Apotheosis of Washington, Frieze of American History
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.
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ConstantinoBrumidi (July 26, 1805 – February 19, 1880) was an Italian painter and a naturalised American citizen, best known and honored for his fresco...
named for ConstantinoBrumidi, who designed the murals, although assistants and other artists are responsible for many of the details. Brumidi was an Italian...
Apotheosis of Washington is the fresco painted by Greek-Italian artist ConstantinoBrumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda...
oculus at the top of the inner dome. In 1862, Walter asked painter ConstantinoBrumidi to design "a picture 65 feet (20 m) in diameter, painted in fresco...
decorated public rooms that features the work of Italian artist ConstantinoBrumidi. The room, numbered S-213, has historically been used for meetings...
and a complexly patterned Minton encaustic tile floor. In 1869 ConstantinoBrumidi, the fresco painter who had recently painted The Apotheosis of Washington...
artist ConstantinoBrumidi and his murals in the hallways of the first floor of the Senate side of the Capitol. The murals, known as the Brumidi Corridors...
should design American public works—the selection of Italian-born ConstantinoBrumidi to decorate the Capitol had provoked intense criticism, even though...
last aspects of the dome. Just over a month later, in January 1866, ConstantinoBrumidi—who had been hired to paint a fresco on a platform above the interior...
from Rome, Italy, who worked in the United States Capitol. He and ConstantinoBrumidi both trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and he came to...
Peacemakers by George P.A. Healy, 1868 Liberty by ConstantinoBrumidi, 1869 Union by ConstantinoBrumidi, 1869 Sailing off the Coast by Martin Johnson Heade...
and graduation. The large painting above the altar is the work of ConstantinoBrumidi, famous for painting the frescoes on the interior of the United States...
including a severed head and alligator Detail from a 1855–1856 fresco by ConstantinoBrumidi in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Columbia (left) and a late...
1878. pp. 306–311. Nazzaro, Pellegrino (2000). "The Italian Years". ConstantinoBrumidi: Artist of the Capitol (PDF). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing...
the Transcontinental Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska. In 1866 ConstantinoBrumidi completed the frescoed interior of the United States Capitol dome...
the Supreme Court Bust Collection. Her sculpture of ConstantinoBrumidi is located in the Brumidi Corridors. She was friends with Roger L. Stevens, who...
tiles from England (the same still found in the Brumidi Corridors, designed by artist ConstantinoBrumidi), but were eventually replaced in the 1920s with...
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