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Victory carries Washington into heaven while Fame, depicted twice, announces his accomplishments by trumpet and inscribes them on a pillar. At right the god Zeus’s chains have been loosened. Mourning figures on the left represent the Monarchy, Liberty, America, and Atropos, the Fate said to cut the thread of life.
George Washington (estátua) George Washington. (estátua) George Washington (1840) é uma escultura enorme esculpida por Horatio Greenough a pedido da comissão do centenário do presidente dos Estados Unidos George Washington que nasceu em 1732. [ 1][ 2]
George Washington. Horatio Greenough American. 1827–28; carved, ca. 1832. Not on view. When this bust of George Washington first entered the collection in 1884, it was attributed to the Italian sculptor, Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850). The sculpture was subsequently reattributed, however, to one of Bartolini's American pupils, Horatio Greenough.
Painted in 1865 by Constantino Brumidi, the Apotheosis of Washington in the eye of the U.S. Capitol Building's Rotunda depicts George Washington rising to the heavens in glory, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory/Fame and surrounded by six groups of figures. The fresco is suspended 180 feet above the Rotunda floor and ...
By Andrew Glass. 07/31/2007 06:03 AM EDT. On this day in 1841, a ship that had sailed from Leghorn, Italy, docked at the Washington Navy Yard. It carried a 10-foot-high marble statue of George ...
25 de jun. de 2021 · Detail of "George Washington," 1840, by Horatio Greenough ... It’s based on one of the Seven Wonders of the World — an approximately 40-foot-high statue of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus in ...
Vagabond Statue. On July 31, 1841, a sailing vessel from Leghorn, Italy, docked at the Washington Navy Yard. It carried a massive 10-foot-high, 12-ton marble statue of a seated man wearing only a Roman toga. The artist was the noted American sculptor Horatio Greenough; the marble man, modeled after the Greek god Zeus, was George Washington.
