In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This artist was influenced by his early consumption of James Gibbs' Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture, and his first creation drew from the Semple House. Frederick D. Nichols asserts that his reading of Roland Frart de Chambrays Parallle de larchitecture antique et la moderne made him obsessed with octagons, (+) exemplified in the garden and general layout of the Poplar Forest house he designed. Charles-Louis Clerisseau introduced this man to the French "cubist" style of architecture and sparked his enthusiasm for the Maison Carree, later adapted into a building he designed for his home polity's capitol (*) building. One of his final creations, known as The Rotunda, was essentially a half-scale Pantheon and was flanked by five pavilions on either side, an idea drawn partially from William Thornton. Probably his best known work contained Mulberry Row on the same property and drew heavily from his reading of Palladio. FTP, identify this architect best known designing the University of Virginia and his home, Monticello.
Fine Arts