Rome of the West

This image of the statue of Thomas Jefferson, at the Missouri History Museum in Saint Louis, is a proof-of-concept test of generating very large images from multiple photographs. This image is a mosaic of 38 hand-held photos: the final image is nearly 400 times larger in area than what is displayed here.

Jefferson (1743–1826) was the 3^rd President of the United States, and the philosophy of Jeffersonian Democracy, idealizing the republican virtues of the yeoman farmer, remains vibrant in American political thinking today. He was very much a man of the Enlightenment, often contradictory, and is both inspiring and highly problematic for American Catholics.