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The Republic of virtue

The first episode of an eight-part TV mini-series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This segment examines some of the first images made in America which resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the founding fathers felt that classicism gave the young nation power and authority. In Washington, D.C. architects adopted and transformed the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal. Hughes explores the work of artists and architects, Benjamin West, John S. Copley, Charles W. Peale, Thomas Cole and Charles Bulfinch.

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  • "The first episode of an eight-part TV mini-series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This segment examines some of the first images made in America which resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the founding fathers felt that classicism gave the young nation power and authority. In Washington, D.C. architects adopted and transformed the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal. Hughes explores the work of artists and architects, Benjamin West, John S. Copley, Charles W. Peale, Thomas Cole and Charles Bulfinch."@en
  • "Some of the first images made in America resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers felt that classicism lends the young nation power and authority. From heroic statues of George Washington to the architecture of Washington, D.C., the new republic adopted and transformed the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal."
  • "Robert Hughes studies the U.S.A. through the things that Americans have made. This episode charts the foundation of American national identity following the War of Independence and ends on the eve of the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson's contributions to architecture are examined and the works of the nation's first painters."@en
  • "Examines some of the first images made in America which resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the founding fathers felt that classicism gave the young nation power and authority. In Washington, D.C. architects adopted and transformed the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal. Hughes explores the work of artists and architects, Benjamin West, John S. Copley, Charles W. Peale, Thomas Cole and Charles Bulfinch."@en
  • "How early American art was saturated with imagery of classical Greece and Republican Rome. Even today, the influence of classicism still shows, even if in mutated forms."
  • "Hughes' personal interpretation of American art and architecture and what it reveals about the American national character. This first episode looks at the classical style of the early American republic."
  • "Hughes' personal interpretation of American art and architecture and what it reveals about the American national character. This first episode looks at the classical style of the early American republic."@en
  • "How early American art was saturated with imagery of classical Greece and Republican Rome. Even today, the influence of classicism still shows, even if in mutated forms."@en

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  • "The Republic of virtue"
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  • "The republic of virtue"

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