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Neoclassicism or “New Classicism ” Part Two . Death of Marat and The Oath of the Horati. Chiswick House William Kent. Cupid and Psyche Antonio Canova. Gardens at Versailles. Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson.
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Death of Marat and The Oath of the Horati Chiswick House William Kent Cupid and Psyche Antonio Canova
Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson The Death of General Wolfe Benjamin West Bust of Thomas Jefferson Jean-Antoine Houdan U.S. Capitol Building
In America Colonists 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, and property—Locke The language was changed to “pursuit of happiness” because of contentions over slaves as “property,” a concept deemed offensive by some.