CLASSICS AND CLASSICISM, Virginia Commonwealth University's Ninth
Annual Symposium on Architectural History, will take place at the Virginia
Historical Society, at 428 North Boulevard, Richmond, on Friday, September
28, 2001, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.  Cosponsors of the conference are the
Virginia Historical Society, the Center for Palladian Studies in America,
which has underwritten the papers, the Maymont Foundation, the Valentine
Museum/Richmond History Center, the Association for the Preservation of
Virginia Antiquities, and the Library of Virginia.  VCU graduate students
under the direction of Charles Brownell will present fresh research on the
origin of the so-called Palladian window, James Hoban's design for the White
House, rare architectural books in the Library of Virginia, Richmond's Cole
Digges House, rooms decorated à la Flaxman in Europe and America and
Virginia architects John Clarke, George Winston, John Ariss, the Callis
family, Albert L. West and D. Wiley Anderson.
        Admission is free to students, $8.00 per person for members of
sponsoring institutions, and $10.00 per person for others.  For all
participants, the charge for a post-conference reception is an additional
$5.00.
        For reservations, please send checks, payable to VCU, to Conference,
Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box
843046, 922 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284-3046, by September 21.
For a brochure or other information, please call 804/828-2784.

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