biography
pronunciation:
[greenoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1805–52)
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| biography:
| Sculptor and writer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. After two years at Harvard he moved to Italy in 1825, where he became a leading member of the American artistic colony there. His principal work is a colossal statue in Classical style of George Washington as Zeus, commissioned for the Capitol rotunda but now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. His advanced views on functionalism and freedom from ornament in design, as expressed in his Travels, Observations and Experience of a Yankee Stonecutter (1852), probably influenced the architectural ideas of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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