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to: navigation, search American Renaissance painted decor:
gilded stencilling on an olive green ground in the Office of the
Secretary of the Navy in the Executive Office Building, 1879
(now the Vice President's Ceremonial Office) Ennobled currency:
The central vignette of the US$2 bill, Series 1896: Blashfield's
Science presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and
Manufacture.  In the history of American architecture and the
arts, the American Renaissance was the period ca 1876–1917 [1]
characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling
that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman
law, and Renaissance humanism. The American preoccupation with
national identity (or New Nationalism) in this period was
expressed by modernism and technology as well as academic
classicism. It expressed its self-confidence in new
technologies, such as the wire cables of the Brooklyn Bridge in
New York. It found its cultural outlets in b