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The Pantheon was built as a church but secularized during the Revolution. The large portico is modeled directly on ancient Roman temples.
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This painting depicts a scene of lower-class family life.. Greuze illustrates enlightenment- that the poor, unlike immoral aristocracy, are full of natural virtue and honest sentiment.
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Johann Winckelmann published this book tourge the immitation of the noble, simplistic, and calm grandeur of the greeks.
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The Gregorian style homes became popular in the United States. Moticello is the home that Thomas Jefferson designed for himself. It has brick and wooden trim and Doric order columns.
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Wolfe's death in the siege of Quebec, during the French and Indian war had caused considerable feeling in London. The way in which the subjects are arranged resemebles the similarity of dead Christ.
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Watson, a young English man, attacked by a shark wgile swimming in Havanna Harbor had been dramatically rescued. Many years later he commissioned COpley to depict this gruesome experience.
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Marat, one of the politial leaders of the Revolution, had been murdered in his bathtub. A painful skin condition caused him to do paperwork in the bathtub. A woman named Charolette Corday burst in with a personal petition and stabbed him while he was reading it.
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