American historians, while noting that Benjamin Franklin and George Washington were indeed active Masons, have downplayed the importance of Freemasonry in causing the American Revolution because the Masonic order was non-political and included both Patriots and their enemy the Loyalists. Art The art produced during the Enlightenment focused on a search for morality that was absent from the art in previous eras. At the same time, the Classical art of Greece and Rome became interesting to people again, since archaeological teams discovered Pompeii and Herculaneum. People took inspiration from it and revived classical art into neo-classical art. This can especially be seen in early American art and architecture, which featured arches, goddesses, and other classical architectural designs. See also Atlantic Revolutions Early modern philosophy European and American voyages of scientific exploration Midlands Enlightenment Regional Enlightenments: American Enlightenment Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment Modern Greek Enlightenment Polish Enlightenment Russian Enlightenment Scottish Enlightenment Spanish Enlightenment Renaissance philosophy Whig history Witch trials in the early modern period Beyond the witch trials Notes References Citations Sources Andrew, Donna T. "Popular Culture and Public Debate: London 1780". The Historical Journal, Vol. 39, No. 2. (June 1996), pp. 405–423. in JSTOR Burns, William. Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopædia (2003) Cowan, Brian, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005 Darnton, Robert. The Literary Underground of the Old Regime. (1982). Melton, James Van Horn. The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. (2001). Robertson, Ritchie. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790. London: Allen Lane, 2020; New York: HarperCollins, 2021 Roche, Daniel. France in the Enlightenment. (1998). Further reading Reference and surveys Becker, Carl L. The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers. (1932), a famous short classic Chisick, Harvey. Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment (2005) Delon, Michel. Encyclopædia of the Enlightenment (2001) 1480 pp. Dupré, Louis. The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture (2004) Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (1966, 2nd ed. 1995), 592 pp. excerpt and text search vol 1. Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom (1969, 2nd ed. 1995), a highly influential study excerpt and text search vol 2; Greensides F., Hyland P., Gomez O. (ed.). The Enlightenment (2002) Fitzpatrick, Martin et al., eds. The Enlightenment World (2004). 714 pp. 39 essays by scholars Hampson, Norman. The Enlightenment (1981) online Hazard, Paul. European Thought in the 18th Century: From