美国清教主义研究.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 研究型美国文学学习资料 美 国 清 教 主 义 研 究 A Study of Puritanism and Puritans in America 研究课题： 清教主义思想对美国人价值观的影响； 清教主义思想对美国式资本主义形成的影响； 清教主义思想对美国全球意识形成的影响； 清教主义思想对美国文学的影响； 清教主义对美国人的服饰、饮食的影响； 清教主义对美国建筑艺术的影响 The Landing of the Pilgrims, 1620 was contributed by Enrico Causici in 1825, and is one of four reliefs which stand over the four Rotunda doors. The Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven, Holland, July 22nd, 1620 was painted by Robert W. Weir in 1843. It stands as one of eight paintings in the Rotunda, which together form a narrative of early American history. Four of the paintings were completed by John Trumbull in the late 1810s and early 20s, and portray different important moments of the Revolutionary era: the signing of the Declaration, the surrender of Burgoyne and of Cornwallis, and the resignation of Washington. The others take as their themes Pocahontas, De Soto, and Columbus, and were added between 1840 and 1855. The Rotunda frieze depicts a panoramic view of what have been seen to be representative moments of U.S. history--from the landing of Columbus to the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and on. The first third of the frieze--including the Landing of the Pilgrims--was completed by Constantino Brumidi before is death in 1880. The Puritan scene falls between an image of Pocahantas saving John Smith, and one of Penns treaty with the Indians. The painting of William Brewster, in the President’s room of the Senate Wing Roger Williams sculpted by Franklin Simmons, 1870 John Winthrop sculpted by Richard S. Greenough, 1875 About Puritanism Puritanism, a movement arising within the Church of England in the latter part of the 16th century, which sought to carry the reformation of that church beyond the point represented by the Elizabethan settlement (1559), an attempt to establish a middle course between Roman Catholicism and the ideas of the Protestant reformers (see English Revolution). It had a continuous life within the church unt