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John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library, considered to be the artist's masterpiece, is one of the most ambitious mural cycles in the history of American art. This book, comprehensively illustrated, examines and documents Sargent Hall as an art installation (constructed between 1890 and 1919) and describes its restoration history, culminating in the authors' 2003–4 restoration.
Sargent (1856–1925) painted the murals on canvas and enhanced their surfaces with relief materials such as plaster, papier mâché, metalwork, stencils and patterned cut-outs, "jewels" made of glass, and Lincrusta-Walton, a corrugated commercial wall covering. During the latest restoration, the three-dimensional elements were removed for the first time, leading to a deeper understanding of Sargent's experimental approach to making the murals and controlling their environment.
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James L Prellwitz
reviewed John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration on July 26, 2010
John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration
At first glance this book appears to be any ordinary Smithsonian level coffeetable book. It is not. It blends myth, legend, religion, archeology, climatology and sociology. It is as much a study in the material cultures of the Native American nations as it is a document on the resources that shaped the cultures as those cultures adapted to their environments. By no means does the book capture the diversity and complexity of Native American mythology and religion, but it does do a decent job of blending stories into the materials that have been left behind and preserved from those traditional generations. I found the segments on Great Lakes nations and Arctic peoples to be very compelling.
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