Luigi Persico

[2] After noting the president that all the characters are now female, the Italian sculptor accepts the changes required by Adams and developed the figure of Hope leaning on an anchor.

In December of that year, Persico returned to Italy after Adams spoke to his desire to continue working at the sculptural decoration of the Capitol.

These two statues, made in Italy, are delivered in 1834, years during which Persico returns to America to sell works of Italian masters, and especially to reactivate its political networks for a new order official.

Columbus crowd finally guessed this land by his genius, he turned to Europe, and it shows a globe, a sign of the true shape of the earth, that ignorance and envy were obstinate to be considered a fanciful hypothesis.

While he thus abandons entirely the thoughts which fill his soul with a serious enthusiasm, an Indian woman looks at him with admiration and with awe at the same time: in his eyes, Columbus is a supernatural apparition, a demigod; one feels she does not know whether to flee or prostrate.

The difference in civilization between the two races is expressed by the softness and the nakedness of this woman, opposed to the male energy and the noble attitude of the European hero.

As for the attitude of the admiral, with his globe in hand, it strikes me as ridiculous Supreme: it looks like a warrior of XVIIth century playing baseball with a ball disproportionate.

I think it does not deserve to be reproduced here.Between 1958 and 1962, during the expansion and restoration of the Capitol, The Discovery of America and its counterpart, The Rescue, by Horatio Greenough, were removed permanently after controversy because of their negative representation of Native Americans.