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[[caption-width-right:350:[[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Hail to the chief, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.]]]]

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* AnachronismStew: The "Marine" scene has the Roman goddess Venus emerging from the ocean as she did in the time of ancient Greece so she can complete her godly duties... to wire transatlantic telegram cables. Behind her and Neptune's mighty horsemen, you can see a smoke-stacked industrial factory.

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* AnachronismStew: The "Marine" scene has the Roman goddess Venus emerging from the ocean as she did in the time of ancient Greece so she can complete her godly duties... to wire transatlantic telegram cables. Behind her and Neptune's mighty horsemen, you can see a smoke-stacked industrial factory.ironclad warship.
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* UltimateBlacksmith: Keeping in tradition with Vulcan's role as the Blacksmith God, ''The Apotheosis'' paints him leaning his hammer on an anvil while standing on top of canon serves to represent the pride of American mechanics.

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* UltimateBlacksmith: Keeping in tradition with Vulcan's role as the Blacksmith God, ''The Apotheosis'' paints him leaning his hammer on an anvil while standing on top of canon a cannon serves to represent the pride of American mechanics.
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An 1865 fresco depicting President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington ascending to godhood. The fresco is painted onto the outer dome of the United States Capitol in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and only mostly visible from the Capitol Rotunda through the oculus of the inner dome.

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An 1865 fresco depicting President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington ascending to godhood. The fresco is painted onto on the interior of a hollow hemisphere suspended inside the outer dome of the United States Capitol in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and only mostly visible from the Capitol Rotunda through the oculus of the inner dome.
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An 1865 fresco depicting President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington ascending to godhood.

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An 1865 fresco depicting President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington ascending to godhood.
godhood. The fresco is painted onto the outer dome of the United States Capitol in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, and only mostly visible from the Capitol Rotunda through the oculus of the inner dome.



If this seems like it fits better in the Art/SistineChapel than the Capitol Building, that may be because it was made by UsefulNotes/ThePope's painter. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian immigrant who spent three years working in the Vatican before coming to America to escape political turmoil and turning the Capitol into a church for America's civic religion. With his expertise in religious art, Brumidi communicated the ideals of UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates through the TropesOfTheDivine.

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If this seems like it fits better in the Art/SistineChapel than the Capitol Building, Capitol, that may be because it was made by UsefulNotes/ThePope's painter. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian immigrant who spent three years working in the Vatican before coming to America to escape political turmoil and turning the Capitol into a church for America's civic religion. With his expertise in religious art, Brumidi communicated the ideals of UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates through the TropesOfTheDivine.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The soldiers Freedom battles are seen holding torches facing the direction of a small child who recoils away. While it seems like Freedom will stop them, the implication is that they are fully willing to burn a child alive if Freedom wasn't there to restrain them.

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* WouldHurtAChild: The soldiers Freedom battles are seen holding torches facing the direction of a small child who recoils away. While it seems like Freedom will stop them, the implication is that they are fully willing to burn a child alive if Freedom wasn't there to restrain them.them.
* TheXOfY: The title explains what's going on, the AbstractApotheosis of President Washington into some abstract representation of America.
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* PurpleIsPowerful: As a sign of his Election, the Celestial-in-Chief is draped in a purple tunic he wears over his general's uniform.

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* PurpleIsPowerful: As a sign of his Election, the Celestial-in-Chief is draped in a purple tunic he wears over his general's uniform.uniform (this was done with the Roman emperors).
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* ScienceIsGood: Science is divinized in this painting. Represented by mighty Minerva, it is presented as a collaborative effort by curious children, hard-working scribes, and wise statesmen to make America greater with their ever-greater machinery. Minerva even stands right next to a rainbows to further science's purity and goodness.
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: "Apotheosis" refers to the process of becoming a god, which is how Washington got his seat next to Liberty and Victory.

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* GodLivesInTheSky: The fresco presents [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington the first President]] and [[Art/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] as gods looming above the residents of the U.S. Capitol building to remind senators that George is watching--from beyond.


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* HeavenAbove: The fresco presents [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington the first President]] and [[Art/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] as gods looming above the residents of the U.S. Capitol building to remind senators that George is watching--from beyond.
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* GodLivesInTheSky: The fresco presents [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington the first President]] and [[Art/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] as gods looming above the residents of the U.S. Capitol building. I don't mean that there's an image of the Capitol building in the painting, no, it sits on the ceiling of the real-life Capitol Building to remind senators that George is watching--from beyond.

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* GodLivesInTheSky: The fresco presents [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington the first President]] and [[Art/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] as gods looming above the residents of the U.S. Capitol building. I don't mean that there's an image of the Capitol building in the painting, no, it sits on the ceiling of the real-life Capitol Building to remind senators that George is watching--from beyond.
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* GodLivesInTheSky: The fresco presents [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington the first President]] and [[Art/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] as gods looming above the residents of the U.S. Capitol building. I don't mean that there's an image of the Capitol building in the painting, no, it sits on the ceiling of the real-life Capitol Building to remind senators that George is watching--from beyond.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Freedom's Eagle shows the tyrants who's side Heaven is on by shooting lightning from the arrows he's carrying right at them.

