2024-04-28T00:56:36-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150166296/slavery-and-liberty-a-new-exhibit-explores-the-thomas-jefferson-paradox Sean Joyner 2019-10-23T13:07:00-04:00 >2019-10-23T17:33:03-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/89/8917305c7c7fb5d62dda5d1af8a4e5a1.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The Chrysler Museum of Art on the <a href="https://archinect.com/uva_sarc" target="_blank">University of Virginia</a> campus will put on an exhibit entitled "<a href="https://chrysler.org/exhibition/thomas-jefferson-architect-palladian-models-democratic-principles-and-the-conflict-of-ideals/" target="_blank">Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals.</a>"&nbsp;</p> <p>It looks at the Jefferson's influences and ideas around architecture, including displays of models based on his designs, reports <em>Associated Press</em> (AP). On the one hand, Jefferson was a man who sought to create architecture that symbolized "liberty and democracy," but on the other, he used enslaved Americans to construct the very same structures designed to embody these ideals.&nbsp;</p> <p>"They helped build everything from Virginia's Statehouse&mdash;a precursor to the Capital Building in Washington&mdash;to the University of Virginia and Jefferson's home of Monticello," <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/exhibit-follows-nation-s-august-commemoration-1619-arrival-enslaved-africans-n1069156" target="_blank">writes AP</a><em></em>, speaking of Jefferson's use of slave labor.&nbsp;</p> <p>The exhibit opens this Saturday. It "juxtaposes Jefferson's visions with the realities of slavery." The exhibition catalogue,&nbsp;<em><a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300246209/thomas-jefferson-architect" target="_blank">Thomas Jefferson, Architect</a>,</em> includes contributions from&nbsp;Guido ...</p>