1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition

 

Preview

image preview

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

Share

 
COinS