Italian Room in the Cathedral of Learning

1935/1980

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Italian Room in the Cathedral of Learning
  • Title
  • Italian Room in the Cathedral of Learning
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I02
  • Description
  • The Italian Classroom inside the Cathedral of Learning Building is located on the University of Pittsburgh campus in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. This room, along with nineteen other Nationality Rooms all with different architectural styles, was conceived in the 1920s by sociologist Ruth Crawford Mitchell as a means of linking the university with the immigrant culture of the steel working families. The blackboard (pictured here opened) when closed looks like an armadio. The student seats are like monastery benches, the professor’s table and chair are originals, and the lectern is a copy of a Cathedral lectern designed by Michelangelo. The name and founding date of an Italian University is carved on the back of each broad and seat in the monastery benches. Commendatore Lorenzo Romanelli, owner of the well-known galleria d’arte, Palazzo Strozzi, in Florence, set the style for the furnishings.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • University of Pittsburgh.Cathedral of Learning.Italian Room.
    Classrooms--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Universities and colleges--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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