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Contributors William C. Allen has been the architectural historian in the Office of Architect of the Capitol since 1982. He previously served as chief architectural historian for the state of Mississippi. His authoritative History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction , and Politics (2001) is the most comprehensive architectural history of the Capitol. Cynthia R. Field is an architectural historian and the chair of the Office of Architectural History and Historic Preservation, as well as associate director of the Office of Physical Plant, Smithsonian Institution. She received her doctoral degree from Columbia University. Dr. Field is the author, with Richard E. Stamm and Heather P. Ewing, of The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building (1993). Isabelle Gournay is associate professor of architecture at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received a professional degree in architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and a doctorate in art history from Yale University. She is the author of Le Nouveau Trocadéro (1985) and the AIA Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta (1992), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries published in the United States, France, Canada, Italy, and Holland. Liana Paredes is curator of Western European Art at Hillwood Museum and Gardens. She is the author of Sèvres Porcelain at Hillwood (1998), French Furniture from the Collection of Hillwood Museum and Gardens (2003), and coauthor with Anne Odom of A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum (1998). Thomas P. Somma was a historian of American art and the director of the Mary Washington University Galleries at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He published and lectured extensively on American sculpture and public art, and his The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908–1916: The Pediment for the House Wing of the United States Capitol (1995) won the University of Delaware Press Award for best manuscript in American art. 157 ...

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