Leighton was considered to be a neoclassicist. The temple was built in the Neoclassicist style. An early Neoclassicist in sculpture was the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel. His concessions to the emerging Neoclassicist style remained reluctant, however. Only then were the destroyed buildings in the city rebuilt in a neoclassicist style. His paintings are rooted both in neoclassicist theory and modernism. The interior was restored in the Neoclassicist era by Giocondo Albertolli. The former town hall was built in 1835 in the neoclassicist style. Here he studied under neoclassicist Jacques-Louis David from 1811 to 1812. Jean Peyron was another neoclassicist in the early Louis XVI reign. The ruins in the background indicate the Neoclassicist love of antiquity. The present-day monastery complex is towered by the neoclassicist monastery church St Verena. The town has a historic downtown, neoclassicist streets and extensive parks in the town center. The present neoclassicist manor house was built in the early 19th century. John Vanderlyn (October 15, 1776September 23, 1852) was an American neoclassicist painter.