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Constantino Brumidi: Liberty   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Constantino Brumidi  (1805–1880)  wikidata:Q983643
 
Constantino Brumidi
Alternative names
pseudonym: Broumidēs, Kōnstantinos; Costantino Brumidi; Kōnstantinos Mproumidēs; Kōnstantinos Broumidēs; Constantine Brumidi; Brumidi; Konstantinos Broumidis; Konstantinos Mproumides
Description Italian-American painter
Date of birth/death 26 July 1805 Edit this at Wikidata 19 February 1880 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Rome, Italy Washington, D.C.
Work period 1825 Edit this at Wikidata–1880 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q983643
Title
Liberty
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
one of a pair of ceiling-mounted paintings representing the concepts of liberty and union.
Date 1869
date QS:P571,+1869-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 159.9 cm (62.9 in); width: 129.2 cm (50.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,159.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,129.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q35525
Current location
Washington, DC
Credit line The White House Historical Association (White House Collection)
Notes

From Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008.
"Mounted in the ceiling [of the White House Entrance Hall], Liberty and Union were painted in a modified illusionistic style found especially in Venetian ceiling paintings of the 16th century . . . .

"The personification of Liberty, crowned with golden stars symbolizing the original states, is sturdily poised and dynamically draped as she defends the flag with her body and her weapons. Her attitude and expression are at once vigilant and serene . . . . Her weapons, whose triangular placement stabilizes the composition, are held in abeyance, the sword's point behind her shoulder and the spear entwined with red ribbon and the laurel wreath of victory."
Source/Photographer White House Historical Association
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