Chavanne's Muses welcoming the genius of enlightenment, Boston Library – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Chavanne's Muses welcoming the genius of enlightenment, Boston Library, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Chavanne's Muses welcoming the genius of enlightenment, Boston Library
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This view shows Pierre Puvis de Chavannes's mural *Muses Welcoming the Genius of Enlightenment*, one of the decorative paintings he produced for the Boston Public Library's Copley Square building. The library, designed by McKim, Mead & White, opened in 1895 and was among the first American public buildings to commission large-scale murals from leading European painters. The Detroit Publishing Company issued this view around 1901 as a cyanotype, a blue-toned process that was popular for architectural and interior records. Its interest lies less in the photographic technique than in what it preserves: a setting where the classical allegory was meant to frame reading and learning as civic virtues.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print mounted on thin board : cyanotype ; image 36 x 54.4 cm. |
| Genre | no. 8. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09998. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Notes | Listed in Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Photographic Co." Copyright deposit no. H1114. Also have photographic print of this image |
| Subjects | Murals. Interiors. Libraries.United States--Massachusetts--Boston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-195835 |
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