Talk:United States Capitol rotunda

message: How is this entire section about the artist and how he spent his life and that he put his wife's image into most of his work relevant to the fresco?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.104.29.213 (talk) 08:48, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Apotheosis of Washington

message: Much of the artwork has been criticized as misrepresentative and Euro-centric.  (See the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me.")  I think some of that should be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ACE603 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 6 March 2007
:Well, since I am not going to run out, buy it and read it just for this article, why don't you develop a well cited section and allow us to see it? --Daysleeper47 02:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's quite obvious that the images are misrepresentative and Euro-centric. I am not at all opposed to including this view, but it must be done in a brief way. --Edwin Herdman 00:07, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: criticisms

message: I plan to remove this from the top of the article in a week or so.  The reason is that the Brumidi Corridors have nothing to do with the Rotunda, except both feature artwork by the same artist, Constintino Brumidi.  Spatially, they're not even on the same floor of the building. ~ (The Rebel At) ~ 20:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging of Brumidi Corridors

message: The notion of Jefferson stepping on Adams foot in the painting is being debated.  I was wondering if anyone else had an opinion on this matter.
:There really isn't much room for debate.  See these photographs] I posted over in the article for the painting itself.  The feet do not touch.  Even in the original, smaller version of the painting, now at Yale University's art gallery, the feet do not cross over.~ (The Rebel At) ~ 22:15, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In association to this, earlier this evening, I just went ahead and removed the last of the Jefferson-Adams feud myth that still circulates around the content of the painting.  Like many stories in the Capitol, they may be entertaining, but that doesn't make them true. ~ (The Rebel At) ~ 01:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Painting of the Decleration of Independence

message: I'm finding the section Statues in the Rotunda very confusing.
First, in the list of five statues at From the Statuary Hall Collection, we have a bronze of George Washington by Houdon, "copy cast" in 1934. Second and immediately following the list, in the separate section George Washington, we says there's a bronze of Washington that is one of multiple castings from Houdon's marble original, this one made in 1853. So is this a different bronze from the copy cast in 1934? Seems unlikely that there are two castings of the same Houdon original in the rotunda. Third, we show a bronze statue of Washington by Houdon, although the text says that the bronze(s) are copies cast from Houdon's marble original.
The statue of Abraham Lincoln that is described immediately after Washington's: is that not part of the Statuary Hall Collection? Or maybe the terms of its display simply differ from the five, which are said to be on permanent display unless removed by act of Congress.
Following Lincoln, we describe the statue of Garfield. This seems clearly one of the five, so I don't understand why a description of the Lincoln statue intervenes between Washington and Garfield, or why the Washington and Garfield statues get a separate section of description when there's no amplification of the other three (Jackson, Eisenhower, Reagan).
After this, out of nowhere we get MLK, with the same kind of subhead as Washington, Lincoln, and Garfield.  It seems to me that MLK should get the subhead, but that Washington and Garfield should be subsumed under "From the Statuary Hall Collection," with no independent subhead required. As for Lincoln, see my confusion above. Cynwolfe (talk) 19:16, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statues in the Rotunda 

message: The article prephases the list of individuals lain in state with: 
Government officials and military officers to have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda are as follows
(emphasis mine)
However not all of these individuals were lain in state. For example, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was lain in state in the National Statuary Hall.
: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was supposed to have lain in state at the Rotunda but that was denied by the Senate Majority Leader at the time. The US House's website as well noted Ginsburg and Cummings to have not been lain in state at the Rotunda and I will amend that . Coasterghost (talk) 12:30, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Individuals Lain in State not in the rotunda