The colossal 19th-century painting of the Battle of Atlanta has been hailed as a tribute to both the North and South, and its complicated history will be a focus in its new home at the Atlanta History ...
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says the massive Atlanta Cyclorama painting, which has been on display in Grant Park for the past century, will be moved to the Atlanta History Center in the ...
ATLANTA (FOX 5 Atlanta) - It’s a true icon of Atlanta, and a relic from the days before motion pictures and television dominated entertainment. And now, after years of planning and meticulous work, ...
Picking up a fragile, 6-ton painting that’s longer than a football field is a bit like stretching a tent made out of tissue paper: It takes the skills of a museum conservator and the engineering ...
ATLANTA — An Atlanta historian said it was the coolest and scariest thing he has ever seen as cranes hoisted the Atlanta Cyclorama out of its current home and as they prepare to move it to its new ...
Atlanta’s Cyclorama, a giant painting in the round, opens Feb. 22, 2019 in the brand-new Lloyd and Mary Ann Whitaker Cyclorama Building, a 25,000-square-foot rotunda on the Atlanta History Center ...
ATLANTA — At a time when counties, cities and states across the South are removing or covering up Confederate monuments, one of the world's largest paintings of the American Civil War will reopen to ...
The first time Calinda Lee saw the “Battle of Atlanta” Cyclorama, she rolled her eyes in disbelief. The colossal 133-year-old panoramic painting of the Civil War battle featured thousands of human ...
Every city in the South, it seems, is trying to figure out what to do with its monuments. Richmond has kept its grand “Monument Avenue” lined with statues of Confederate luminaries. New Orleans took ...