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Tmrr)VGH the AGE 3 Ij • E13 EJE] Bl£] Bja Blel Ejzl • Elel Era Ele] Era Elel EJZ•] • EJE3ET£]EJZ1ET£]EJZ]E1E]DEJEE^EJE)ET£]BJE]E1E1 TMRr)VGH THE AGE 3 ij • E13 EJE] Bl£] BJa BlEl EJZl • ElEl Era ElE] Era ElEl EJZ•] FEBRUARY. I924 What shall we make his monument— A shaft of marble, straight and tall, Wreathed by the city's smoky pall— To mark the streets where he came and went? To gleam in the city's myriad lights— To catch the flame of the morning sun- To tower above us when day is done— A dim shape seen in the murky light? M. R. s. EJB ElE] Era [513 Bra BIS D BTEl Eia Era E13 EJa Bia i B13 B[E M Era Bia Bra • Bi3 Era BiED Era EiE] Era [^] VOL.1 FEBRUARY. 1924 NO. 10 CONTENTS PAGE CLOISTERS OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL . FrontislDiece A TROJAN PUBLIC BUILDING MEDICAL HISTORY IN MARBLE THE ORIGIN OF TENNESSEE MARBLE 11 A LIST OF THE WORLD'S MARBLES 13 MANTELS FOR THE HOME 1Q ENGLISH GOTHIC CHURCHES 23 THE MINNESOTA CAPITOL SAFER WALKWAYS 35 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 4^ Published Monthly by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARBLE DEALERS GAY AND WATER STREETS. BALTIMORE. MD. Executive Offices: 242 ROCKEFELLER BUILDING. CLEVELAND. OHIO Application for Second-Class Vlailing Privilege has t>een filed at Baltimore. Md. Subscription Price $3.00 per year Single Copies 35 cents Copyright. 1924. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 01- VIARBLE DEALERS jitimore. Maryland. Corner of the Cloisters of Lincoln Cathedral, in England. This Gothic structure was begun in i iqi and finished about 1280 A.D. 1 A Monthly Magazine devoted to the uses of Marble - its universal adaptability, beauty, permanency and economy VOL. 1 FEBRUARY. 1924 NO. 10 A TROTAN PUBLIC BUILDING Troy, New York, Gas Company's Home Has a Pleasing Interior of Marble ACK in iqi6. there was completed in window. Each entrance is equipped with a B Troy, New York, a new building for revolving door that is encased in marble, the the Gas Company of that city. The first touch of the stone that is used so amply architect, Mr. L. N. Milliman, was told that within. The first story is of rustic-work, there were three things that the Company with heavy arches over the show windows. wished to attain. The structure was. first of The second and third floors are included in all, to be built for the convenience of the gas an Ionic order, with heavy monolithic col• consumer. This was to be a paramount con• umns having fluted shafts and carved cap• sideration. The comfort of the employees itals. The fourth floor is incorporated in a was considered as of almost equal import• frieze and the whole crowned by a cornice, ance. Finally, there was to be no sacrificing supported by a dental course and heavy of beauty of design, especially of the in• mouldings, with an overhanging parapet terior, for the purpose of utility. enriched with an interlacement band en• That the architect has succeeded in carry• closed by cartouche-crowned tops at the end ing out the suggestions of his clients is amply piers. proved by the fact that today the Troy Gas The building has a frontage of fifty-two Building is the pride of the city. No other feet and all floors are made either of marble building in Troy can compare with it in the or a niarble composition. The first floor con• manner in which such attractiveness and tains the main display room, cashier's room, adaptability have been combined with such collectors' room, and street and electrical striking effect. It is significant that in the superintendents' offices. The display room achievement of this result marble has played is wainscoted to a height of ten feet six a very important part. inches with marble set off by monolithic The exterior architectural style is an marble columns and pilasters with orna• adaptation of the Italian Renaissance.There mental capitals. The marble used was Ameri• are two main entrances, with an entablature can Pavonazzo. from the underground quar• over each finished with a wreath-enclosed ries of West Rutland. The heavv moulded THROVGH THE AGES ceilings and the floors of a red variegated West Rutland marble with characteristic marble augment the impressiveness of these green markings. The red marble of the chambers. floors is Oriental, obtained from the Swan- The base courses of Verde Antique are in ton quarrying district. notable harmony with the lighter tints of All corridors, hall rooms and staircases are the walls. In these the arrangement of the vx-ainscoted in marble and the floors of the color is the reverse of the Pavonazzo—the upper stories are of terrazzo. The interior of background is of dark