Grant (DeVolson) Wood was an american painter who was best known for painting the rural American Midwest. Wood was inspired to create the American Gothic because, he quoted, "The kind of people I fancied should live in that house". He once saw 'The Dibble House' John Sharp's brother suggested in 1937 that on the drive, he sketched the home in a back of a envelope.
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The carvings found spiraling the column depict the events of the Dacian Wars, which are incredibly accurate according to scholars. The carving and the gilded statue of the emperor on top serve to document the past, as a history book does, and also to commemorate a great time in Roman History.
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