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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1989)
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[ We will make you irresistable tothe opposite sex! l (Just short of plastic surgery.) k - Dmta warnm ■ Looking down the great hall of the State Capitol Design detsllsofblson, coni «ndHrds on the gr**e of the balcony. i i . . Capitol's artwork histone By Gretchen Boehr Senior Reporter__ 1 Murals, mosaics and inscrip- < tions inside the Nebraska State ] Capitol tell stories about democ racy, early settlers and nature, said Bob Ripley, manager of capitol restoration and promotion. "What makes the capitol so sig nificant is that it reads luce a book,” he said. "Everything represents native plant or animal life or the evolution of democracy.” Ripley said one chapter begins at the front entrance with inscrip tions about a government’s re sponsibility to its people. Throughout the capitol, inscrip tions snake their way around the tops of stone walls. Some of these are qdbles by Aristotle, early presi dents, Indian ritual songs or Hartley Burr Alexander. . , Alexander was the thematic consultant for the capitol and worked closely with the architect, Ripley said. Alexander's depiction of early democracy includes Moses and die Ten Commandments, which repre sent early Christian law. Most or the ait work was chosen by the archi tect and Alexander. Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Alexander specified the theme and told sculptors and mosaidsts what to create. The capitol took 10 , yean to build, Ripley said. Ripley said 12 murals and about ’ 20 busts nave been added since the capitol’s completion. These pieces weren’t specified by Goodhue or Alexander but fit the capitol’s theme, he said. "Ihe addition of the murals fol lowed the original program,” he said, "to keep the book as a whcAe.” The murals and some of the busts are displayed in die rotunda aiea. A chandelier in the north en trance vestibule represents the sun. The chandelier is a round globe of light bulbs with arrows separating each sixth bulb in the outer ring, Ripley said. “Bracketing each arrow is a cius er of wheat and corn.” The foyer chandelier is deco ded with ears of com with a bison lead at the bottom of each ear. The three mosaics in the foyer represent gifts of nature to people, rhese gifts are earth, plant life and tnimal life, he said. The chandelier in the rotunda chamber includes the 12 signs of the zodiac. “The theme of the rotunda is the whole universe - the concept of the universe in a world sense," Ripley said. ' “It refers to heavens and various symbols within nature.” The center piece in the rotunda is a floor mosaic of Mother Nature flanked by the four natural ele ments - earth, wind, fire and wa ter. In the rotunda dome, a ceiling mosaic contains eight angel-like figures depicting the eight guiding virtues of noble living. Ripley said the two legislative chambers on the east and west of the main rotunda are symbolic of two civilizations which occupied early Nebraska. Tne east represents Plains Indi ans and the west represents pio neers. “The west chamber represents the multitude of races which have inhabited Nebraska since the lime of the Indian," Ripley said. The theme of tne east chamber begins with hand-caived Indian doors. The chamber also displays a woven tapestry of 10 nomadic tribes who lived in and around Nebraska, Ripley said, r The four aspects of Indian life - village, hunting party, war party and peace council - are repre sented in a ornamental tile dome. In the west chamber, hand tooled leather doors symbolize pioneer craftsmanship, Ripley said. The sold leaf on the ceiling’s walnut beams depicts Nebraska’s early settlement. Ripley said the busts are dis See AIT on 11