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Example of the early plain style on this tombstone carved by George Griswold dated 1675. Hartford Ancient Burying Ground. The earliest known New England stonecutters were George Griswold and his uncle Matthew, who settled in Windsor, Connecticut around 1640. Matthew carved the oldest known grave marker in the New World, a table monument made of ...
The subject of "A fair Puritan" wearing typical subdued "sadd" colors. Sadd colors or sad colors were the colors of choice for the clothing of the members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in seventeenth century America ("sadd"/ "sad" carried the meaning of "seriousness" rather than "sorrowfulness").
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
The Puritans were originally members of a group of English Protestants seeking "purity", further reforms or even separation from the established church, during the Reformation.
The winter scene depicts the 17th-century Puritan settlers of New England, later identified specifically as the Pilgrim Fathers, as a small armed group of somberly clad, God-fearing souls making their way from right to left through a snowy, recently cleared wood to a house of worship (a small building visible in the left background).
There was no Puritan view against beauty in the arts, and therefore no objection to visual fineries; however, the pragmatism intrinsic to the Puritan mindset limited the amount of art produced in the Americas. [1] The practical activities of life generally outweighed any sort of extravagance in the Puritan community.
Smith is believed to be the same Thomas Smith who was commissioned by Harvard College on 2 June 1680 to produce a portrait of the Puritan theologian William Ames. [3] Because several Thomas Smiths were active in Boston in the late seventeenth century, it is very difficult to identify other contemporary references to persons of that name with ...
"Modern Plain Style" (1900–2001): Ignorance; Article now says "Of these [six categorizations], the first three are strictly "puritan", before the style softened as Unitarianism and Methodism became more popular.[23]" - but this is muddy still, its proving difficult to delineate the scope for the page.