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•Virginia Capitol Building
•Richmond Virginia
•Thomas Jefferson
•1790
•Jefferson felt young nation’s architecture should be based on antiquity
•Literally copied the Mansion Carree, a roman temple.
•Rome represented Jefferson’s cultural and political patrimony
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•Monticello
•Thomas Jefferson, 1810
•Charlottesville, Virginia
•Ushered in new thinking in realm of domestic architecture.
•Departed from colonial habit of locating a manor house on the edge of a river, instead placing home on top of a hill in order to see the mountains.
•Wanted to avoid any imitation of the British Monarchy.
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Plan for Washington D.C.
Pierre Charles L’Enfant 1790
Modeled on the radiating avenues of Versailles
Represented the clash of the Republicans and Federalist.
Dubbed the city of Magnificent distances.
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•United States Capitol Building
•Charles Bulfinch, 1800
•Washington D.C.
•Dome represents sky, also the center of the building.
•Based of antiquity
•Still has local influences including references to tobacco leaves and corn stalks.
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•The Landing of the Pilgrims
•Enrico Causici, 1820
•Crouching Indians represent superiority of Europeans
•Pilgrims accept corn from the native Americans
•Based on novels, poems, historical accounts.
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•The Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians
•Enrico Causici, 1820
•Daniel Boone brings out true savageness of Indians
•Conveys “Ferocity and recklessness of the natives”
•Sat more easily with visitors to D.C. than Indians represented as equals
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