Acadec Art 10/19/22

What is the Liberty Cap

• the exterior or face of a building

• Architecture influenced by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio

• a soft, peaked cap that symbolized freedom and was associated with emancipated slaves in Rome

What renewed interest in antiquity began to overtake Europe in the late eighteenth century?

• Neoclassicism

• Palladian Style

• portraiture

What is Neoclassicism

• Cultural education for upper-class Europeans and Americans

• Fluted columns that are capped with acanthus leaves.

• A revival of the arts and architecture of classical antiquity in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in Europe and America.

What is the Grand Tour

• a custom for upper-class Europeans and

  Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

  to travel to a standardized itinerary of European cities

  in order to view antique and Renaissance treasures

• the exterior or face of a building

• a revival of the arts and architecture

  of classical antiquity in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-

  century Europe and America

The Enlightenment

placed a new emphasis on rationality, and the geometric

order of Neoclassicism gave visual expression to these

philosophies.

• True

• False

What were available models

for what enlightened self-governance might look

like?

• Greek Democracy

• Roman Republic

By emulating antique architectural forms and

sculpture, Americans hoped to create what?

• Visual, symbolic

  associations with those earlier cultures

• the values

  they espoused, such as liberty, civic virtue, idealism,

  and making sacrifices for the greater good.

When was Thomas Jefferson born

• January 13, 1743

• April 13, 1743

• January 13, 1742

• April 13, 1742

Where was Thomas Jefferson Born?

• Virginia

• Washington

What were some Thomas Jefferson's talents?

• author

• politician

• scientist

• lawyer

• farmer