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Art & Architecture

The fine arts of painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry allow the fullest expression and display of an artist’s imagination, and they are vehicles for the stimulation of the intellect. For those reasons, they have traditionally been considered the highest form of artistic endeavor. They provide artists the means to record events, to highlight landscape settings, to create buildings that do more than shelter, and in portraiture they allow the viewer to see figures from the past as well as the present.   

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16,000 BCE to 1622 CE
A Land of Opportunity: Creating Virginia
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1623 to 1763
A Distant Dominion
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1764 to 1824
From British Colony to American State
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1825 to 1860
Challenge of a New Century
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1861 to 1876
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1877 to 1924
Virginia in the New South
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1925 to Today
Dynamic Dominion

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