Rania Bafna
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Aligning the southern edge of Copley Square is McKim, Mead & White’s Boston Public Library. At its opening in 1895 the Renaissance Revival building was proclaimed a “palace to the people.” The building is ornamented by many lavish embellishments including monumental inscriptions, sculpture, murals, and light fixtures. Nestled into the building’s core is an open-air courtyard closely based on that of the sixteenth-century Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome. Designed in the manner of a Renaissance cloister, the courtyard is surrounded by an arcaded gallery. In the middle is a small plaza with a square fountain basin. At the center of the basin is Frederick William Macmonnies’ "Dancing Bacchante and Infant Faun" atop a granite plinth, animated by a circle of water jets.
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