Word: architecturee
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In architecture, the style was set going by Jefferson, the father of American architectural thought (as distinct from mere building). His particular inspiration was one structure, a Roman temple known as the Maison Carree at Nimes in the south of France. All the architectural work he had admired during his...
The Virginia state capitol became the model of federal official architecture -- the first pure temple-form public building of the neoclassical movement in the U.S. and Europe, predating French equivalents like the Madeleine in Paris by two decades. In a way, its radicality has been veiled by its success. Before...
Bulfinch set out to produce a building that declared "openness." The classical portico of the Massachusetts state house invites the citizen in, offering him rights of access to an assembly rather than treating him as a member of a colonized mob. It leads him to the chambers inside, where power...
Is the idealist line as clear in early republican painting? Not quite, for artists took longer to develop their gifts, and painting, in any case, never seemed as good a political instrument to the Founding Fathers as architecture. Benjamin West (1738-1820), born in Springfield, Pa., to Quaker parents, was...
Neither Peale nor any other American painter of the late 18th century except Copley produced a masterpiece within his own field comparable to the architecture of Jefferson or to the legal and moral qualities of the Constitution. But by 1800 an answer to the haunting question posed by Michel- Guillaume...