The Blue Room
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
Amerigo Vespucci
- Artist
- Giuseppe Ceracchi
- Date of Work
- modeled ca. 1790-94, carved ca.1815
- Medium
- marble
- Type
- Sculpture
- Credit
- White House Collection/White House Historical Association
Amerigo Vespucci
This marble bust of explorer Amerigo Vespucci is by Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi. Ceracchi sculpted many notable Americans, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. This bust was acquired along with busts of Christopher Columbus and President Washington by the Monroe Administration in 1817.
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