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Palaces and Courts of the Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
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the means of drawing your colored diaper work toward that blue
background, the sky, and is superb in its connecting force.

The little towers above, with the turquoise-blue columns, show a most
daring use of color when you consider the colors below, but how
admirably that turquoise blue works onto the domes and the blue columns
of The Tower of Jewels.

The longer you look at the Italian Towers the more you come to feel
their subtle connection with the beauties around.

Only a genius could manipulate his colors as Jules Guerin has done in
this splendid work before you.

The repeated cartouche in turquoise blue has a most lovely effect upon
the whole.

Poised on the top of the Italian Towers is The Fairy (by Carl Gruppe).
She looks afar and sees the vision of this wondrous Exposition.



The Palace of Fine Arts



Architect - Bernard R. Maybeck of San Francisco.

Architecture - Old Roman in the main, with Italian Renaissance features.
In the background is the fire-proof art gallery of 113 rooms.
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