1. American Neo-Classicism

2. Agenda
• Architecture
• Sculpture
• Painting and Symbols

3. Architecture
Charles Bulfinch, Drawing For Tontine Crescent, Boston, 1793

4. Architectural Terms
•Cornice is the set of crowning moldings
that cap an entablature in Classical
architecture.
•The Doric order is characterized by the
series of triglyphs and metopes on the
entablature.
•Each metope was occupied by a panel of
relief sculpture.
•Architrave:The word is derived from the
Greek word for main beam.
•Capital: The topmost element of the
column, helps to transfer loads from
beams to columns.
•Shaft: The long round section of a
column between the base and the capital.
triglyph
metope
capital
architrave
shaft
cornice
flute
This and the next slide were created by Ann Wesley, University of Vermont.

5. Architectural Influences
(Select an area of interest and explore.)
Doric
Column
Amphitheaters Arches Monuments
Aqueducts Bath HousesTheaters
Ionic
Colum
n
Corinthian
Column

6. Doric: Old State House, Boston

7. Ionic: Virginia State Capitol

8. Corinthian: Univ. of Virginia

9. Corinthian: Independence Hall

10. Corinthian: Monticello

11. Corinthian: U.S. Capitol

12. American Capitals

13. Hall of Columns – U.S. Capitol
Tobacco Capitals Corn Capitals

14. Sculpture
Hiram Powers, Bust of George Washington, ca. 1838–44

15. The Roman Portrait Bust

16. Houdon – Bust of Washington

17. Ceracchi – Bust of Washington

18. Ceracchi – Bust of John Jay

19. Ceracchi – Bust of Hamilton

20. Houdon - Washington

21. Houdon - Washington

22. Houghton - Washington

23. Canova - Washington

24. Lazzarini - Benjamin Franklin

25. Greenough - Washington

26. Painting and Symbols
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, John Trumbull, 1775

27. Neo-Classicism

28. West – Queen Charlotte

29. West – Death of General Wolfe

30. West – Agrippina Landing at Brundisium
with the Ashes of Germanicus

31. Trumbull – The Death of Paulus
Aemilius at the Battle of Cannae

32. Trumbull – Brutus and his Friends
at the Death of Lucretia

33. Peale – Portrait of George Washington

34. Peale – William Pitt

35. Paul Revere – Mr. Samuel Adams

36. Defence of the Constitution, frontispiece

37. Stewart - George Washington

38. Trumbull - General George Washington
Resigning His Commission

39. West – Ben Franklin Drawing
Electricity From the Sky

40. Fragonard – Eripuit Coelo Fulmen
Sceptrumque Tyrannis

41. Seal of the U.S.???

42. Seal of the U.S., obverse

43. Seal of the U.S., reverse

44. Seal of the State of Virginia

45. Seal of the State of New York