green and the \ eining the new building, taken as a whole, is some• is white. The corridor base is of this same thing more than the home of a large organ• stock and so are the insets of the floor. The ization. It is a tribute to American marble walls in the corridor are Brocadillo, another and the methods of American workmanship. Display room of the Troy Gas Co. The columns and walls are of American Pavonarzo. [4 THROVGH THE AGES MEDICAL HISTORY IN MARBLE ^ I "»HE earliest sculptures in the history of Statue of .Esculapius near them, brought I medicine are those found in the Egyp• good health, and as a consequence of this im• tian tombs, and they date as far back pression a whole store of statues of /Escula- as 4500 years ago. They depict surgical op• pius have been excavated all over the Greek erations of a rather painful nature and show region, not onK' in what we now know as quite clearly the sufferings of the patients. Greece, but all along the Asia Minor coast These stone engravings were discovered by and in the southern part of Italy which came Professor Max Muller while on a mission for to be known as Magna Grecia, and also even the Camegie Institute. in the center of Italy. Many cities appar• The remains of Greek sculpture which ently felt that their health would be ever so much better if they had a statue of this Greek god of medicine who was held in such reverence. And so they erected one. One of the handsomest of these statues of /Esculapius, an example of Greek sculpture Earliest surgical operation pictured in theNecropolisof Saqqarah at Memphis, have been found in recent centuries contain a great many examples of statues of JEscu- lapius. This Greek god of medicine, who was probably a great physician and surgeon whom the gratitude of his patients deified, must have been held in very high estima• The famous black marble statue of tion. After his death people could not bring .-Esculapius, Capitolinc. Rome. themselves to believe that a man who had shown, as it seemed to them, such power over f rom an early period and famous above most life and death in the case of others, could be of those that we know, is the statue in an• himself completely amenable to the illnesses tique black marble which is to be seen at the of life, or even to death itself, and so they Capitoline Museum in Rome. A picture of transferred him to a place among the im• it is here presented which shows quite well mortals. Manifestly a great many people the esteem in which the Greeks held this must have thought that the having of a great physician of their early history. There Illustrations and part of reading matter courtesy N'ew York Pharmacal .-Xssociation. [5) ^31: 7"H ROVGH'THE AG ES is something more than human in the dig• as an extremely nity of this wonderful old piece of statuary, thoughtful looking, so that it is easy to understand that it has high-browed kindly come to be one of the best known of the re• gentleman with a beard, mains of Greek sculpture that we possess. very much like that Naturally theGreeksappreciatedthe value which his colleagues in of health and thought seriously of the neces- country places, partic• ularly of a couple of generations ago. used to effect. Nearly every museum of any import• ance in Europe has an original Hippocrates Statue of Hippocrates. sculpture from theolder British Museum. time and the one here presented, an antique bust which may be seen in the British Museum, is one of the most characteristic of these representations. Many other physicians in Greece besides Hippocrates had their lives and personalities preserved in marble for us and one of these, Jason, is here presented making an examina• tion of a patient by means of pal pation. His fingers rest just below the edges of the ribs Hygcia and /Esculapius, the Goddess of Health on the left so that it was probably some and the God of Healing. Ottoman Museum. Constantinople. sity for preserving it. and so many examples have been found, in the excavations, of com• panion statues or sculptures of Hygeia and /Esculapius. the goddess of health and the god of healing. This goddess who rules over and maintains well-being and the divin• ity who presides over the restoration of good health, when for some reason it has been lost, are very worthy complements of each other. The Greeks honored the great father of medicine, Hippocrates, only less than ^^^s- culapius, the god of medicine, and so it is easy to understand why an immense number of busts and figures identified as Hippo• crates have been found in the course of mod• Tomb monument of Greek physician Ja.son. ern excavations. He is usually represented British Museum.
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