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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.
The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States.
During the nineteenth century, professional judges gradually replaced volunteer magistrates as the primary adjudicating authority to decide court cases. [6] Counties gradually grew smaller as western areas were settled with lower population density, but residents still expected to access county services within a reasonable travel distance, and fewer business people and plantation owners had ...
The legacies of Neoclassicism and Romanticism continue to resonate in modern art, with artists drawing inspiration from both the rationality of the past and the emotional depths of human experience. The 1800s in Art witnessed the rise of various other movements, each contributing to the diversity and richness of artistic expression during this ...
Powers and his autograph, c. 1863 The Greek Slave Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor.He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave.
Irving Fisher (February 27, 1867 – April 29, 1947) [1] was an American economist, statistician, inventor, eugenicist and progressive social campaigner. He was one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation has been embraced by the post-Keynesian school. [2]
Neoclassical architecture in Washington, D.C. (4 C, 69 P) Pages in category "Neoclassical architecture in the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.