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9. A.V. Jervis, "Costantino Brumidi," La Pittura in Italia: L'Ottocento, Milan: Elect, 1991. e discovery of the signature was announced at a May 12, 2006 conference on Brumidi in Rome. 10. For example, Brumidi copied Rembrandt Peale's portrait of George Washington in the Senate Chamber for his mural in the President's Room, and the faces of the signers in his fresco Signing of the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain were copied from famous portraits. 11. "Antonio Camuccini," Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiani, 17, 1970, pp. 627-630. 12. e other signers of Del purismo nelle arti were Tommaso Minardi, Friedrich Overbeck, and Pietro Ten- erani. G. Di Genova-G. Orioli, "BIANCHINI, Antonio". In Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. X, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1968. 13. e copy of Guido Reni's Aurora that Brumidi gave to Moses Titcomb is now in the Dartmouth College Mu- seum and Galleries, Gift of Moses Titcomb, 1879. Another copy was auctioned by Adam A. Weschler and Son in 1970 and again in 2003. 14. e coffee shop would be a major part of his livelihood. In 1832 he married Maria Covaluzzi, six weeks before their daughter, Maria Elena Brumidi, was born. His wife died in 1838, less than a year after his mother's death. Within four months of becoming a young widower, undoubtedly needing a mother for his young daughter and someone to help run the coffee shop, as well as the benefit of a dowry, he married sixteen-year-old Anna Rovelli. eir son, Giuseppe Antonio Raffaello Brumidi, was born in early 1842. ASVR, Tabularium Vicariatus Rubis, Parish of SS. Quirico et Giuilitta. 15. "e Critic," unidentified newspaper clipping, c. 1880; B. Delaney, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 1972, p. 513. 16. Guiseppe Chechetelli, Una giornata de osservazione nel Palazzo e nella Villa di S.E. il Principe D. Alessandro Torlonia (Rome: Tipografia de Crispino Pucinelli, 1842), pp. 8–9. 17. Checchetelli, Una giornata, pp. 57–58 and 60. 18. Marco Fabio Apolloni, Alberta Campitelli, Antonio Pinelli, Barbara Steindl, "La Villa di Alessandro Torlonia," in La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Richerche de Storia dell'arte 28–29, 1987, pp. 5–35, and Appendix 6, p. 167. 19. Under curator Alberta Campitelli, the murals were documented and published, their conservation was undertaken, and funding was found to fully restore the the- ater. See Alberta Campitelli, ed., Villa Torlonia: L'Ultima Impresa del Mecanatismo Romano, Rome: Istituto Poligrafi- co e Zecca dello Stato, 1997; Alberta Campitelli, ed., Villa Torlonia: Guida, Rome: Commune di Roma, 2006. 20. Pellegrino Nazzaro, "e Italian Years," in Wola- nin, Constantino Brumidi, pp. 16–17 and note 6, p. 23. 21. Wendy Wolff, ed., Capitol Builder: e Shorthand Journals of Montgomery C. Meigs, 1853–1859, 1861 (Wash- ington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2001), p. 106. Jamie Whitacre discovered that the three volumes are now in the Morgan Library in New York. 22. Letter from Secretary of State [Giacomo Antonelli] to Cardinal Camerlengo [Riario Sforza] enclosing the peti- tion of Brumidi to the Pope (ASR, Camerlengato, Titolo IV, Parte II, b. 290 (int. 3284). 23. Nazzaro, "e Italian Years," p. 20. 24. Giulio Romano, "Costantino Brumidi un Michel- angelo da Esportai," Concretezza, Aug. 16, 1976, pp 29–31. 25. In May 1849, when convents were taken over to house troops, Brumidi removed furniture, paintings, and valuables to his studio and the Lateran Palace. ASR, Archivio Repubblica Romana 1849, vol. 62, f. 154. e re- cord of his admission into prison lists him as a shopkeeper (negoziante). ASR, Sacra Consulta Processi Politici, b. 231, posiz. n. 373). 26. Nazzaro, "e Italian Years," p. 20. Brumidi painted portraits of Dr. John Norris, William J. Norris, and Mrs. William J. Norris, all in private collections. 27. Lamberto De Camillis, La Madonna dell'Archetto, Storia del piu' piccolo santuario Mariano di Roma, Rome: Edizione Soc. Promotrice di Buone Opere, 1951, p. 32. 28. Nazzaro, "e Italian Years," p. 22, endnotes 22 and 23, p. 23. 29. Date inscribed in the Bible given to him by the American Bible Society, donated to the Architect of the Capitol by Mildred ompson. 30. December 28, 1854, Wendy Wolff, ed., Capitol Builder, p. 180. 31. Smith D. Fry, rilling Story of the Wonderful Capitol Building and Its Marvelous Decorations (n.p., 1911), p. 41. 17 THE CAPITOL DOME SPRING 2014