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In American architecture, Neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca. 1890–1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its final large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the ...
Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) [1] was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.. Rather than create a new furniture style, he interpreted fashionable European trends in a manner so distinguished and particular that he became a major spokesman for Neoclassicism in the United States, influencing a generation of American cabinetmakers.
Neoclassical liberalism (alternatively spelled neo-classical liberalism [a] or known as new classical liberalism [b]) is a tradition of the liberal thought that, with the premises of John Locke's classical liberalism applied to industrialized societies, stands in opposition to the welfare state and social liberalism. [1]: 124–125 [2]: 596
French explorations and settlements in North America, and those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes, 1500-1700.--V. The English and French in North America, 1689-1763.--VI-VII. The United States of North America [1763-1850].--VIII. The later history of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America Sloan candidate Subjects: Early maps; Cartography
Fountain of the Four Rivers, Bernini, 1651. Classicist door in Olomouc, The Czech Republic.. Classicism is a specific genre of philosophy, expressing itself in literature, architecture, art, and music, which has Ancient Greek and Roman sources and an emphasis on society.
Neoclassical architecture in the United States Further information: Neoclassical architecture See also: Category: Classical Revival architecture in the United States
Jefferson's sketch plan for the Rotunda at the University of Virginia The Rotunda in 2006. Jeffersonian architecture is an American form of Neo-Classicism and/or Neo-Palladianism embodied in the architectural designs of U.S. President and polymath Thomas Jefferson, after whom it is named.
H. Honour, Neoclassicism (1968) E. M. Butler, The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935) Walter Pater, 'Winckelmann', in Westminster Review (1867 January) (repr. in W. Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877)) J. W. von Goethe, Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert (1805)