Word: mural
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mount of Olives, not far from where Jesus the Christ ascended to Heaven, there now stands Government House, the residence of the British High Commissioner, an imposing structure built originally asr the Empress Augusta Victoria Hospice (hotel). The British, easygoing, have left unmolested a pair of astonishing mural paintings in the Chapel. One depicts God the Father. The other, directly opposite and much more imposing in composition, was painted to display in trailing Biblical robes of glory The All Highest, Wilhelm...
Last week a huge stone, hurling down from a partly wrecked tower, burst through the Chapel roof, obliterated the blasphemous mural of Wilhelm, and finally became motionless below the unscathed portrait of Jehovah...
...main floor is Guest Hall, rising to a height of two stories and roofed with a beamed ceiling which is itself a sixteenth century work from Dijon. This room, which is finished in rough plaster with a stone floor, will be used principally for the exhibition of tapestries and mural decorations...
...Cunard Building in Manhattan, with its illuminated ceiling and walls, was cited as an example of what architects and mural painters can accomplish together...
...architect and someone else, and impressing upon architects that theirs is an Art as well as a technic, were the convention keystones. To stress the Art of building, the Institute has enrolled representatives of arts with which the architect must ally his work to obtain unity of effect?sculpture, mural painting, landscape-architecture, etc. (TIME, April...