Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 · New York; London : Macmillan · leaf 85
GREENOUGH AND HIS TIMES 51 Olympian Zeus regnant in his pillared sanctuary, he conceived his " Washington " as a majestic, godlike figure enthroned beneath the vaulted arch of the Capitol and gilded by the filtered rays of far-fall- ing sunlight. The conception was exalted, grandiose, and in… … Fig. 5. — Greenough: Angel Abdiel, not seem a difficult problem of Art Institute, Chicago. engineering, it was apparently never attempted. The evicted giant was set up outside, opposite the eastern front of the Capitol, to view like another Moses the promised land from afar. And there he stands…
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