Happy President’s Day 2010!
I thought in honor of President’s Day I would share some images of the men who inspired the holiday…
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George Washington as Zeus – this statue was sculpted by Horatio Greenough. In 1832 by the U.S. Congress commissioned a grand sculpture of George Washington based on the statue on the classical Greek statue of Zeus. The controversial statue arrived at the Capitol Rotunda nearly 10 years later. Many found the half-nude Washington statue offensive and it was removed and relocated. It is currently located on the second floor of the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C..
The Abraham Lincoln image is from salon.com’s less-than-stellar review of well-respected sex researcher C.A. Tripp’s posthumously published attempt drag Honest Abe out of the Presidential closet… The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. Somehow I doubt the painting was in the book.
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