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 30
on a vermillion ground, symbolize the Virtues. Fortitude is armor-clad, with casque, cuirass and greaves, buckler and mace. Justice sup- ports a globe, and holds a drawn sword. Industry’s emblems are the spindle, distaff and flax. Concordia, with olive branch, pours from a cornucopia grains of… … Wisdom. Understanding. Knowledge. Philosophy. Philosophy s attitude is of. reflection and meditation; in the background is a Greek temple, the ancient home of philosophy. The Senses.— By Robert Reid. In the ceiling the Senses are idealized as beautiful young women. Taste is sipping from a shell;…
Library of Congress · Mural painting and decoration, American · Symbolism in art
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