“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of the...
Government facilities; Buildings; Rotundas; Paintings; Allegorical paintings
Large circle, painted in the center, with decorative elements forming a large border. It is the interior domed ceiling of the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. The fresco-style painting is called The Apotheosis of Washington. Descriptive information on...