Lee thus joined a small, subversive chapter of black Atlanta leaders who for decades had sought to tell a fuller Cyclorama story. The painting, created in 1886 and originally intended for white ...

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 2 ...

Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, worked even harder to wrench the Cyclorama away from the Old South. When Jackson was elected in 1974, the painting had fallen into disrepair.

A worker puts some final touches on the diorama that is part of the Atlanta Cyclorama display at the Atlanta History Center on Friday, Feb 15, 2019, in Atlanta. Ron Harris / AP.

RELATED: Photos: The Cyclorama, Battle of Atlanta Civil War landmark. It is the latest chapter in the story of a masterpiece of disposable art that has improbably survived for more than 130 years.

The Cyclorama’s first address in Atlanta was a round, wooden building assembled specifically for the painting at Edgewood and Piedmont avenues, near today’s Georgia State University campus.

By 2014, the Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum was feeling its age and attendance was mostly in decline. Zoo Atlanta, which sits next door to the Cyclorama in the city’s Grant Park ...

It is no easy task to relocate a 12,000-pound painting. The “Battle of Atlanta” cyclorama was carefully rolled onto two steel spools and lifted by crane out of its longtime home in Atlanta’s ...

The Atlanta Cyclorama, the colossal Civil War painting created about 130 years ago, is leaving the building it has occupied since 1921 to move across town.

At the old Atlanta Cyclorama building, the Texas on Monday was lifted by crane for its 285-mile journey to Spencer, North Carolina. The engine and tender will begin their journey early Tuesday ...

Mayor Kasim Reed, Atlanta History Center President and CEO Sheffield Hale and Zoo Atlanta President and CEO Raymond King announced Wednesday the existing Cyclorama building will be developed into ...

It took several years to create architectural plans, build the special round addition at the Atlanta History Center to house the 133-year-old cyclorama and move the five-ton painting from its ...