Baltimore MD – Συγγράμματα

The Harvest

Two contemporary monuments united by central sheaf of wheat and little else.

A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.

A fine early Art Deco monument offers a chance to consider its evolution from the Neoclassical style.

The Kates monument in Laurel Hill gets us to the name of the quarry that contracted several works discussed here.

Some Latin consoled the parents of the luckless John Thomas.

An unsung monument in Arlington gets a close look.

A stanza by the romantic poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld graces the monument of the extended Baker-Jones family.

An astonishing constellation of Christian and classical ideas in a statue of Phidippides.

An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.

I never expected to find a portrait bust displayed on the exterior of a monument! And it hasn’t been stolen!