Neoclassicism or “New Classicism”

Part Two

Death of Marat and The Oath of the Horati

Cupid and Psyche Antonio Canova

Chiswick House William Kent

Gardens at Versailles

Bust of Thomas Jefferson Jean-Antoine Houdan

Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson

U.S. Capitol Building

The Death of General Wolfe Benjamin West

In AmericaColonists were reading Locke,Pope, Swift, and other British

writers

Influenced Thomas Jefferson,Benjamin Franklin, and other founding fathers

Ideas influencing the Declaration of Independence:

The right to life, liberty, andproperty—Locke The language was changed to“pursuit of happiness” because ofcontentions over slaves as“property,” a concept deemed

offensive by some.