The Goddess Diana (“The Huntress), symbol of the ICAA, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (All photos by David Brussat)
Your far-flung correspondent was in Philadelphia (five-hour train ride) to attend, speak at and report on the Henry Hope Reed legacy symposium sponsored by the city’s chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. It was a delightful and provocative event, on which I will have more to say, and held in part to prepare a more ambitious celebration of his centennial next year. I took almost five hundred photos of the City of Brotherly Love, on a day that has rarely been surpassed for shooting pictures. I just walked around taking photos, without doing much to identify the buildings I was unfamiliar with. Some of them will be obvious even to non-Philadelphians. Most of them represent the Philadelphia with which Henry was surely in love. All will be, if I have done my job well in their selection, pleasing to the eye (this is not a coincidence!). Here are a few:
GREAT PHOTOS! And they certainly prove Henry Hope Reed’s point about the necessity of ornament and sculpture to make a building complete.
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Amazing photos!
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I was fortunate to live in Center City for a year and a half when I began my career, I never tired of long walks to see the many wonderful buildings that city. It is a Classicist’s paradise.
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