Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 1 (part 5/5)

"The Republic of Virtue"  

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State architecture after the War of 1812...The capitol building and dome, by Charles Bullfinch.  John Trumbull's paintings in the capitol.

Thomas Cole's "The Course of Empire"

Southern Architecture and Antebellum mansions...on these Hughes quotes Yeats:

Some violent bitter man, some powerful man
Called architect and artist in, that they,
Bitter and violent men, might rear in stone
The sweetness that all longed for night and day,
The gentleness none there had ever known;


originally aired on US television in 1997

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