rotunda
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A marvelous frieze chronicling American history, begun by the Italian-American artist Constantino Brumidi, overlooks the rotunda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Then head inside on the second floor rotunda to see the marvelous California history mural and the breathtaking globe chandelier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
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
Built in 1939 as the Floral Hall, the Ocean Room is a distinctive rotunda building, and for the past 50 years has operated as a night club and function venue.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025
The girls of the Menagerie entered through the rotunda doors in a wedge formation, their gowns glittering in the candlelight, the hoods of their capes shadowing their faces.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
A famous example was a 1986 column on the Solomon R. Guggenheim’s proposal to expand its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building by erecting a rectangular tower behind the smaller of the building’s two rotundas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Last year for Doors Open Day the Malin Group engineering firm which now inhabits one of the rotundas allowed the public to visit.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2024
TV news crews often do live hits and interviews from both rotundas.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2019
Paschina named his Bordeaux blend Octagon, after the shape Jefferson used for the rotundas at Barboursville and at his own Monticello.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2015
His ability seemed to him unimpeachable,—totus, teres, atque rotundas.
From My Novel — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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