The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: An Ideal and a Symbol
Posted by Jeanette Toohey on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: An Ideal and a Symbol By 1805, the year the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded, Philadelphia had achieved a large measure of political, social and economic stability. It had been the nation’s capital and continued to thrive as a center of banking and commerce. The largest city in the United States at the opening of the nineteenth century, it was arguably the center of culture, with Boston its...read more