago
The Unbelievable Story of the Chicago Congress Plaza Hotel, and its Haunted History
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fluentisonus · 1 year
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after seeing ten million white shiny sanitized paintings of the ancient world it's always such a breath of fresh air seeing neo pompeian types using lots of color & archaeological inspiration
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A fresco of a Roman couple with stylus, wax tablets, and papyrus roll from about 75AD, found in the House of Terentius Neo in the ruins of Pompeii.
"This couple, who did not come from the very highest ranks of the Pompeian aristocracy, probably chose to be depicted in this way as a mark of their status—they belonged to the ranks of those who were literate, and they wished to display the fact. In this sense, the portrait is evidence that literacy was far from universal in Roman Pompeii. But it is none the less an impressive fact, typical of the Roman world and difficult to parallel before modern times, that a provincial couple should have chosen to be painted in a way that very specifically celebrated a close relationship with the written word, on the part of both the man and his wife" (Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization [2005] 162-63, plate 7.10)
This fresco can be found preserved in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
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mscoyditch · 11 months
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"Portrait of Terentius Neo and Wife". Also known as 'Paquius Proculo'.
Roman art created in AD 0020 in Pompeii".
"Fresco said to be of Paquio Proculo and his wife. The fresco, of the fourth style, represents a middle-class Pompeian couple, certainly husband and wife, and was placed on the far wall, so as to be visible to all who pass through the atrium. It is the baker Terentius Neo, as revealed by the inscription carved inside the house, and not, as has been erroneously stated for a long time, Paquius Proculus, whose name appears in a electoral inscription painted on an exterior wall. Both people are depicted as refined, rich, cultured and fashionable: the woman is dressed in a red coat, a pearl necklace with gold pendant and pearls in her ears, she has the typical hairstyle of the time of Nero, with hair parted in the middle and tied back, with close curls that fall over the forehead, and evokes culture, holding a diptych of wax tablets and a stylus, in the same attitude of the painting "Sappho"; the baker is in a toga indicating his dignity as a magistrate, and puts the patulus in full view. Despite everything, however, the facial features, made by the author with the desired fidelity, betray the origin of two provincial upstarts, probably Samnites, who, once conquered economic well-being, aspired to hide their humble beginnings, now fully part of good society".
Naples National Archeological Museum.
Photo taken 2015-07-29 by Jebulon.
Wikimedia Picture of the Day 2023-05-13.
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oncanvas · 2 years
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Pyrallis, John William Godward, 1918
Oil on canvas 50 x 40 cm (19 ½ x 15 ½ in.)
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madamelesfressange · 5 years
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                                      A Passage from Mansfield Park
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema: The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888
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lionofchaeronea · 6 years
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The Quiet Pet, John William Godward, 1906
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mote-historie · 6 years
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John William Waterhouse, The Soul of the Rose, 1908.
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books0977 · 5 years
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The antiquarian. Ettore Forti (Italian, active late 19th-early 20th century). Oil on canvas.
Forti was an Italian painter, who was prolific in depicting realistic Neo-Pompeian scenes of Ancient Roman life and events. Here, the potential customers, dressed in classical garments, review the works of sculpture in the antiquarian’s shop.
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stirlingmoss · 2 years
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The Huntsmen’s Lunch (1922)
Raffaello Sorbi was a 19th-20th century Florentine painter, specializing in narrative painting.
As a young man, he studied design in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence; then painting under professor Antonio Ciseri. By 18 years, he had completed his first major work: Corso Donati mortally wounded is transported by Monks of San Salvi to their Abbey (see gallery). The painting won an award at the Florentine Triennale contest of 1861. He completed commissions for patrons in America and England. In 1863, he won a contest in Rome with the essay piece Savonarola explains the Bible to some friends in the Convent of San Marco. He was unable to make use of the stipend attached to the prize. In Florence, he exhibited a work depicting Piccarda Donati kidnapped from the Convent of Santa Chiara, by her brother Corso. He completed a St Catherine of Siena before an angry Florentine mob after concluding peace with the Pope, by commission for signore marchese Carlo Torrigiani. His painting of Imelda de' Lambertazzi e Bonifazio Geremei (lovers from Donizetti's opera) was sold to Wilhelm Metzler of Frankfort, Germany. In 1869, the sculptor Giovanni Duprè visited his studio, and commissioned a Phidias sculpts the Minerva Statue.
