the Apothe[s]osis of Washington.......PICS


	the Apothe[s]osis of Washington.......PICS
leevardi
9-16-2009 6:59 PM
104 views
leevardi says:
.........for those who are reading Dan Brown's NEW book OR William Henry's OLD ones.
Add a Comment
Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up
Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from September 16, 2009
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/be7db6a2-ee12-43eb-a239-0a3c2e9ab112/1EBF453F-BEDF-4335-88F4-3EA55E58B8A8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm" href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.aoc.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apotheosis_1.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="The Apotheosis of Washington" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apotheosis1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apotheosis_1.cfm">The Apotheosis of Washington Photograph</A> (42k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_center.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="George Washington rising to the heavens" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_center1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_center.cfm">George Washington Rising to the Heavens</A> (37k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_comm.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="Commerce" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_comm1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_comm.cfm">"Commerce"</A> (38k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_mar.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="Marine" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_mar1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_mar.cfm">"Marine"</A> (37k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_sci.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="Science" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_sci1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_sci.cfm">"Science"</A> (37k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_war.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt=""War"" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_war1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_war.cfm">"War"</A> (38k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_mech.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_mech1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_mech.cfm">"Mechanics"</A> (37k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><DIV class="pagesetimagenav"> 	
		<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_agri.cfm"><IMG border="0" alt="Agriculture" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/apoth_agri1.jpg" /></A>
<A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_agri.cfm">"Agriculture"</A> (39k)<BR /><IMG width="1" height="4" alt="" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/spacer.gif" name="spacerMate" />
        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm"><P>The Capitol's cast-iron dome was designed in 1854 by <A href="http://www.aoc.gov/aoc/architects/walter.cfm" id="CP___PAGEID=8790,walter.cfm,8|">Thomas U. Walter,</A> the fourth Architect of the Capitol, who had also designed the building's <A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/capitol_construction.cfm#1830" id="CP___PAGEID=4645,capitol_construction.cfm,33|">north and south extensions</A>. Work on the dome began in 1856; in 1859 Walter redesigned the structure to consist of an inner and outer dome. A canopy suspended between them would be visible through an oculus, or eye, at the top of the inner dome, and in 1862 Walter asked Brumidi to furnish a design for "a picture 65 feet in diameter, painted in fresco, on the concave canopy over the eye of the New Dome of the U.S. Capitol." It is possible that Brumidi added a watercolor image of his final canopy design over a tentative sketch on Walter's 1859 drawing at this time. (A <A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/dome_xsec.cfm" id="CP___PAGEID=4714,dome_xsec.cfm,33|">photograph of the entire drawing</A> [35k] and a <A href="http://www.aoc.gov/cc/capitol/dome_xsec_canopy.cfm" id="CP___PAGEID=3845,dome_xsec_canopy.cfm,33|">detail of the canopy area</A> [65k] are available.)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1EBF453F-BEDF-4335-88F4-3EA55E58B8A8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard
Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment
Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch
Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map
About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA
Search Options

Today's Top Clips
