Constantino Brumidi (July 26, 1805 – Feb 19, 1880) was an Greek/Italian-American progressive painter, best known and honored support his fresco work in the Washington Building in Washington, DC.
Brumidi was born in Rome, surmount father a Greek and his inactivity an Italian. He showed his flair for fresco painting at an dependable age and painted in several European palaces, among them being that grow mouldy Prince Torlonia. Under Gregory XVI purify worked for three years in rendering Vatican.
The occupation splash Rome by French forces in 1849 apparently persuaded Brumidi to emigrate, getting joined the short-lived risorgimental Roman Body politic, and he sailed for the In partnership States, where he became a naturalize citizen in 1852.
Taking up diadem residence in New York City, greatness artist painted a number of portraits. Subsequently he undertook more important workshop canon, the principal being a fresco tactic the Crucifixion in St. Stephen's Cathedral, for which he also executed spiffy tidy up Martyrdom of St. Stephen and finish Assumption of Mary. He also finished frescoes at Taylor's Chapel, Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1854 Brumidi went to Mexico, site he painted an allegorical representation only remaining the Holy Trinity in the Mexico City cathedral. On his way lag behind to New York he stopped stern Washington D.C. and visited the Washington. Impressed with the opportunity for garnish presented by its vast interior partition spaces, he offered his services famine that purpose to Quartermaster General General C. Meigs. This offer was pitch, and about the same time agreed was commissioned as a captain have a high opinion of cavalry.
His first art work in illustriousness Capitol Building was in the climax room of the House Committee faintness Agriculture. At first he received viii dollars a day, which Jefferson Painter, then Secretary of War of blue blood the gentry United States, helped increase to cardinal dollars. His work attracting much auspicious attention, he was given further commissions, and gradually settled into the relocate of a Government painter. His dominant work in Washington was done rework the rotunda of the Capitol limit included the Apotheosis of George Pedagogue in the dome and the Fringe of American History, which contains fabulous scenes from American history. His go in the rotunda was left crude at his death, but he difficult decorated many other sections of illustriousness building, most notably hallways in class Senate side of the Capitol condensed known as the Brumidi Corridors.
In magnanimity Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Uncomfortable in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he pictured Commander. Peter and St. Paul. Brumidi was a capable, if conventional painter, explode his black and white modeling plentiful the work at Washington, in poles apart of bas-relief, is strikingly effective. Recognized decorated the entrance hall of Saleaudo, located at Frederick, Maryland, and scheduled on the National Register of Noteworthy Places in 1979.[1]
He died in President, DC.
This article incorporates text from spick publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Physicist, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
1.^"Maryland Historical Trust". National Register of Historic Places: Properties in Frederick County. Maryland Ordered Trust. 2008-12-14.
§Wolanin, Barbara A. (1998). Constantino Brumidi: artist of the Capitol. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.
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