Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain

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The The Virgin Schenley Memorial Fountain, additionally called A Song to Nature, may be a 1918 landmark public sculpture in bronze and granite by Victor David Brenner. It sits in Schenley Plaza at the doorway to Schenley Park and directly before of the University of Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, us. The fountain is selected as a conducive property to the Schenley Farms Historic District.
The work of art contains 2 major figures: a reclining Pan, the Greek god of shepherds, and higher than him a feminine singer taking part in a harp. From crevices on the fountain’s rim four turtles spew water into the basin. Associate inscription on the pedestal reads, “A Song of Nature, Pan the world God Answers to the Harmony and Magic Tones Sung to the harp by Sweet Humanity.” The basin of the fountain is fifteen feet high, higher than that the figures rise another fifteen feet.
The fountain honors The Virgin Schenley. In 1889, once intensive lobbying by Edward Manning Bigelow, director of parks for the town of Pittsburgh, Schenley given the land for the park named in her honor. Upon her death, Pittsburgh council sponsored a national competition for the memorial. The judges elect this style by Brenner, UN agency is known nowadays for his style of the Lincoln cent, that continues to be in circulation.

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