The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . the history of the young Repub-lic : armed Liberty with shield and sword conquering Royalty, the armoredsoldier in vain endeavoring to uphold the ermine at which the eagle with out-stretched wings strikes with beak and claws; Minerva, the Goddess of Artsand Sciences ; Ceres, of the Harvest; Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods,representing Eloquence and Commerce ; Vulcan, the God of Mechanics ; andNeptune, with his trident, the God of the Marine. The National Capitol 97 Just before his death, Rrumidi was criticised, especially in the pape
The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . the history of the young Repub-lic : armed Liberty with shield and sword conquering Royalty, the armoredsoldier in vain endeavoring to uphold the ermine at which the eagle with out-stretched wings strikes with beak and claws; Minerva, the Goddess of Artsand Sciences ; Ceres, of the Harvest; Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods,representing Eloquence and Commerce ; Vulcan, the God of Mechanics ; andNeptune, with his trident, the God of the Marine. The National Capitol 97 Just before his death, Rrumidi was criticised, especially in the papers ofthe South, for an alleged caricature of the leaders of the the artist always denied the accusation, it is interesting to observethe resemblance of the figures to the right of armed Liberty to Jefferson Davisand Alexander H. Stephens, the President and Vice-President of the Confed-eracy, and of the two figures to the left to General Robert E. Lee and JohnB. Floyd, the Secretary of War under Buchanan. The scene itself is certainly. THE CANOPY suggestive of the stamping out of the Rebellion : a thunder-bolt, representingthe wrath of the Gods, is being hurled from on high at Stephens; while thePresident of the Confederacy, with a lighted torch, is fleeing from the wrathof the colossal figure of armed Liberty above. But it is not possible thatBrumidi intended these as portraits ; for he was the friend of most of theConfederate leaders, and probably the last to see Jefferson Davis before heleft the capital for the South. When the artist first came to Washington toreside, the government was in the hands of the men who afterwards led in the7 98 The National Capitol Confederacy. He became intimate with them, and found them more conge-nial than many of Northern birth; for their temperaments were warm andItalian like his own. Nor, on the other hand, can he be justly accused of dis-loyalty to the Union; for he left Italy because of his republicanism, as hisfather be
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