Constantino Brumidi

Constantino Brumidi (Rome, July 25th, 1805 - Washington, February 19th, 1880), is a historical painter italo/Greek-American more known and honoured for its frescos with the Capitole with the United States of America.

Biography

It is Greek by his father Stavro Broumidi, originating in Filiatra in Greece southernmost, and Italian by his mother, of Rome.

Very young person it shows its talent for the frescos and painted in several Roman palates, of which that of prince Torlonia and under Gregoire XVI, it works during three years with the Vatican.

In Rome, he is the pupil of Tommaso Minardi, cofounder of the Italian Purisme.

He emigrates in the United States after the occupation of Rome by the French troops in 1849 and is naturalized in 1852. He lives then in New York and paints many portraits.

He paints for the church St Stephen a fresco of the Crucifixion , a Martyre of saint Etienne and a Assomption of the Virgin .

Its first work in Capitole consists of work in the meeting room of the House of the Committee of the Agriculture, for which it receives eight dollars per day.

, Become painter of the government later, it paints the rotunda of Capitole and off inserts the Apotheosis George Washington in the dome, with other allegories and scenes of the American history, work which it will not finish before his death, but it will have decorated several other places with the building, of the halls to the Senate and Capitole, known now under the name of Brumidi corridors.

Works

Holy Trinity , cathedral of Mexico City
the Crucifixion , a Martyrdom of saint Etienne and a Assumption of the Virgin , St Stephen' S Church, New York
'St Peter and St Paul , Cathedral-Basilica off Sts. Peter and Paul with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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