American Renaissance Murals
The image of a 1903 mural created for a US courthouse, is typical of an American Renaissance mural because it has a sense of a unified national identity. Also, the mural has various examples of Renaissance ideals of art. Some specifics being the columns on either side of the woman on a throne. The mural also shows the architecture (throne, columns, steps) as white. This is similar to many American Renaissance murals, to imitate the White City in Chicago. I believe that the woman in the very center of the mural is an allegory of liberty, due to the red cap. Also, because this mural is set in a courthouse and liberty can be defined as a state of being free. I believe the woman to the left of the