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Title |
Carmel Mission (San Carlos Borromeo) by Marian Goodman, 1985. |
Object Name |
Painting |
Description |
Carmel Mission (San Carlos Borromeo) by Marian Goodman, 1985. Unframed, the painting depicts a 18th century cream-colored Roman Catholic mission chapel, with two bell towers and a dome with the Catholic cross on top. The chapel is surrounded by green trees, grass, bushes, some pink and orange flowers and in front of it there is a water fountain. |
Date |
n.d. |
Creator |
Goodman, Marian |
Role |
Artist |
Catalog Number |
1989.382.005 |
Dimensions |
H-20.25 W-26.25 inches |
Collection |
3D - Art |
Inscription Text |
"MARIAN GOODMAN" (handwritten on both corners on lower part of the painting) "CARMEL / MISSION / (SAN CARLOS BORROMEO)" (handwritten on the back of painting) |
Notes |
"The architect of Carmel Mission’s stone church was Manuel Ruiz of San Blas, Mexico. His brother Santiago, a master stonemason also received a license to work in the Province of California for a period of three years. It was believed that Manuel Ruiz’s original conception for the ceiling of the church was to resemble the six-part gothic ribbed vaulting that he executed in the baptistery of the church. To construct a ceiling of this design would have required much longer than their work visas would have permitted them to do safely. A design of catenary or parabolic arches was settled upon and even so, this design proved to be dangerous in earthquake country and the stone-vaulted ceiling was removed by 1817. The interior of the church as it appears today is far simpler than it looked originally when as many as seven large-scale side altarpieces lined the walls. Almost twenty statues adorned these altars and most were lost when a fire destroyed the first Sacred Heart Church in Salinas were then had been taken in the third quarter of the nineteenth century." [https://carmelmission.org/visit/museum/basilica/ 11/07/2019] |
Search Terms |
Mission Mission impact - Indians Mission Period Mission Style Missions - Architecture Missions - California Spanish - California Spanish Alta-California Spanish Colonial Spanish colonization Spanish Era Water Color |
Subjects |
Mission churches Missions Painting Paper Watercolors |
People |
Goodman, Marian |
Credit line |
Courtey of Marian Goodman |