Dress

American

Not on view

"There is only one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled: by imitating the Ancients," declared Johann Joachim Winckelmann, prophet and propagandist for Neoclassicism. New democracies, with their idealism, were vehemently and visibly expressed in quotidian form in statuary-emulating dress.

Dress, linen, American

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