Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston, Lancashire, England UK _On the pediment is the inscription 'To Literature, Arts and Science' ..
The main feature of the front of the building is the pediment which houses the sculpture representing The School of Athens which was planned by Hibbert and sculptured by Edwin Roscoe Mullins and a number of griffins guarding the lamp of learning on the apex, which were modelled and carved by Roland Rhodes under the architect’s supervision. Beneath the pediment is the inscription ‘To Literature, Arts and Science’ reflecting the purpose of the building and the interests of its principal benefactor Edmund Robert Harris. Around the sides of the building Hibbert chose to inscribe ‘On Earth there is nothing great but man : in man there is nothing great but mind’, ‘Reverence in man, that which is supreme’ taken from the meditations of Marcus Aurelius and lastly the promise ‘The mental riches you may here acquire abide with you always’. A further inscription exists around the lantern in ancient Greek taken from the funeral of Pericles, a ruler of Athens who is the central figure depicted in the pediment sculpture on the front of the building.
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Location: Lancashire, UK
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