Figs. 4A-4B. Brumidi's training in sculpture gave him the skills to design graceful scenes with figures arranged in a shallow space.
In both his marble relief for the Roman tomb and in his first fresco for the Capitol, his use of light and shadow makes the figures
look three dimensional.
Figs. 5A-5B. Brumidi made copies of Landi's pain ngs as a student and used a similar pale e of deep reds and blues for the
draperies of his comparable neoclassical figures.
Fig. 4B. Constan no Brumidi, The Calling of Cincinnatus from the Plow, 1855, painted for the House Commi ee on Agriculture,
H-144, U.S. Capitol. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Fig. 5B. Constan no Brumidi, Telegraph, 1867, S-211, U.S. Capitol. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
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