Jefferson Memorial: An Essay (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Jefferson Memorial: An EssayIn the same year he embarked upon his political career, Jefferson also began to build Monticello, the lovely home on a] densely wooded summit not far from his birthplace. There were no architects in Vir ginia, so Jefferson became his own architect; and the versatility he showed in this endeavor marked a per manent trait. Learning architecture from books, he discovered his master in the Renaissance Italian Andrea Palladio, who had gone to Roman antiquity for his models. The lesson of Palladio was that the laws of architecture were as universal, chaste, and harmonious as Newtonian laws of nature. Monticello was a modified Palladian villa, and all Jefferson's lat er architectural masterpieces - the Virginia Capitol, Poplar Forest, the University of Virginia - were in the Palladian manner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.