After this work, Sorbi produced mainly small canvases, mostly sold through the Goupil Gallery of Paris. Many are of antique Roman (Neo-Pompeian) or from the historical Tuscan past: Regatta in the Arno: il Girotondo; Il Decamerone; The Florentine Concert : Il Triclinio; The Vestal Virgins exit the Amphitheater after the spectacle: Il venditore di terre cotte; A family scene under a peristyle; Cornelia mother of the Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus. Other paintings are genre scenes in 18th-century dress and finery. Among his works, Lo Corsa delle carrette nel Circo and il serraglio agli sposi, were bought by the Silley of London, and Le Maggiolate bought by Signor Egisto Vannucci of Florence. Many of his works were acquired by English collectors. Among his works are a series of games, including Il Giuoco delle Bocce, delle Carte, del Pallone, della Ruzzola, and della Mora. He painted a Convalesence of Dante. In 1870, at the Mostra of Fine Arts di Parma, he displayed La strada. Sorbi became academician at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Florence and resident professor and honorary associate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Urbino.
Sorbi died in Florence on December 19, 1931.
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ultimate-passport · 6 years
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Galerie Vivienne - Paris, France
Galerie Vivienne is a 176 metre long covered passage, in Paris, France. It has been a registered historical monument since 1974. The gallery features many fashion, and home furnishing brands, including a store by Jean Paul Gaultier, and has been the location of Haute Couture fashion shows. Beautiful mosaics, paintings, and statues adorn every corner of the gallery, providing great examples of the neo-classical Pompeian style. 
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Pompeii Ruins - Pompeian Painting
The so-called portrait of Paquius Proculo is a fresco currently preserved at the Naples National Archaeological Museum that was found in Pompeii.
The fresco depicts a pair of middle-class Pompeians, almost certainly husband and wife. They are commonly referred to as "Paquius Proculus and his wife", due to an inscription found on the outside of the house, although a graffito inside the house later revealed the man to be Terentius Neo.[1] The external inscription turned out to be an election advertisement for Paquius Proculus, who had been elected duovir some time prior to the eruption.[2]
The man in the fresco wears a toga, the mark of a Roman citizen, and holds a rotulus, suggesting he is involved in local public and/or cultural events. The woman holds a stylus and wax tablet, emphasizing that she is educated and literate, and is managing the bakery.[3] It is suspected, based on the physical features of the couple, that they are Samnites, which may explain the desire to show off the status they have reached in Roman society.
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3707401 · 4 years
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The Portrait of Terentius Neo
The Portrait of Terentius Neo is a famous fresco of middle-class Pompeians that was found in Pompeii in the House of Terentius Neo. Found in AD79 buried beneath the ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The man is holding a rotolus. The woman is holding a stylus and wax tablet. The clothing and items present are to demonstrate status and education. Currently preserved at the Naples National Archaeological Museum, it is considered one of the finest pieces of art from the area of Vesuvius.
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What have we covered so far?
Egyptian script 800 to 1200
Hieroglyphic script
Bamboo paintings
Buddhist writing
Sanskrit tattoo
Italian script
Interesting points from this lecture
First moveable type in China
First wood-block printing in Western Europe
In 1806, blackletter became considered a typeface that represetns the german values—no nonsense
Disneyland appropriated blackletter in their logo because Grimm’s fairytales used it in their novels
Many companies were founded when blackletter was popular. Their logos hold on to historical reference
Communication is not only about transmitting information from A to B but also to stop information being transmitted to C or D. Example: death metal logos function to allow fans of the band to recognise it but also to inhibit others from understanding
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oncanvas · 3 years
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The Oracle, Camillo Miola, 1880
Oil on canvas 108 x 142.9 cm (42 ½ x 56 ¼ in.) J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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