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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Cyclorama
		"Cyclorama" is the name given to the huge, century-old painting depicting the Civil War battle fought July 22, 1864, east of Atlanta.
		It is one of only two cycloramas in the United States, and at 42 feet tall and 358 feet in circumference, it is the largest painting in the country.
		Frenchman Paul Philippoteaux supervised the painting of a cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, which came to this country in 1884 and remains a prominent attraction at the Gettysburg National Military Park.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-825 (1245 words)

	Atlanta Cyclorama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Atlanta Cyclorama is a circular panoramic painting of the Battle of Atlanta.
		The cyclorama is housed in a museum, also called the "Atlanta Cyclorama" in Grant Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
		The cyclorama painting itself is augmented by a three-dimensional diorama in front of the painting and a narration of the events of the battle and the history of the painting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlanta_Cyclorama (451 words)

	Cyclorama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cyclorama is a cylindrical painting designed to provide a viewer, standing in the middle of the cylinder, with a 360° view of the painting.
		Cycloramas were first invented by Irishman Robert Barker who wanted to find a way capture the panoramic view from a hill near Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Waterloo Cyclorama, depicting the Battle of Waterloo is displayed in Belgium near the city of Waterloo
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyclorama (301 words)

	The UnMuseum - Virtual Cyclorama
		The "Cyclorama of Jerusalem," which was finished in 1895 and depicts the crucifixion of Christ, is still operating near Quebec, Canada.
		Cycloramas were often very large in size (the Cyclorama of Jerusalem is 46 feet high and 361 feet in circumference) and would be observed from the center on a raised platform.
		The virtual cyclorama consists of a frame through which you can observe a 360 degree panoramic image by using your mouse to drag the image left or right and up or down as if you were turning your head at a real cyclorama.
	www.unmuseum.org /cyclar.htm (630 words)

	The Gettysburg Cyclorama
		The Gettysburg National Military Park Cyclorama Center is the home of the "Battle of Gettysburg" Cyclorama, a 360 degree circular oil-on-canvas painting that depicts "Pickett's Charge," the climactic Confederate attack on the Union center on July 3, 1863.
		Cycloramas were a very popular form of entertainment in the late 1800's, both in America and Europe.
		The "Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg" opened to the public in Chicago in 1883, complete with a three-dimensional earthen foreground littered with the relics of battle, stone walls, shattered trees and broken fences.
	www.nps.gov /gett/gettcyclo.htm (1057 words)

	The Cyclorama, Atlanta, Georgia
		Today, the Atlanta Cyclorama houses one of a few remaining examples in the world of an art form that was popular at the end of the 19th century, before moving pictures.
		A "cyclorama" was a show in a cylindrical room or building that featured a painting on the outer wall of the room and the patrons seated (or standing) in the center.
		Among the remaining cycloramas are the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the Cyclorama of Jerusalem in Ste.
	roadsidegeorgia.com /site/cyclorama.html (1340 words)

	The Cyclorama Building Home Page-Historic Canada/U.S. Border Landmark
		Of the many cycloramas which, during the last five years, have been viewed by the Chicago public, there has been no other that approached this one in the particulars of sublimity and fineness of treatment.
		This glowing review of the cyclorama was a tremendous boost for Buffalo and it showed that the city had a cultural side to its very industrial image.
		The "Crucifixion" is in the Shrine of Ste.
	www.grasmick.com /ourhome.htm (4481 words)

	NHL Cyclorama Part I
		The enormous cylindrical drum at the north terminus of the building is the primary focus of the exterior and the main component of the memorialization of Lincoln as envisioned by Neutra.
		The drum is composed of two parts: a continuous upper portion housing the Cyclorama painting and a base of smaller diameter, containing the exhibition area and punctuated by a sectioned, full-height window wall leading to the outdoor ceremonial area.
		The Cyclorama Building is one of seven Mission 66 visitor centers equipped with a fallout shelter as part of the "Federal Fixed Monitoring Network" within the Department of the Interior.
	www.recentpast.org /groups/cyclorama/nhl1.html (6630 words)

	Cyclorama
		The Gettysburg Cyclorama ia a colossial panoramic painting of "POickett's Charge,the climax of the battle on July 3rd 1863.Completed in 1884, the painting is one of the few cycloramas left in the world today.
		He was associated with his father in the production of the cyclorama of the "Siege of Paris," originally exhibited in Paris, and in 1883 he produced "The Battle of Gettysburg," which was shown in Chicago, and was the first cy-clorama of the civil war that was made.
		In 1891 the cyclorama was moved to Philadelphia in exchange for another Philippoteaux cyclorama, "The Crucifixion of Christ".When the Gettysburg Cyclorama returned to Boston the owners crated and stored it in a empty lot behind the tremont street building.
	www.angelfire.com /pa4/gettysburg/cyclorama.html (1188 words)

	Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Atlanta \| Frommers.com
		Cycloramas were the rage of 18th- and 19th-century Europe, Russia, Japan, and later, the United States, depicting subject matter ranging from the splendors of Pompeii to Napoleonic battles.
		For 21st-century tourists, the concept and story of the Cyclorama are as interesting as the action depicted, and the restoration is incredibly impressive.
		Cyclorama's central theme is Gen. John B. Hood's desperate attempt to halt Sherman's inexorable advance into the city.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/atlanta/A21853.html (645 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Cyclorama, Cineorama, Mareorama, Myrioama
		The Cyclorama is arranged by ingenious mechanism around the entire inner surface of the circular edifice, its lower edge, however, not coming to within twenty-five feet of the ground floor, that space being filled, as before stated, by the promenade.
		The Gettysburg Cyclorama was ready to open to the public in Chicago in 1882, complete with a three-dimensional earthen foreground littered with the relics of battle, stone walls, shattered trees and broken fences.
		For that cyclorama he was introduced to General Hancock, from whom he gleaned accurate details of the fight; he went then to the battlefield in person, took sketches, consulted the official maps on file in the War Dept. in Washington" and returned to Paris to execute the Cyclorama.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/CYCLORAMA.html (4813 words)

	Cyclorama Restoration & Preservation Project 2003-2004
		The Gettysburg Cyclorama, the mammoth painting of Pickett's Charge by French artist Paul Dominique Phillippoteaux, is closed until January 2, 2004, for preliminary preservation treatment and evaluation.
		A major feature missing from the cyclorama is the sky, the upper portion of which was cut away prior to the move into its current home.
		The famous cyclorama in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the few surviving cycloramas with its foreground still intact.
	www.nps.gov /gett/gettprojects/cyclopres03.htm (1402 words)

	Laysan Island Cyclorama
		The construction of the Cyclorama was the first major test of Dill's new Museum Studies program, the nation's first program in museum artistry.
		intended the Cyclorama to be an urgent call to save the Island from destruction and it might have succeeded had not World War I intervened.
		With proper care the Laysan Island Cyclorama will continue to stand well into the century as a vivid and timeless ecological warning and a tribute to the valiant efforts of the University community to save one small corner of the planet.
	www.uiowa.edu /~nathist/Site/laysan-main.htm (420 words)

	Cyclorama Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Opened on the centennial of the Gettysburg Battle in 1963, the Cyclorama Center at Gettysburg was built as part of “Mission 66,” an ambitious postwar government initiative aimed at improving America’s national parks with the construction of new facilities and memorials by well-known architects.
		The Cyclorama Center has not been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, although it was “determined eligible” in 1998.
		The Cyclorama Center is slated for demolition under the National Park Service’s General Management Plan for the Gettysburg National Military Park.
	www.wmf.org /html/programs/resources/sitepages/united_states_cyclorama_center.html (417 words)

	The Boston Cyclorama
		A cyclorama is defined as a pictorial representation of the whole view from one point by an observer who in turning around looks successively to all points of the horizon.
		Five years later, a second cyclorama - The Battle of Gettysburg - was exhibited in the present Cyclorama building, a steel-framed, iron and brick fireproof structure built by the architectural firm of Cummings and Sears.
		The next cyclorama shown in the building opened on February 6, 1891, on the subject of "Jerusalem, The Holy City at the time of Christ." A Grand Oriental Museum was connected with this exhibition.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/CYCLORAMA_BOSTON.html (2960 words)

	Texas Restoration
		While protected in its new home in the Cyclorama Building, it was not until 1936 that action was taken to restore the engine to its character of the 1850's and 1860's.
		The Texas remained in the basement of the Cyclorama Building, a place where its preservation had been assured, yet a place which did not afford the viewer an opportunity to really see the old engine because of the lack of space.
		In 1979 with still no action taken to restore and preserve the Cyclorama painting and the Texas, legislation was introduced in the Georgia General Assembly to move both to the Stone Mountain Memorial Park a few miles east of Atlanta.
	www.andrewsraid.com /t_restore.html (566 words)

	Sports Temples of Boston: Boston Arena
		The Cyclorama was built in 1884 to house a huge, and life-like panoramic painting of the Battle of the Gettysburg.
		The Cyclorama, built on Tremont Street in Boston’s South End is a steel-framed, iron and brick structure designed by Cummings and Sears, a very successful and important Boston architectural firm.
		The Cyclorama was early used as a venue for a wide variety of sporting events such as the New England Roller Polo championship games held in 1893 and various exhibitions of military drill bands and rough riding.
	www.bpl.org /sportstemples/cyclorama_new.htm (326 words)

