{"id":308,"date":"2021-04-19T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-4051-2021-skin-deep\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2021-05-01T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T19:37:18","slug":"influence-of-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/africana-studies-4051-2021-skin-deep\/influence-of-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Influence of Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art existed at Bowdoin before art instruction was formally introduced into its curriculum. In its early years, art at Bowdoin was experienced through the architecture on campus and gifts given to the college, like the James Bowdoin III Collection of paintings and drawings. Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794, and its purpose according to Calhoun was \u201cto promote virtue and piety and the knowledge of such the languages of the useful and Liberal Arts and sciences.”[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/h3>\n

<\/a>Early college instruction in the 1800s was based on a finite body of knowledge that generally had to be memorized. The curriculum comprised ancient languages, natural philosophy, physics, and mathematics, mental and moral philosophy. Modern languages and rhetoric were not added until the 1820s. Universities like Harvard and Yale had a similar curriculum development, as they started teaching finite knowledge relating to the theory and sacred languages before introducing humanities and sciences.<\/h3>\n

The Bowdoin College Chapel (1855)<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n
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\u201cBowdoin Chapel\u201d Local Call Number 6.1.13, Bowdoin College Archives, Brunswick, Maine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The June 1855 dedication of the King Chapel (now Bowdoin College Chapel) marked the completion of the campus\u2019s first structure purposefully designed to incorporate the display of art. Built as a combination chapel, library, and picture gallery, the Chapel is one of the earliest examples in the United States of the German Romanesque Revival style.[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/h3>\n

In style and in purpose, the structure mimicked the English collegiate chapels of Cambridge and Oxford. Over time, the north and south walls of the chapel were gradually decorated with copies of old master paintings and scenes from the Old and New Testaments. The murals were added as the funds became available. Before the construction of Hubbard Hall and the Walker Art Building, the \u201cside aisle\u201d areas housed the Peucinian and Athenaen libraries, a meeting room, and a study for the President. The east end of the building, known as Banister Hall, held the College\u2019s art collection, with a sculpture gallery on the first floor and a painting gallery on the second. Bowdoin students attended daily worship meetings in the Chapel.[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/h3>\n
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