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American Renaissance

In the history of American architecture and the arts, the American Renaissance was the period ca 1876 - 1914 characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the last years of the 14th century....
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Renaissance humanism

Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual movement that was a crucial component of the Renaissance, beginning in Florence in the last years of the 14th century....
. The American preoccupation with national identity (or nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism refers to an ideology, a feeling, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. While there is significant debate over the historical origins of nations, nearly all Expert accept that nationalism, at least as an ideology and social movement, is a Modernity phenomenon originating in Europe....
) in this period was expressed by modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
and technology

Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
as well as academic classicism

Classicism

File:Nicolas Poussin 055.jpgClassicism, in the The Arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seeks to emulate....
. It expressed its self-cd]]'s Science presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.]] In the dome of the reading room abeeeeich sdsst the new Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
, Edwin Blashfield

Edwin Blashfield

File:Edwin Blashfield.jpgEdwin Howland Blashfield , an United States artist, was born in New York City.He was a pupil of L?on Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris beginning in 1867, and became a member of the National Academy of Design in New York....
's murals were on the given theme, The Progress of Civilization.

The exhibition American Renaissance: 1876 - 1917 at the Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway , in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second-largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States....
, 1979, encouraged the revival of interest in this movement.