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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Freedom's Eagle shows the tyrants who's whose side Heaven is on by shooting lightning from the his arrows he's carrying right straight at them.'em.
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* AbstractApotheosis: Washington's ascension to godhood appear to involve him becoming some type of abstract representation of America.

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The focus of the painting is on two circles. In the first inner circle, George Washington sits at the bottom robed in purple with [[UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] and Lady Victory at his sides. The rest of the circle is taken up by thirteen girls each representing one of the thirteen original states. The second, outer circle is below the clouds and is made up of six scenes each detailing an American lifestyle: War, Commerce, Science, Mechanics, Marine, and Agriculture.

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The focus of the painting is on two circles. In the first inner circle, George Washington sits at the bottom robed in purple with [[UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty [[Art/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] and Lady Victory at his sides. The rest of the circle is taken up by thirteen girls each representing one of the thirteen original states. The second, outer circle is below the clouds and is made up of six scenes each detailing an American lifestyle: War, Commerce, Science, Mechanics, Marine, and Agriculture.
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* EvilIsBurningHot: The only sinister characters in the image are the tyrant king and his followers, who stick out because a few of them are seen with torches trying to burn down [[{{Arcadia}} Ceres's agricultural utopia]] with their hellish fires.

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* EvilIsBurningHot: The only sinister characters in the image are the tyrant king and his followers, who stick out because a few of them are seen with torches trying to burn down [[{{Arcadia}} Ceres's agricultural utopia]] utopia]]. In case the evil wasn't clear enough, the fire isn't light-bearing so much as smoke-spewing, covering [[DarkIsEvil the tyrants with their hellish fires.smoke and shadow]].



* WarGod: Freedom is a fierce warrior who fights armored kings with her mighty eagle, flag-themed shield, and skyward golden sword. Fittingly, she sits directly under General Washington's seat in the clouds.

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* WarGod: Freedom is a fierce warrior who fights armored kings with her mighty eagle, flag-themed shield, and skyward golden sword. Fittingly, she sits directly under General Washington's seat in the clouds.clouds.
* WouldHurtAChild: The soldiers Freedom battles are seen holding torches facing the direction of a small child who recoils away. While it seems like Freedom will stop them, the implication is that they are fully willing to burn a child alive if Freedom wasn't there to restrain them.
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* EvilIsBurningHot: The only sinister characters in the image are the tyrant king and his followers, who stick out because a few of them are seen with torches trying to burn down [[{{Arcadia}} Ceres's agricultural utopia]].

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* EvilIsBurningHot: The only sinister characters in the image are the tyrant king and his followers, who stick out because a few of them are seen with torches trying to burn down [[{{Arcadia}} Ceres's agricultural utopia]].utopia]] with their hellish fires.
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* {{Arcadia}}: The bottom-right scene shows a peaceful goddess holding a basket of fruit while beautiful maidens and men pick fruit and tame horses, all to represent America's agricultural prosperity.

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* {{Arcadia}}: AnachronismStew: The bottom-right "Marine" scene shows a peaceful has the Roman goddess holding a basket Venus emerging from the ocean as she did in the time of fruit while beautiful maidens ancient Greece so she can complete her godly duties... to wire transatlantic telegram cables. Behind her and men pick fruit and tame horses, all to represent America's agricultural prosperity.Neptune's mighty horsemen, you can see a smoke-stacked industrial factory.



** The thirteen maidens with stars above their heads represent the first United States, which is why they hold up the nation's motto "E pluribus unum."



* {{Arcadia}}: The bottom-right scene shows a peaceful goddess holding a basket of fruit while beautiful maidens and men pick fruit and tame horses, all to represent America's agricultural prosperity.
* ArmorIsUseless: The tyrant king is easily knocked over and stomped on despite wearing full-body metal armor. His opponent, Lady Freedom, is wearing a liberating dress and cape that shouldn't protect her, but she conquers her opponent despite this apparent flaw.



* BoltOfDivineRetribution: You can tell the tyrants Freedom and her eagle are attacking deserve it because a lightning bolt from the heavens is crackling right by them, showing providence wants them to be punished for the sinners they are.

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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: You can tell Freedom's Eagle shows the tyrants Freedom and her eagle are attacking deserve it because a who's side Heaven is on by shooting lightning bolt from the heavens is crackling arrows he's carrying right by them, showing providence wants them to be punished for the sinners they are.at them.



* FluffyCloudHeaven: Washington's holy abode has few distinguishable features besides being covered in clouds and having some large source of light being covered by them.



* MagicSkirt:
** Mercury is almost entirely nude and is entirely unbothered by it. Robes just happen to cover his groin and nothing else while he doesn't seem to notice that he's naked without it.
** Venus is wholly nude except for a robe that isn't so much on her as blowing past her. Conveniently, the robe in the wind covers her gonads while censoring nothing else.



