On this episode of Our American Stories in Constantino Brumidi arrived in New York as a refugee from Rome He was already an accomplished artist but in America he found the work that would consume the rest of his life For the next twenty-five years Brumidi climbed scaffolds painted ceilings and covered the halls of the U S Capitol with scenes drawn from American history and the ideals of his adopted country His greatest work waited feet above the Rotunda floor There inside the Capitol dome Brumidi painted George Washington known to many as America's Indispensable Man rising into the
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