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His overall plan for the Capitol did not survive, though much of his interiors do. He also did notable work on the Supreme Court interior and his masterpiece, the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Baltimore Walter , and Girard College also by Walter From the period of about to , the Greek Revival style dominated the United States and could be found as far west as Springfield, Illinois.

Polychromy The discovery that the Greeks had painted their temples had a profound influence on the later development of the style. The archaeological dig at Aegina and Bassae in by Cockerell, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, and Karl Haller von Hallerstein had disinterred painted fragments of masonry daubed with impermanent colours. His imaginative reconstructions of this temple were exhibited in Rome and Paris in and he went on to publish these as Architecture polychrome chez les Grecs and later in Restitution du Temple d'Empedocle a Selinote Hittorff lectured in Paris in , that Greek temples had originally been painted ochre yellow, with the moulding and sculptural details in red, blue, green, and gold.

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While this may or may not have been the case with older wooden or plain stone temples, it was definitely not the case with the more luxurious marble temples, where color was used sparingly to accentuate architectural highlights. Similarly, Henri Labrouste proposed a reconstruction of the temples at Paestum to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in , decked out in startling colour, inverting the accepted chronology of the three Doric temples, thereby implying that the development of the Greek orders did not increase in formal complexity over time, i. Both events were to cause a minor scandal.

The emerging understanding that Greek art was subject to changing forces of environment and culture was a direct assault on the architectural rationalism of the day. Influence With the rise of architectural historicism in the mid-nineteenth century it is no longer possible to speak of a Greek revival movement, where the Doric is employed it is as another self-consciously anachronizing style. The San Francisco mint completed is a case in point.

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