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Palladian style in and around the Nation Capital
Andrea Palladio’s ideas, his sense of proportion and beauty had a deep and lasting influence on American neoclassicism. Thomas Jefferson had a veritable devotion for this Italian architect, known for the design of many villas in the Veneto region in Italy. Projects for Jefferson’s Monticello mansion in Virginia (bottom left photo), the seat of the University of Virginia he founded (bottom right photo), or his unfulfilled drawings for the White House, capture and reflect Palladio’s ideas and view of art. Washington’s architecture, as a quintessence of Italian classicism, bears clear references to ancient Rome. Our friendship is therefore “sculpted” in the neoclassical and Palladian styles of the buildings which are the symbols of American democracy: the White House (top two photos), Capitol Hill (splendidly frescoed by Constantino Brumidi), the Washington Monument, the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials and the Supreme Court. |
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