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The Apotheosis of Washington is the fresco painted by Greek - Italian artist Constantino Brumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The fresco is suspended 180 feet (55 m) above the rotunda floor and covers an area of 4,664 square feet (433.3 m 2).
Coordinates: 38°53′24″N 77°0′32.4″W. The dome of the United States Capitol building at night in 2006. The United States Capitol features a dome situated above its rotunda. The dome is 288 feet (88 m) in height and 96 feet (29 m) in diameter. [1] Designed by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol, it was constructed ...
Rotunda viewed from behind the statue of George Washington (2005). The United States Capitol building features a central rotunda below the Capitol dome.Built between 1818 and 1824, the rotunda has been described as the Capitol's "symbolic and physical heart".
The United States Capitol. The statue crowning the dome, Statue of Freedom, is over 19 feet tall. Since 1856, the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. has featured some of the most prominent art in the United States, including works by Italian and Greek American artist Constantino Brumidi, [1] whose murals are located in the hallways of the first floor of the Senate side of the ...
United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C. General George Washington Resigning His Commission is a large-scale oil painting by American artist John Trumbull of General George Washington resigning his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783 to the Congress of the Confederation, then meeting in the ...
An 1800 portrait of the Capitol by William Russell Birch An 1814 portrait by George Munger of the U.S. Capitol after the burning of Washington by the British Army during the War of 1812 Daguerreotype of east side of the Capitol in 1846, by John Plumbe, showing Bulfinch's dome. The Senate (north) wing was completed in 1800.
Movement. Neoclassical. Awards. Congressional Gold Medal (posthumously) Constantino Brumidi (July 26, 1805 – February 19, 1880) was an Italian painter and a naturalised American citizen, best known and honored for his fresco work, Apotheosis of Washington, in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
The Statue of Freedom is a colossal bronze figure standing 191⁄2 ft (5.9 m) tall and weighing approximately 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg). Her crest peaks at 288 feet (88 m) above the east front plaza of the U.S. Capitol. [3] She is an allegorical figure whose right hand holds the hilt of a sheathed sword, while a laurel wreath of victory and the ...