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Above four of the large Rotunda paintings in the U.S. Capitol are decorative panels of wreaths and portraits of early explorers carved in relief into the sandstone walls. The three sculptors who decorated the Rotunda were employed during the rebuilding of the Capitol after the fire of 1814. Between
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Above four of the large Rotunda paintings in the U.S. Capitol are decorative panels of wreaths and portraits of early explorers carved in relief into the sandstone walls. The three sculptors who decorated the Rotunda were employed during the rebuilding of the Capitol after the fire of 1814. Between
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Above four of the large Rotunda paintings in the U.S. Capitol are decorative panels of wreaths and portraits of early explorers carved in relief into the sandstone walls. The three sculptors who decorated the Rotunda were employed during the rebuilding of the Capitol after the fire of 1814. Between
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Solon (c. 638-559 B.C.) Athenian statesman. Author of constitutional and legal reforms.
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The Frieze of American History in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol contains a painted panorama depicting significant events in American history.
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Tribonian (c. 500-547) Byzantine jurist. Head of the commission that codified the laws under Justinian I.
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Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) English jurist. Professor of common law at Oxford; author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, which had considerable influence on the importation and adaptation of English common law in America.
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The bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has been on display in the Capitol Rotunda since 1986. The bronze sculpture is 36 inches high on a 66-inch high Belgian black marble base.
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Suleiman (1494-1566) Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Reformed and improved civil and military codes; united a group of unstable territories into an empire.
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The Relief Portraits of Lawgivers depict historical figures noted for their work in establishing the principles that underlie American law.
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William Henry Powell’s canvas shows Spanish conquistador and explorer Hernando De Soto riding a white horse and dressed in Renaissance finery arriving at the Mississippi River.
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This statue of Sarah Winnemucca was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Nevada in 2005.
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This statue of Sequoyah was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Oklahoma in 1917. His statue was the first honoring a Native American to be chosen for the collection.
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This statue of Stephen Austin was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Texas in 1905.
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Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was a U.S. senator from Missouri and served as president of the United States from 1945 to 1953. Missouri gave this statue of him to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2022. Artist Tom Corbin (1954- ) took up modeling and bronze casting in his thirties and now
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Arkansas gave this statue to the National Statuary Hall Collection in 2024. It is sculptor Benjamin Victor's fourth statue to enter the collection, the most of any living artist.
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This statue of Wade Hampton was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by South Carolina in 1929.
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This statue of Chief Washakie was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Wyoming in 2000. Washakie's prowess in battle, his efforts for peace and his commitment to his people's welfare made him one of the most respected leaders in Native American history.
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This statue of Will Rogers was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Oklahoma in 1939.
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This statue of William Edgar Borah was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Idaho in 1947.
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This statue of William Henry Harrison Beadle was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by South Dakota in 1938.
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Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca tribe was the central figure of an 1879 court case that established that Native Americans are "persons" under the law and are entitled to the same rights as anyone else in the nation.
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This statue of William King was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Maine in 1878. King served as the first governor of the state of Maine.
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This statue of Zebulon Vance was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by North Carolina in 1916. Vance was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, governor of North Carolina and U.S. Senator.
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This statue of Samuel Jordan Kirkwood was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Iowa in 1913.
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This statue of Philip Kearny was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Jersey in 1888.
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Martha Maria "Mattie" Hughes Cannon (1857-1932) was a physician, women's suffrage leader and orator, public health advocate, and the first woman elected to a state senate in the United States.
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This statue of Po'pay was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Mexico in 2005.
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This statue of Richard Stockton was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by New Jersey in 1888.
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This statue of Robert Fulton was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Pennsylvania in 1889. Fulton was an engineer and inventor best remembered for building America's first steamboat.