ENLIGHTENMENT ARCHITECTURE

Amazing buildings inspired by neoclassical and rococo ideas

1 MONTICELLO CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA, USA Drawing from the Classical Revival movement of the Enlightenment, Monticello was famously the home of United States Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. It was built between 1768 and 1809, with a bulk of the construction being completed in 1784 when Jefferson left for France to be America’s representative there. Here he was exposed to the revival of interest in ancient Roman architecture that had swept through the Continent and began his plans for expansions and revisions to Monticello. The mansion we see today is the result of those plans with its 35 rooms, each a different shape, its massive gardens and central octagonal dome, which was the first of its kind in America. The site passed through several hands following Jefferson’s death, leaving behind debts that…

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