	Drawn! The Illustration Blog » Blog Archive » Cyclorama
		Since panoramas seem to be the today’s theme here at Drawn!, let’s take a look at cycloramas, which are cylindrical rooms with scenes painted on the walls giving the viewer a 360º view of the artwork and the illusion that they are standing in a famous place or in an historical setting.
		The world’s largest is the Cyclorama of Jerusalem in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Québec, which has been on display since 1895.
		Painted by French artist Paul Philippoteaux and a team of 20 in 1883-1884, the Cyclorama, entitled “The Battle of Gettysburg,”; is a colossal circular oil painting depicting the July 3, 1863, charge of Confederate infantry led by General George Pickett.
	drawn.ca /2005/06/24/cyclorama (335 words)

	Cyclorama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The light colored cyclorama curtains, known as Olios, can be drawn for presentations and discussions, like board meetings.
		All cyclorama curtains, at the very least, are used to mask on-stage rigging and lighting as well as for the purposes described above.
		A complex cyclorama consisting of Act, Olio, Intermediate, Rear and Side Curtains are typically accompanied by a series of border tabs that "fly" (
	www.commercialdrapes.com /html/cyclorama.html (305 words)

	Atlanta Cyclorama Visitors Guide â“ Cyclorama Features, Admission & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Atlanta Cyclorama stands 42 feet high and stretches across 358 feet and is considered to be the world's largest oil painting.
		Upon its completion in 1886, the Cyclorama was even taller and longer, but years of traveling and subsequent repairs took their toll on the piece.
		Apart from the Cyclorama, the focal point of the Civil War Museum is the locomotive Texas, a veteran of the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862.
	www.atlanta.net /visitors/cyclorama.asp (325 words)

	Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR): Cyclorama as a Tourist Attraction and Religious Shrine@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cyclorama as a Tourist Attraction and Religious Shrine
		There is a town in Quebec which is known as the Niagara Falls with an ecumenical twist because so many tourists come to see the Cyclorama, a seamless panoramic epic of what ancient Jerusalem was like.
		SCOTT SIMON, Host: There is a town in Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, just about half an hour northeast of Quebec City, that's been the site of pilgrimages since 1658, when the woman now called Saint Anne is believed to have rescued numerous sailors from a shipwreck.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28474736&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (235 words)

	Cyclorama Building
		One such idea was referred to as a "cyclorama" and it basically sought to bring places and events that the average person would never get to experience otherwise right into their hometown.
		It was hung in the Cyclorama Building, and the show opened on Saturday, September 6, 1888.
		In 1991, the Cyclorama Building was recognized as the historical building of the year.
	lucky.phpwebhosting.com /~ah/a/franklin/369 (939 words)

	Atlanta Cyclorama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George V. Gress, an Atlanta businessman, donated the Cyclorama to the City of Atlanta in 1898.
		It was in 1979 that the City of Atlanta decided to shut down the Cyclorama for a two-year period to repair the painting and update the museum and theater.
		A Cyclorama tour begins in the first floor auditorium with a short film that describes events leading up to the Battle of Atlanta.
	www.bcaatlanta.com /index.php?pid=81 (466 words)

	Styx Cyclorama DVD-A Review
		Having a hip band like The D on their album was a smart way to give a reason to kids, who might have only heard of Styx because their brothers played them on cassette in their Camaro in the ‘70s or ‘80s, to discover Styx for themselves now.
		Like Thornton’s appearance on Cyclorama, Tenacious D doesn’t have a big part on the record, but you can hear their signature “oooohs and ahhhhs” in the rear channels.
		On Cyclorama, the rears are used primarily for vocal harmony tracks.
	www.audiorevolution.com /music/revs/styx.shtml (1094 words)

	reCyclorama: The Campaign to Save Neutra's Cyclorama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Cyclorama Center will also close on November 20 and remain closed until April 2006, when it will reopen to the public and remain open through the spring and summer until mid-November, 2006, when it will close for the winter.
		A panoramic view of the battlefield landscape with the Cyclorama at the left and the now-demolished tower at the center.
		This week, at the 142nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, preservationists are renewing their call for the restoration of the Cyclorama Center, a premiere American modern building that overlooks the famous battlefield and commemorates Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
	www.mission66.com /cyclorama (580 words)

	Styx The Cyclorama Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With “Cyclorama” now on record store shelves, the members of Styx are poised to begin hearing a whole lot of opinions from the people who matter most - their fans.
		The dictionary defines cyclorama as a series of large pictures, as of a landscape, put on the wall of a circular room so as to appear in natural perspective to a spectator standing in the center.
		But cyclorama as he discovered it was related to a cylindrical building that has a 360-degree thing that was sort of the first virtual reality thing going back over a hundred years in the late 1800s and there were lots of these things built back then.
	www.classicrockrevisited.com /interviews03/STYXtheCycloramaInterviews.htm (6353 words)

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