Monticello is proud to partner with the Charlottesville Art Excursion to offer new online and onsite opportunities to experience the arts at Monticello.
Experience Monticello illuminated at sunset on Saturdays in October. Explore the mountaintop through dynamic color, light, and sound. Enjoy lights, live music, and family-friendly activities. Food as well as beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
Explore the different mediums of art at Monticello when you visit this fall. Get ready to hunt for items, test your knowledge, snap photos, and share with us your artistic expressions!
This new visually stunning volume explores Monticello, both house and plantation, with texts that present a current assessment of Jefferson’s cultural contributions to his noteworthy home and the fledgling country.
With modern cleaning techniques at the ready, Monticello’s Curatorial department removed old layers of wax, cleaned the built-up dirt, and repaired Ariadne’s damaged hands, fingers, and toe.
The 'Edgehill Portrait', as it is commonly called, is jointly owned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.
Painting of Martha Jefferson Randolph Returns to Monticello
Jefferson purchased a number of busts from artist Houdon. Among these was a terra-cotta patinated plaster of Jefferson's trusted friend, the marquis de Lafayette.
Renowned portrait painter Charles Willson Peale purchased a device to simplify silhouette production. Yet it was perhaps his young enslaved servant Moses Williams who learned to operate this new device that profited the most. Learn about Moses Williams and silhouettes in this latest episode of Monticello’s podcast series, “In the Course of Human Events.”
Thomas Jefferson’s designs for Monticello and other structures have had a lasting impact on American architecture. In this episode, Monticello guide Don McCracken shares the story of how Monticello came to be, both as an idea and as a physical building, and how it serves as an example of what scholars call “Jeffersonian Architecture.”
