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Artist/Creator (1)	Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (1).Role	architect
Artist/Creator (2)	Lawrie, Lee Oskar (1877-1961)
Artist/Creator (2).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (2).Role	artist, sculptor
Artist/Creator (3)	Meiere, Hildreth (1892-1961)
Artist/Creator (3).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (3).Role	artist, mosaic designer
Artist/Creator (4)	Edward Ardolino Company
Artist/Creator (4).Nationality	American
Artist/Creator (4).Role	artist, carver
Title/Caption	Nebraska State Capitol building
Site/Creative Center	Lincoln, Nebraska (United States)
Date of Work	built ca. 1920-1934
Inscription	POLITICAL SOCIETY EXISTS FOR THE SAKE OF NOBLE LIVING
Description of View	Exterior. South side. South pavilion. Detail view showing sculpture. Figures from left to right: Solon, Solomon, Julius Caesar, Justinian. Relief panels from left to right: the Signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Granting of the Magna Carta, and the Writing of the United States Constitution.
Notes	The south side of the Capitol features ten full-length figures of the 'Great Law-Givers of the Western World'. These include: Minos, Hammurabi, Moses, Akhnaton, Solon, Solomon, Julius Caesar, Justinian, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. [See the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Art Inventories Catalog, entry for Lawrie, Lee Oskar, 1877-1963, Nebraska State Capitol: South Side, (sculpture) http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12W58540223NK.7370&profile=ariall&uri=full=3100001~!343413~!64&ri=2&aspect=Browse&menu=search&source=~!siartinventories&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Lawrie,+Lee+Oskar,+1877-1963,+sculptor.&index=AUTHOR&uindex=&aspect=Browse&menu=search&ri=2 ]
Technique/Process	architecture, architectural sculpture
Materials/Medium	Indiana limestone
Century	20th Century
Subject	Architecture, American Sculpture, American Architecture, 20th Century Public buildings Legislative buildings Capitols Figures, male History, American History, English Laws (documents) Allegory (artistic device)
Collection Title	Architecture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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