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Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

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"Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in his Virginia residences, in order to establish Rome as an ancestor to America. In a time of significant political and cultural change, he aligned himself with a Greco-Romano legacy that represented knowledge, power and art. Alley Marie Jordan studies the architectural and landscape spaces of Jefferson's classical taste, which include the villas of Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as the University of Virginia"--

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juillet 2025, env. 224 pages, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception, Anglais
Bloomsbury
978-1-350-42850-8

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