Pompeii on the Potomac: Brumidi's 19th Century, Roman-style Frescos in the US Capitol
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Elise Friedland discussesd the early 19th-Century publication that Constantino Brumidi used to design and execute the frescos in the U.S. Capitol, Wilhelm Zahn's massive elephant folio on the newly-discovered frescos from Pompeii. Speaker Biography: Elise Friedland is professor of classics and art history at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8363
