Neoclassicism (Arts)

• Neoclassicism

  • 1780 - 1840
  • Came from the Greek Words: "Neos" - New and "Classicus" - First Class
• Neoclassicism

  • The Age of Reason and Enlightenment
• Jacques Louis David

  • Influential French painter in the neoclassical style
  • The pre-eminent painter of the era
  • French??
  • Death of Morat
  • Oath of the Horatii
  • Napoleon Crossing the Alps
• Jean Aguste Dominique-Ingres

  • French
  • Influenced by the Italian Renaissance
  • Pupil of David
  • Paintings were usually nudes.?

  • Portrait of Napoleon on the Imperial Throne
  • Apotheosis of Homer
• Neoclassical Sculptures

  • Influenced by Alexander the Great
• Antonio Canova

  • Italy
  • A prolific Italian Sculptor/Artist
  • Delicately rendered nude Flesh?
  • Pysche awakened by Cupid's Kiss
  • Washington
• Bertel Thorvaldsen

  • Denmark
  • First internationally acclaimed Danish Artist?
  • Christ
  • Lion of Lucerne
• Temple Style

  • Based on an ancient temple

  Features a Peristyle

  • a continuous line of columns around a building
• Pantheon (Paris)

  • Temple style
  • Made by: Jacques Germain Soufflot
• Palladian Style

  • Based on Andrea Palladio's Style

  Features a balustrade

  • A classical method of crowning a building.
• Robert Adam

  • British
  • Palladian-Style Architect of Britain
  • Designed the White House
• Classical Block Style

  • Features a rectangular or square plan.?

  Henri Labrouste

  • Library of St. Genevieve

  Charles Garnier

  • Palais Garnier (Most classical block of all)