American Pantheon: Sculptural And Artistic Decoration Of The United States Capitol

Like the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol was designed by its political and aesthetic arbiters to memorialize the virtues, events, and persons most representative of the nation's ideals-an attempt to raise a particular version of the nation's founding to the level of myth.

• | Edited By: Donald R. Kennon
• | Series: Perspectives on the Art and Architectural History of the United States Capitol
• | Publisher: Ohio University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 04, 2004
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780821414422