james madison home Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/james-madison-home Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:25:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Monticello PRIVATE HOUSE CHARLOTTESVILLE, USA http://travelsfinders.com/monticello-private-house-charlottesville-usa.html http://travelsfinders.com/monticello-private-house-charlottesville-usa.html#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:27:16 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=220883 THOMAS JEFFERSON In 1769, when Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers, began to design his own house, the style he chose was neoclassicism. This style was, to some extent, based on the classical architecture of ancient Rome, as interpreted by architects and writers of the Renaissance, especially Andrea Palladio. From these sources Jefferson took the overall symmetry of his design, which was similar to that of Palladio’s celebrated villas in northern Italy (see pp.124-27). Details such as the columned porticoes also echo Roman and Renaissance architecture. When Jefferson spent time in France during the 1780s, he found another rich

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