Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 1 (part 2/5)

"The Republic of Virtue"

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Thomas Jefferson is discussed some more, and a visit is made to University of Virgina to view Jefferson's architecture.

Then to the State House in Richmond, Virginia, designed after the Maison Carrée (Square House) in Niems, France. Jean-Antoine Houdon's statue of George Washington.

a visit to the Alexandria Lodge of the Freemasons, and interview clip with Grand Master Jack Riddell.

And a discussion of the Washington Monument, and other monuments in DC. Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) statue of Abraham Lincoln.


originally aired on US television in 1997

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