File:All Angels Church Pulpit and Choir Rail (215437130).jpg

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American Art Element of architecture (Chaire)

Material : Oak, Limestone

Date : 1900

Artist : Karl T.F. Bitter

Model : Ange

Place : Metropolitan Museum of Art Engelhard Yard Court American Wing - Rez-de-Chauss�e

Area related : New York City (USA)

Acquisition : Rogers Fund (1878)

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Bitter was one of the foremost architectural sculptors working in the USA at the turn of the century. Trained originally at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vienne, Bitter came to America in 1889. He owed his early success to the architect, Richard Morris Hunt, who employed him on several projects inculding Hunt's Fifth Avenue fa�ade of the Metropolitan of Art for wich Bitter designed the four allegorical figures and sculptural ornaments in 1889.

The pulpit and choir rail from the All Angels' Church (now demolished), is one of the most beautiful eclesiastical works executed in America.

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Source All Angel's Church Pulpit and Choir Rail
Author Ricardo Martins from Gent, Belgium
Camera location40° 46′ 48.46″ N, 73° 57′ 47.79″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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