“At no distant day some memorial will be erected in some appropriate place in the Capitol to his memory. He who beautifies the pathway of life, who creates images of loveliness for the human eye to rest upon, is a benefactor of the human race. He will be crowned by the gratitude of his own and of succeeding generations. In the older countries of Europe, where the profession of art has a higher rank than here, Brumidi would have had a public funeral, and his remains would have been deposited in ground set apart for persons of distinction. In England he would have had a place and a tablet in Westminster Abbey. “It matters little, however, whether we or those who come after us do anything to perpetuate his memory. The walls of this Capitol will hold his fame fresh and ever increasing as long as they themselves shall stand.” Supplement READING LIST BOOKS BROWN, GLEN. _History of the United States Capitol_, Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, 1900-03. FRY, SMITH DUNBAR. _Thrilling Story of the Wonderful Capitol Building and Its Marvelous Decorations, Washington_, D. C., 1911. FAIRMAN, CHARLES E. _Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States_, Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, 1927 (69th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document 95). FRY, SMITH D. _Fry’s Patriotic Story of the Capitol_, Washington, D. C. Rufus H. Carby Printing Company, 1911. HAZELTON, GEORGE C. _The National Capitol, Its Architecture, Art, and History_, New York, J. F. Taylor and Company, 1903. HEPBURN AND A COMMISSION, _Documentary History of the Construction and Development of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds_, Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, 1903-04 (58th Congress, 2nd Session, House Report No. 646). KEIM, DE B. RANDOLPH. _Keim’s Capitol Interior and Diagrams_, Washington, D. C. McGill & Witherow, 1874. WYETH, S. D. _Description of Brumidi’s Allegorical Painting within the Canopy of the Rotunda_, Washington, D. C., Gibson Bros., Printers, 1866. ROMANO, FILIPPO AGRICOLA, _Report of Restorations of the Vatican upon Those Painted by the School of Raphael_. Printing House of Crispino Puccinelli, Rome, 1842. DENNISON, ELEANOR E., _The Senate Foreign Relations Committee_. Stanford University Press, 1942. NEWSPAPERS _The Washington Post_ “Death of Brumidi,” Feb. 20, 1880. “Historical Frieze in Capitol Finished after Many Years,” Jan. 16, 1921. _The Washington Star_ “Funeral of Constantino Brumidi,” Feb. 21, 1880. “The President’s Room at the Capitol,” April 13, 1913. “Artist Is Restoring Capitol’s Great Paintings,” April 13, 1919. “Brumidi Paintings Found in Washington after a Search of Forty Years,” Nov. 2, 1919. “Moberly Restoring Brumidi Decorations at Capitol,” Aug. 14, 1921. _The Daily Evening Telegraph_