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apotheosis

[uh-poth-ee-oh-sis, ap-uh-thee-uh-sis] / əˌpɒθ iˈoʊ sɪs, ˌæp əˈθi ə sɪs /


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Go the Capitol rotunda and look up at the dome, where Constantino Brumidi’s fresco The Apotheosis of Washington, painted during the Civil War, shows Washington in heaven, flanked by goddesses.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

The museum said the leak - from a heating pipe - was stopped shortly after midnight and the only painting damaged was Charles Meynier's The Apotheosis of Poussin, Le Sueur and Le Brun.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

In St. Petersburg on Wednesday, one activist stood on a busy sidewalk holding up a copy of Russia’s most famous antiwar painting, “The Apotheosis of War” by Vasily Vereshchagin.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022

So was the Apotheosis of Democracy pediment over the entrance to the House of Representatives on the U.S.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2015

September 30, 1914 ⁂ The Apotheosis of the Prussian Bully.

From Supplement To "Punch, Or The London Charivari."—October 14, 1914 "Punch" and the Prussian Bully by Various




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