Thomas Jefferson, architect : Palladian models, democratic principles, and the conflict of ideals / Lloyd DeWitt and Corey Piper.

"Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance--particularly Palladian--and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republic, Jefferson completed visionary building projects...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: DeWitt, Lloyd (Author)
Piper, Corey (Author)
Corporate Author: Chrysler Museum (Host institution, Issuing body)
Language:English
Published: Norfolk : New Haven : Chrysler Museum of Art ; in association with Yale University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Exhibitions.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Architecture.
Architecture > Virginia > Exhibitions.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) > Virginia > Exhibitions.
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Virginia.
k > Exhibition > v > publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:vii, 200 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Palladian models, democratic principles, and the conflict of ideals
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Armando Varricchio
  • Introduction / Erik H. Neil
  • Thomas Jefferson, the making of an architect / Howard Burns
  • The Palladians / Guido Beltramini
  • Jefferson and England / Richard Guy Wilson
  • What he saw: Thomas Jefferson's grand tour / Lloyd DeWitt
  • Books, buildings, and the spaces of democracy: Jefferson's library from Paris to Washington / Barry Bergdoll
  • Race, reason, and the architecture of Jefferson's Virginia statehouse / Mabel O. Wilson
  • The architecture of democracy in a landscape of slavery: design and construction at Jefferson's university / Louis P. Nelson
  • Plates.