Author: Myrtle Cheney Murdock
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
"Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol" by Myrtle Cheney Murdock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol
Author: Myrtle Cheney Murdock
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
"Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol" by Myrtle Cheney Murdock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
"Constantino Brumidi, Michelangelo of the United States Capitol" by Myrtle Cheney Murdock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Constantino Brumidi
Author: Barbara Ann Wolanin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mural painting and decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mural painting and decoration
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860
Author: Irma B. Jaffe
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823212491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Annotation. Sixteen essays examine aspects of American art that owe a debt to Italy and Italian artists. A central theme is the tension between perceptions of Italy as a mythic presence, the visual incarnation of spirit, and a contrasting ambivalence felt by many Americans about the cultural ties binding them to Europe despite their political independence. With some 200 illustrations, 36 in color. Not indexed. Pre-publication price, $49.95, until 12-31-90. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823212491
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Annotation. Sixteen essays examine aspects of American art that owe a debt to Italy and Italian artists. A central theme is the tension between perceptions of Italy as a mythic presence, the visual incarnation of spirit, and a contrasting ambivalence felt by many Americans about the cultural ties binding them to Europe despite their political independence. With some 200 illustrations, 36 in color. Not indexed. Pre-publication price, $49.95, until 12-31-90. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Keim's Illustrated Hand-book
Author: De Benneville Randolph Keim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
To Make Beautiful the Capitol
Author: Diane K. Skvarla
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160921001
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Detailed history of renowned Italian-born artist Constantino Brumidi's masterful work "making beautiful" the walls and ceilings of the United States Capitol over a span of 25 years starting in 1854. Every page delights with gorgeous, full-color photographs and images of Brumidi's art, from photographs of the frescoes and decoration, to sketches, paintings and images of the artist, particularly the Brumidi Corridors and his "monumental fresco" in the Capitol Rotunda, called The Apotheosis of Washington. Fascinating anecdotes are included throughout of the artist and the inspirations he received for various elements, his relationship with engineer Montgomery C. Meigs, and the conservation efforts to preserve his work accurately for posterity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780160921001
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Detailed history of renowned Italian-born artist Constantino Brumidi's masterful work "making beautiful" the walls and ceilings of the United States Capitol over a span of 25 years starting in 1854. Every page delights with gorgeous, full-color photographs and images of Brumidi's art, from photographs of the frescoes and decoration, to sketches, paintings and images of the artist, particularly the Brumidi Corridors and his "monumental fresco" in the Capitol Rotunda, called The Apotheosis of Washington. Fascinating anecdotes are included throughout of the artist and the inspirations he received for various elements, his relationship with engineer Montgomery C. Meigs, and the conservation efforts to preserve his work accurately for posterity.
Keim's Illustrated Hand-Book
Author: Randolph Keim
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368839187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368839187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Keim's Illustrated Hand-book, Washington and Its Environs
Author: De Benneville Randolph Keim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
American Pantheon
Author: Donald R. Kennon
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Like the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol was designed by its political and aesthetic arbiters to memorialize the virtues, events, and persons most representative of the nation's ideals--an attempt to raise a particular version of the nation's founding to the level of myth. American Pantheon examines the influences upon not only those virtues and persons selected for inclusion in the American pantheon, but also those excluded. Two chapters address the exclusion of slavery and African Americans from the art in the Capitol, a silence made all the more deafening by the major contributions of slaves and free black workers to the construction of the building. Two other authors consider the subject of women emerging as artists, subjects, patrons, and proponents of art in the Capitol, a development that began to emerge only in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Rotunda, the Capitol's principal ceremonial space, was designed in part as an art museum of American history--at least the authorized version of it. It is explored in several of the essays, including discussions of the influence of the early-nineteenth-century Italian sculptors who provided the first sculptural reliefs for the room and the contributions of the mid-nineteenth-century Italian American artist Constantino Brumidi, to the mix of allegory, mythology, and history that permeates the space and indeed the Capitol itself.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Like the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol was designed by its political and aesthetic arbiters to memorialize the virtues, events, and persons most representative of the nation's ideals--an attempt to raise a particular version of the nation's founding to the level of myth. American Pantheon examines the influences upon not only those virtues and persons selected for inclusion in the American pantheon, but also those excluded. Two chapters address the exclusion of slavery and African Americans from the art in the Capitol, a silence made all the more deafening by the major contributions of slaves and free black workers to the construction of the building. Two other authors consider the subject of women emerging as artists, subjects, patrons, and proponents of art in the Capitol, a development that began to emerge only in the second half of the nineteenth century. The Rotunda, the Capitol's principal ceremonial space, was designed in part as an art museum of American history--at least the authorized version of it. It is explored in several of the essays, including discussions of the influence of the early-nineteenth-century Italian sculptors who provided the first sculptural reliefs for the room and the contributions of the mid-nineteenth-century Italian American artist Constantino Brumidi, to the mix of allegory, mythology, and history that permeates the space and indeed the Capitol itself.
The Capital Image
Author: Andrew J. Cosentino
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Temple of Liberty
Author: Pamela Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This work describes the building of the first Capitol building in Washington, DC. It follows its progress from the story of the iconography behind the design, the role of Washington and Jefferson in the planning of the design, and the account of the competition for the design - to the development of the exterior, House and Senate wings, and transformation into that building which exists today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This work describes the building of the first Capitol building in Washington, DC. It follows its progress from the story of the iconography behind the design, the role of Washington and Jefferson in the planning of the design, and the account of the competition for the design - to the development of the exterior, House and Senate wings, and transformation into that building which exists today.