<Ul> <Li> Philosophy </Li> </Ul> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> In American architecture, Neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca . 1890--1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux - Arts architecture, and its very last, large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the architectural community as being backward thinking and old fashioned in its design), and the American Museum of Natural History's Roosevelt Memorial . These were considered stylistic anachronisms when they were finished . In the British Raj, Sir Edwin Lutyens' monumental city planning for New Delhi marks the glorious sunset of Neoclassicism . World War II was to shatter most longing for (and imitation of) mythical, heroic times . </P>

Who was the 18th century sculptor who expressed the french neoclassical ideals