1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
Preview
![image preview](https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_1939riarchitectureexhibition/1222/preview.jpg)
Creation Date
1889
Photographer
Joseph McCarthy
Location
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
cathedrals
Style/Period
Gothic Revival; Romanesque Revival
Image Type
photographic prints; enlargements (copies)
Image Measurements
width: 30 inches, height: 40 inches
Inscription
[typed label, bottom right:] CATHEDRAL OF SS. PETER AND PAUL, 1889 / Providence / Architect: Patrick C. Kiely [sic] / The full richness of high Victorian form and color is nowhere / better illustrated than in Kiely's [sic] cathedral interiors, late / though they are. / Photo by McCarthy
Description
interior; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Keywords
architecture (discipline); cathedrals; interior architecture (object genre); ribbed vaults; ambulatories; apses