2007-03-23 05:49:05 · 4 answers · asked by roc a wear 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The iron dome is surmounted by a statue of a woman representing Freedom, by the American sculptor Thomas Crawford.
2007-03-23 05:53:59 · answer #1 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called "Freedom" a work by Neoclassical sculptor Thomas Crawford. The piece was posthumously cast and hoisted atop the dome of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., amidst great festivities in 1860.
Crawford trained as a stonecutter in New York City. In 1835, he went to Rome, where he received some instruction from the Danish Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and where he remained for most of his life. At the time of his death his reputation rivaled that of Hiram Powers and Horatio Greenough as a leading American sculptor. The novelist Francis Marion Crawford was his son.
2007-03-23 11:24:10 · answer #2 · answered by Retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a statue entitled the "Statue of Freedom". that's a bronze statue by using Thomas Crawford. The statue is nineteen' 6" tall and weighs around 15,000 pounds. From beginning as much as end (alongside with molds and pouring), the statue took from 1855 to 1863. The plaster form of the statue is in the basement rotunda of the Russell Senate workplace construction.
2016-12-15 07:14:13 · answer #3 · answered by kleckner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom by Thomas Crawford
2007-03-23 07:27:30 · answer #4 · answered by BethS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