There are some wonderful monuments that feature a symbolic empty chair.
Tag Archives: Baltimore MD
The Harvest
Two contemporary monuments united by central sheaf of wheat and little else.
Funerary landscaping
A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.
Trapped in this d–n circle!
A fine early Art Deco monument offers a chance to consider its evolution from the Neoclassical style.
The Kates monument in Laurel Hill
The Kates monument in Laurel Hill gets us to the name of the quarry that contracted several works discussed here.
John Christopher Thomas
Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.
The Liscum monument
An unsung monument in Arlington gets a close look.
The Baker obelisk
A stanza by the romantic poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld graces the monument of the extended Baker-Jones family.
Phidippides and the victory motive.
An astonishing constellation of Christian and classical ideas in a statue of Phidippides.
Flora!
An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.
An outdoor portrait bust
I never expected to find a portrait bust displayed on the exterior of a monument! And it hasn’t been stolen!
Ships!
Several attractive and interesting monuments on the theme of ships culminating in an astounding baroque performance by Hans Schuler in Arlington National Cemetery.
Olde school!
Old weathered tombstones are by turns heartbreaking and annoying. But you can see why people were enamored of them when you come across a crisp, fresh example.
The all-seeing eye!
A monstrous surprise awaited me at Glenwood Cemetery today.
An interesting and malleable monument type.
A grand beaux-arts monument evolves to something charming.
Ware ye the steamers!
While not jolly reading, it’s nevertheless interesting—and fairly rare—to hear on a monument of an unusual form of death. In Prospect Hill Cemetery (in D.C.), there is a tombstone of Marion Hays Colerider who was “shot and killed” at the age of 17 on 7 December 1900 (figure 1). Figure 1. Marion Hays Colerider monument. …
An amuse-bouche
While you breathlessly await two fairly substantial posts I have in train, here is a little something to keep you going. It’s the Charles Weber (1855-1947) mausoleum in Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore (figure 1). Figure 1. Charles Weber mausoleum, c. 1947. Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. Photo: author. Figure 2. Charles Weber mausoleum. Loudon …
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