Pediment for the Brooklyn Museum
American Art
On View: Eastern Parkway Façade
MEDIUM
Indiana limestone
DATES
1914
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
10.232
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
To the viewer's left, three figures represent Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. On the viewer's right stand Geology, Astronomy, and Biology, the three basic sciences of the earth, sky, and nature. A sphinx on the extreme right symbolizes Knowledge. A peacock at the left is, according to D.C. French, an "emblem of beauty in the appearance of things," as associated with art.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Eastern Parkway Façade
CAPTION
Daniel Chester French (American, 1850–1931). Pediment for the Brooklyn Museum, 1914. Indiana limestone Brooklyn Museum, 10.232. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, S06_BEEi118_cropped_10.232.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, Brooklyn Museum: exterior. View of the Central section from the entrance pathway, 1987. Pediment., S06_BEEi118_cropped_10.232.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 1987
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