HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT.
The work offered re-establishes the instruction outlined in the first curriculum
of the University, 1818, the earliest proposal for instruction in art,
architecture and music in any American university. An unrivalled background
is provided for it by the buildings and environment of Charlottesville;
the University group, with its old buildings especially designed to furnish
examples of the various orders "as specimens for the architectural lectures,"
its new buildings designed by Stanford White; the works of sculpture
by Houdon, Ezekiel, Bitter, Borglum, Keck, Shrady, and Aitken; the
paintings and prints presented by Messrs. Thomas F. Ryan, John Barton
Payne, John Armstrong Chaloner and others; the concerts and exhibitions
of paintings brought to the University with part of the income of the McIntire
fund. For the current work in art and architecture there is generous
provision of casts, books, photographs, and lantern slides, as well as a number
of envoi drawings by former holders of the Roman Prize and the Rotch
Travelling Scholarship.
Inquiries from prospective students of Architecture regarding choice of
electives, transfer of credits from other departments or other institutions,
etc., may be addressed to Joseph Hudnut, Professor of Art and Architecture.
