A practical guide to the Library of Congress paintings : with 92 key pictures and other illustrations and the library quotations (1903)
Washington : Foster & Reynolds · leaf 14
balustrade figures are Painting, Architecture and Sculpture. In the cove of the ceiling are Martiny’s flying half-figures supporting the device of lamp and book. Tablets bear the names of Moses, Herodotus, Dante, Homer, Milton, Bacon, Aristotle, Goethe, Shakespeare, Moliere; Cervantes, Hugo, Scott,… … America and Africa.
Library of Congress · Mural painting and decoration, American · Symbolism in art
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