Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia, has attracted public attention ever since Jefferson's own day, when sightseers regularly visited the grounds in the hope of catching a glimpse of the former president. In our own day, Monticello has been added to the United Nation' list of World Heritage Sites that must be protected at all costs, designating the house and grounds as an international treasure.\ Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a collection of essays...
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Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's magnificent mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia, has attracted public attention ever since Jefferson's day, when sightseers regularly visited the grounds in hopes of catching a glimpse of the former president. Today, each year more than half a million people from around the world visit Monticello, the only home in America on the United Nations' list of World Heritage Sites that must be protected at all costs.Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a superb collection of essays, adorned with beautiful color photography, that showcases this American treasure. Designed by Jefferson himself, Monticello is a model of elegance and symmetry. It is also home to Jefferson's world-class collection of art and porcelain from France, scientific instruments from England, the finest American furniture from Philadelphia and New York, and enduring furnishings made in Monticello's own joinery by enslaved craftsmen. The celebrated gardens and grounds form an experimental yet breathtakingly lovely landscape featuring flowers, fruits, and vegetables of the Old and New Worlds.Featuring essays by Monticello's scholarly staff, this stunning book explores all aspects of Jefferson's home. A section on the plantation and the enslaved community at Monticello provides a larger context in which to place and understand the house, its activities, and its owner.Garry WillsThis beautiful book captures the home's aesthetic appeal, and the experts writing the text bring new information on the way Jefferson lived, studied, and created there.
Foreward Preface Thomas Jefferson's Essay in Architecture A Look Inside Monticello Furnishing Monticello: Jefferson as Consumer and Collector The Gardens of Monticello The Plantation: A Day in the Life Notes Suggested Readings Acknowledgments and Photo Credits Index About the Contributors
\ Southern LivingThis book takes us on a photographic and textual adventure into the spirit of Monticello and its architect, Thomas Jefferson.\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles TimesThis is a rare coffee-table book, not only handsome but full of worthwhile text and insights into the life and thinking of Jefferson as president, architect and Renaissance man.\ \ \ Richmond Times-DispatchMany books have been devoted to Monticello; this stands with the best.\ \ \ \ \ Garry WillsThis beautiful book captures the home's aesthetic appeal, and the experts writing the text bring new information on the way Jefferson lived, studied, and created there.\ \ \ \ \ Los Angeles TimesThis is a rare coffee-table book, not only handsome but full of worthwhile text and insights into the life and thinking of Jefferson as president, architect and Renaissance man. Along with excellent photographs of Monticello's interiors and gardens, the book explains the contemporaneous influences that shaped Jefferson's design and use of the house.\ \ \ \ \ Southern LivingEvery approaching step reveals the magnitude of [Monticello's] ingenuity, from its gardens and vineyards to its architectural nuances. This book takes us on a photographic and textual adventure into the spirit of Monticello. . . . This tribute gives us insight into the complexity of the statesman and his residence, which is the only American house on the United Nations' list of World Heritage sites.\ \
