Fig. 15. Ferdinand Pettrich,
Smithsonian American
Art Museum, museum
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
acquisition XX24.
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Fig. 12. The Frieze of American History in the Capitol Rotunda depicts nineteen scenes in American history. Begun in 1878
by Constantino Brumidi, it was continued after his death in 1880 by Filippo Costaggini; Allyn Cox completed a 31-foot gap
in the frieze in 1953.
