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Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite

Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite

Mooney, Barbara Burlison

Hardcover

General ArchitectureGeneral ArtArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0813926734
ISBN13: 9780813926735
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Feb 1 2008
Pages: 400
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.16 Width: 7.29 Depth: 10.11
Language: English

In a list of objectives and inquiries meant to guide and make profitable the European travel of two young Americans in 1788, Thomas Jefferson noted, Architecture [is] worth great attention. As we double our numbers ever 20 years we must double our houses.... It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much. Referring both to the large physical presence of architecture, as well as the ability of a structure to reveal its owner's character, Jefferson articulates the telling relationship in eighteenth-century Virginia between architecture and construction of the self. In Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite, Barbara Burlison Mooney employs Jefferson's theory to examine twenty-five great eighteenth-century Virginia mansions, and offer an analytical overview of Virginia's elite residential architecture from a patronage perspective.

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