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NEOCLASSIC---(1776-1865)
ADELSON
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
05/01/2016

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  • *T. Jefferson, Virginia State Capitol, 1785-89 (Richmond, VA)
  • Classical, Palladio via French
  • Roman Captial 
  • The Virginia State Capitol was Jefferson’s declaration of independence from British architecture.
  • Maison Carree  in Nimes, France (formerly Gaul)
  • ionic coloums 
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  • Colonnade ties mall bldgs together
  • T. Jefferson, University of Virginia, 1817-25
  • Library focal point (renaissance ideals, knowledge is central)
  • Pantheon (the most influential building in art history)—in Rome. When F.L.
  • Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum, he called it “my Pantheon.”
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  • T. Jefferson, Monticello, 1769-84; 1796-1809
  • In 1769, Jefferson began building his house on the plantation that he inherited from his father
  • He transformed the original eight room Palladian villa, with its tall two-story portico, into a 21-room house designed in the fashionable Neoclassical style he saw in France.
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  • C. Bulfinch, Massachusetts State House, 1795-98
  • precedent was Somerset House.  Plan reflects bicameral legislature, classical architecture is used to represent democracy.
  • dome made of wood later to be covered with copper
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J. Hoban and B. H. Latrobe, The White House, c. 1795 (Washington, DC)

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  • T.U. Walter, US Capitol, 1851-1865
  •  The Senate therefore voted to hold another competition, offering a prize of $500 for the best plan to extend the Capitol. Fillmore's choice was Thomas U. Walter,
  • Over the next 14 years, Walter supervised the construction of the extensions, ensuring their compatibility with the architectural style of the existing building. 
  • Numerous architects—Dr. W. Thornton/B.H.Latrobe/C. Bulfinch--worked on the various stages of the US Capitol since 1793.  The building has evolved into the one that we now have. It was Walter who gave it its present character.]
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  • W. Strickland, Second Bank of the US, 1818-24 (this is the building we saw in Philadelphia). Parthenon—in Athens  (Pantheon is circular; Parthenon is rectangular).  

  • The Second Bank, modeled on the Greek Parthenon, was one of the first Greek Revival buildings in the United States, and led to other commissions.

  • doric coloums 

  • 8 is a signific number, number of coloums. 

  • greek revivial 

  • Cast iron window sills incorporate individual wood stoves for localized heating

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  • *H. Bacon, Lincoln Memorial, 1922 (Washington, DC)
  • neoclassic 
  • There are 36 columns, each one representing one state in the U.S. at the date of President Lincoln’s death. The Memorial itself is 190 feet long and 119 feet wide, and reaches a height of almost 100 feet.
  • doric coloums
  • Climb the stairs leading to the interior, and look up. There, etched into the wall, is a memorable quote: "In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever."
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