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Neoclassicism or “New Classicism” Part Two
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Death of Marat and The Oath of the Horati Cupid and Psyche Antonio Canova Chiswick House William Kent
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Gardens at Versailles
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Bust of Thomas Jefferson Jean-Antoine Houdan Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson U.S. Capitol Building The Death of General Wolfe Benjamin West
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In America Colonists were reading Locke, Pope, Swift, and other British writers Influenced Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and other founding fathers Ideas influencing the Declaration of Independence: The right to life, liberty, and property—Locke The language was changed to “pursuit of happiness” because of contentions over slaves as “property,” a concept deemed offensive by some.
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