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Alexander Jackson Davis, Artist

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Once upon a time, architects could draw, could show to you the world direct from the mind, vivid in color, form and line.  Michelangelo, an unlicensed architect, imagined the storybook of our humanity upon the Sistine ceiling, set it within a picture of pictured architecture.  And then, of course, you know his Saint Peter’s Basilica, grandest building in Christendom, a building begun by Bramante, continued by Raphael, extended into exalted clarity by Michelangelo.  We all live and work and dream within inherited tradition.

 

Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling. Courtesy, Flickr Commons

 

 

Alexander Jackson Davis, Design for the Capitol of Ohio, Columbus. Courtesy, The Metropolitain Museum of Art

Traditions have their way with us even when we plan to have our way with tradition, even when we plan to do away with tradition.  The Dome of Saint Peter’s Basilica, grandchild of the Pantheon, I see in our U.S. Capitol dome … yes, I see it in this moment of writing when on the roof deck of my home.  Below me, the streets of Alexandria, Virginia, explored by young Alexander Jackson Davis when walking with ink-stained hands from his brother’s print shop to the theatre where he performed.  As I’ve been told, the teenaged Alexander designed stage sets, much as Michelangelo theatrically set the Bible upon the stage of the Sistine ceiling.  We artists are dreamers all.

Perhaps you know: What enters your mind through your eye leaves from your heart through your tongue.  Yes, we live in an envious, pornographic, wikipedia Age when the harmful is merely mundane.  Look about you and see what we have made.  When in Alexandria, between labor and acting and designing, young A.J. Davis read Romantic novels.  No, not nickel romances but the great works of the Romantics, Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth, et alia, and see what he made of what he allowed into his mind.

 

From Raphael’s School of Athens.

 

 

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    the home of Viscountess Rothermere.
    Built 2000 to 2002 to designs by Quinlan Terry.
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