This faade, that most readily seen from the town, presents a decorous and impassive public face with one of the most architecturally severe elevations of the palace ("see illustration right").
In addition to the impassive, emotion-dry classicism, and the symmetric "geometric logic of purity," this figure is notable for the imaginative cut-away of the building revealing a fanciful mountain backdrop.
Gold sat impassive in his seat while he received a standing ovation, and it was clear that a wide majority of the members of both conventions supported him.