American Renaissance
Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/ / 0 comments
A cultural movement that sought to forge ties to Europe and its Greco-Roman heritage, became manifest in classicist motifs in architecture, painting, and the decorative arts. Based on classical European precedents primarily French and Italian palaces and palazzos of the 16th to the 18th century – this grandly formal style transformed America’s major cities between the 1880s and the 1920s after being introduced at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to an eager nation that had begun to tire of Victorian excesses. (Buffalo, 2017)
