Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us: January 2013

Friday, January 4, 2013

Boston Bronze and Stone goes to Boston Channel 9

Hi!
As Arts/Cultural editor for Neighborhood Network News (www.nnnonline.org), I'd like to invite you to come to our Kenmore Square Studios on Thursday January 10 at 2 pm to pretape a 6-minute interview about your book and upcoming promotional appearance in Boston. The segment will aired later in the month on Boston Cable Channel 9 at at 5:30, 9:30 and 11:00 pm.

Chris Hardy
Arts/Cultural Editor

"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us " has just been invited for another interview about my book.

I am looking forward to this new adventure. It never ceases to amaze me how excited and curious Bostonians are about my new book.

This bronze sculpture ascends upward to celebrate the construction of the then-tallest building in Boston. In 1967, the Prudential Building pioneered the future of the Boston architectural landscape. Quest Eternal proudly heralds the future for the forward-looking metropolitan business community. Lead by this tall skyscraper, our current financial district became a reality.

Found on Boylston Street in Boston, at the foot

of the Prudential building this large single cast sculpture called ‘Quest Eternal’ bears the following inscription: “Cast in Italy, this five-ton bronze figure is a traditional classic form depicting man reaching for the heavens.”

Taken from the Stone

About The Author

Joseph R. Gallo Jr. is not a historian nor a sculptor. He is a student and great appreciator of both academic fields. Trained as an educator and being an entrepreneur, he felt a need to reach out to the thousands of visitors who come to our historical city teaching them through this guidebook the purpose and reason why such beautiful works of art embellish our fair City of Boston. Compiling updated photos and historical text for the resurrection of a much needed simple-to-use guidebook Boston Bronze and Stone Speaks To Us was time consuming, but fulfilling. The purpose and meaning of these monuments is made more lucid with the structuring of this new book.

About the Book

Boston Bronze & Stone Speak To Us is a unique and beautiful book that combines art, history, and walking guides for the public sculpture found in eighteen Boston locales. Written by Joseph R. Gallo, Jr., who states that he is not an historian but a lover of the City of Boston, the book combines his original photographs and observations with well-referenced sources and maps for a complete experience of enjoying Boston sculpture. With hundreds of full-color photographs in all, each chapter offers a map of that area with stars and page numbers marking each work discussed. The chapters include the Boston Common, the State House inside and out, Beacon Hill and Louisburg Square, the Boston Public Gardens, the Esplanade and Hatch Shell, the Fenway, Chinatown and the Theater District, Copley Square, Park Square, the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, School Street and the Old City hall, King's Chapel, Downtown and the Financial District, Government Center, Quincy Marketplace and Faneuil Hall, the North End, and the Waterfront. The book also includes and Index of Monuments and an Index of the Sculptors. Boston is home to some of the most extraordinary public art in North America. Sculptors of public art include Daniel Chester French, Katherine Lane Weems, August Saint-Gaudens and George Aarons. This lovingly produced book introduces readers to the artists, the subjects of their work, and the accessibility of exceptional art all within the city of Boston.