The panel represents various branches of manufacture, including
metal work, blacksmithing, pottery-making, spinning, and architectural
sculpture.
Palace of Liberal Arts
The facade here exactly duplicates that just described, even to the
niche figures and panel in the portal.
Palace of Education
The Palace of Education has three Renaissance portals on the south
facade. These are more Spanish in feeling than those of the two palaces
just passed. The tympanum panel of the central doorway may be taken to
represent kindergarten teaching, instruction of boys and girls, and
self-education in young manhood. It is by Gustave Gerlach. The two
panels in the walls over the minor doorways treat very obviously of
educational subjects. They are flat in more senses than one, lacking the
life of the central tympanum group. They are by students of two American
art schools.
The west facade of the Palace of Education is dominated by an immense
half-dome, impressive in size and attractively decorated. The style of
architecture here is mainly Roman, to harmonize with the Fine Arts
Palace which it faces across the lagoon. There are two splendid
architectural fountains, under the half-dome here and under, that of the
Palace of Food Products.
Sculpture. Flanking the great arch are columns carrying the nude figure
of a man, with hands crossed, gazing fixedly in thought.
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