
Artwork Details
- Title
- The Kathredal — Mother Symbolically Represented
- Artist
- Date
- 1935
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 33 3⁄4 × 22 in. (85.7 × 55.9 cm)
- Copyright
- © The Ames Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan, Bonnie and Sy Grossman, Berkeley, CA, and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- ink on paper
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Keywords
- Architecture Exterior — religious — church
- Object Number
- 2015.4
Artwork Description
Achilles G. Rizzoli lived his entire life in San Francisco, working as a draftsman in an architectural office for more than forty years. He was devoted to his own art, particularly an extensive series of architectural renderings of a utopian city in which he portrayed people, most significantly his mother, as buildings. The Kathredal: Mother Symbolically Represented is an architectural personification of his mother’s essential attributes: strength, beauty, and spiritual perfection. The YTTE (Yield to Total Elation) plans are also symbolic representations of people but adopt a floor plan format. The YTTE drawings often explore ideas of his father, who disappeared when Rizzoli was nineteen.