* OurGodsAreDifferent: Apparently, really good Presidents become gods when they die. They also seem to have a higher place in this cosmology than even the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman gods]].

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* OurGodsAreDifferent: Apparently, really good Presidents become gods when they die. They also seem to have a higher place in this cosmology than {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s or even the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman Greek gods]].


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* SeahorseSteed: Neptune rides two horses while navigating the seas that are just like normal horses, but with fins in the place of their hooves.
* TheSmartGuy: Minerva serves as the representative of Science among the gods and pensively points to and observes an electric generator while students and scholars observe her and write notes.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Keeping in tradition with Vulcan's role as the Blacksmith God, ''The Apotheosis'' paints him leaning his hammer on an anvil while standing on top of canon serves to represent the pride of American mechanics.
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* {{Acadia}}: The bottom-right scene shows a peaceful goddess holding a basket of fruit while beautiful maidens and men pick fruit and tame horses, all to represent America's agricultural prosperity.

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* {{Acadia}}: The bottom-right scene shows a peaceful goddess holding a basket of fruit while beautiful maidens and men pick fruit and tame horses, all to represent America's agricultural prosperity.
* AnthropomorphicPersonification:
** The two ladies to Washington's side represent virtues. The one on his left represents Victory (demonstrated by her war trumpet and Olympic wreaths) and Liberty (demonstrated her tomb open to all and Roman cap of freedom).
** The scene of War has a female representation of Freedom in the place of a Greek god. This Freedom is a warrior who fights tyrannies with her mighty eagle and American shield.



* CapitalismIsBad: InvertedTrope; in keeping with its patriotic nature, ''The Apotheosis'' upholds America's economic ideals of free market capitalism by depicting the lively Mercury leading healthy craftsmen, wise scholars, and youthful sailors with his bag of gold in hand.



* PurpleIsPowerful: As a sign of his Election, the Celestial-in-Chief is draped in a purple tunic he wears over his general's uniform.

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* PurpleIsPowerful: As a sign of his Election, the Celestial-in-Chief is draped in a purple tunic he wears over his general's uniform.uniform.
* WarGod: Freedom is a fierce warrior who fights armored kings with her mighty eagle, flag-themed shield, and skyward golden sword. Fittingly, she sits directly under General Washington's seat in the clouds.

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* ProngsOfPoseidon: The Marine element of America is represented in the top-left of the fresco by Poseidon holding his trident high and right towards the center of the Heavens.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: You can tell the tyrants Freedom and her eagle are attacking deserve it because a lightning bolt from the heavens is crackling right by them, showing providence wants them to be punished for the sinners they are.



* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: An ExaggeratedTrope of President 'Nice Guy'; the President is put on a pedestal that it sits right next to {{God}}'s throne.

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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: An ExaggeratedTrope of President 'Nice Guy'; the President is put on a pedestal that it sits right next to {{God}}'s throne.throne.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Lady Freedom is set apart from the beige-brown brutes of tyranny by her red cape, blue tunic, and yellow dress that complement her patriotic red, white, and blue shield.
* PurpleIsPowerful: As a sign of his Election, the Celestial-in-Chief is draped in a purple tunic he wears over his general's uniform.
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An 1865 fresco depicting President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington ascending to godhood.

The focus of the painting is on two circles. In the first inner circle, George Washington sits at the bottom robed in purple with [[UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty Lady Liberty]] and Lady Victory at his sides. The rest of the circle is taken up by thirteen girls each representing one of the thirteen original states. The second, outer circle is below the clouds and is made up of six scenes each detailing an American lifestyle: War, Commerce, Science, Mechanics, Marine, and Agriculture.

If this seems like it fits better in the Art/SistineChapel than the Capitol Building, that may be because it was made by UsefulNotes/ThePope's painter. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian immigrant who spent three years working in the Vatican before coming to America to escape political turmoil and turning the Capitol into a church for America's civic religion. With his expertise in religious art, Brumidi communicated the ideals of UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates through the TropesOfTheDivine.

!!''The Apotheosis of Washington'' provides examples of:
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: "Apotheosis" refers to the process of becoming a god, which is how Washington got his seat next to Liberty and Victory.
* {{Eagleland}}: Type 1; America, represented by Washington, has risen to the ranks of the divine, and even risen above the Greek gods by perfecting each of their specialties while also being protected by the great warrior of Freedom.
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: One of the many signs of the President's divinity is the beautiful rainbow that flies right behind his feet.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: The palette of the sky here is divided yellow-ish clouds in the center and the outer white clouds which the states and the ladies sit on.
* NobleBirdOfPrey: A fierce eagle accompanies Freedom and assists her in deposing the regal Tyranny.
* OurGodsAreDifferent: Apparently, really good Presidents become gods when they die. They also seem to have a higher place in this cosmology than even the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman gods]].
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: An ExaggeratedTrope of President 'Nice Guy'; the President is put on a pedestal that it sits right next to {{God}}'s throne.

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