apotheosis
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Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026
The museum said the leak - from a heating pipe - was stopped shortly after midnight and the only painting damaged was Charles Meynier's The Apotheosis of Poussin, Le Sueur and Le Brun.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026
Apotheosis isn’t always an unequivocal honor; it can also amount to an act of subversion.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021
So was the Apotheosis of Democracy pediment over the entrance to the House of Representatives on the U.S.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2015
In May, 1738, The Gentleman’s Magazine published The Apotheosis of Milton, a paper, full of interest, which ran through several numbers.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Summers, Montague
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