Topping the Dome (edit title/settings)

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• Thomas Crawford: American Sculptor (1811-1857) and creator of Freedom on Capitol Dome
• Louisa Ward Crawford: Thomas Crawford's wife (1823-1897)
• Charles Sumner: Great abolitionist and Massachusetts Senator. Patron of Crawford
• Clark Mills (1810-1883): Self taught sculptor and bronze founder.
• George Washington Greene (1811-1883: Writer and patron of Crawford
• Captain Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892): Supervisor of Capitol construction
• Julia Ward Howe: Louisa Crawford's sister
• Samuel Gridley Howe: Husband of Julia Ward Howe and important abolitionist
• Luther Terry: Friend of Thomas Crawford
• Jefferson Davis: Senator, Secretary of War and Confederate President
• Bertil Thorvaldsen: Danish Sculptor and teacher of Crawford
• Horatio Greenough: First American Sculptor in Rome, then Florence. Friend of Crawford.
• Hiram Powers: American sculptor, contemporary of Crawford
• Robert Mills: Architect of Washington Monument and competitor of Crawford
• Randolf Rogers: American sculptor
• Thomas Ustic Walters: Architect of the Capitol extensions and Dome
• Philip Reid: Clark Mills' slave and foundry assistant
• Conway Robinson: Crawford's lawyer and friend in Richmond, VA
• Secretary of War John Floyd: Fired Meigs
• Captain William B. Franklin: Replaced Meigs
• Dr. Louis August-Desmarres: Crawford's French ophthalmologist
• Dr. William Gibson: Physician consultant to Crawford in Rome
• Henry Wadsworth Logfellow: Friend of Crawford, Sumner and Greene

Quotes edit see section history

• “"The darkness of allegory must give place to common sense. I have faith enough to believe that poetry and grandeur are inseparably connected with the history of our country's past and future and that the dignity of sculpture may well be devoted to the perpetuation of what people love and understand."”

  Thomas Crawford in his letter to Captain Meigs September, 1853

• “"Thus sir, speaking for Freedom in Kansas, I have spoken for Freedom everywhere, and for Civilization: and, as the less is contained in the greater, so are all the arts, all sciences, all economies, all refinements, all charities, all delights of life, embodied in this cause. You may reject it: but it will be only for today. The sacred animosity between Freedom and Slavery can end only with the triumph of Freedom."”

  Senator Charles Sumner in his June4, 1860 speech on the Senate floor, THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY.

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Rome
• George Washington
• America
• Richmond
• Boston
• New York
• Italy
• South Carolina
• Paris
• Florence
• Virginia
• Charleston
• Munich
• Athenaeum
• Massachusetts
• Carlotta
• Europe
• White House
• France
• London
• Paolo
• Tennessee
• Carrara
• Kansas
• Atlantic
• Capitol
• West Point
• Harvard
• New England
• Mount Vernon
• Vatican
• Illinois
• United States
• Baltimore
• Newport

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 973

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › History › Americas › United States › Civil War › Abolition
• Books › Arts & Photography › Sculpture