Word: philippoteaux
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...cyclorama on the following pages, representing the climax of Pickett's charge, is housed in a special building at the Gettysburg battlefield. Painted in 1881 by French Artist Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, it is 30 ft. high and 370 ft. in circumference. The view is from behind the Union front line, and as the viewer looks along the painting toward the right, it is as though he is turning from north to east, then toward the south and finally west...
TIME used the word "canvas" in the sense of a decorative work of fine art. Cycloramas (spectacle pictures stretched circularly so that the spectator is surrounded by the scene) are far larger than Rockwell Kent's 6,400 sq. ft. ceiling at Dennis, Mass. Paul Philippoteaux, painter of the Holy Land cyclorama, was most famed for his cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg...
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