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Title:

The United States Capitol : designing and decorating a national icon / edited by Donald R. Kennon.

Publisher:

Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

ix, 316 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Subject:

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--Congresses.
Architecture, Modern--17th-18th centuries--Washington (D.C.)--Congresses.
Architecture, Modern--19th century--Washington (D.C.)--Congresses.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Washington (D.C.)--Congresses.
Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Kennon, Donald R., 1948-
United States Capitol Historical Society.

Notes:

Papers from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society's first two conferences dedicated to the history and appreciation of the U.S. Capitol. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Worthy of national commemoration" : national Statuary Hall and the heroic ideal, 1864-1997 / Teresa B. Lachin. Forms into architecture : reform ideals and the gauntlets of the real in Latrobe's surveyorships at the U.S. Capitol, 1803-1817 / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- Charles Bulfinch : well-connected, refined gentleman architect / Pamela Scott -- Thomas U. Walter and the search for propriety / James M. Goode -- Right-hand men : the development of the Office of Architect of the Capitol, 1865-1954 / William B. Bushong -- Historicization of the U.S. Capitol and the Office of Architect, 1954-1996 / Richard Guy Wilson -- Artist of the Capitol / Barbara A. Wolanin -- Study of Constantino Brumidi's painting technique in the Senate corridors / Catherine S. Myers -- Brumidi and the case of the mutant mantel clock : national iconography in decorative projects for the House of Representatives extenion, 1855-1858 / David Sellin -- Emanuel Leutze's Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way : imagining Manifest Destiny, the "Stars and Stripes," and the Civil War / Daniel Clayton Lewis -- Albert Bierstadt : history painter for the U.S. Capitol / Kimberly A. Jones -- "Worthy of national commemoration" : national Statuary Hall and the heroic ideal, 1864-1997 / Teresa B. Lachin.

Series:

Perspectives on the art and architectural history of the United States Capitol

ISBN:

9780821413029 (pbk.)
0821413023 (pbk.)
9780821413012 (cl. : acid-free paper)
0821413015 (cl. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41504972

LCCN:

99032188

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)