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Political Upheaval · 1776

American Revolution

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Works dated 1766–1786

Democratic ideals demanded a new visual language. Neoclassicism, evoking the Roman Republic, became the aesthetic of political liberty, used by American founders and French revolutionaries alike.

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American Revolution (1776) · Ellsworth