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Western cultural movement inspired past ancient Greece and Rome

Neoclassicism (likewise spelled Neo-classicism; from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Greek κλασικός klasikόs, "of the highest rank")^[ane] was a Western cultural move in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and compages that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical artifact. Neoclassicism was built-in in Rome largely cheers to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, at the time of the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, simply its popularity spread all over Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals.^[2] ^[3] The main Neoclassical movement coincided with the 18th-century Historic period of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th century, laterally competing with Romanticism. In architecture, the way continued throughout the 19th, 20th and up to the 21st century.

European Neoclassicism in the visual arts began c. 1760 in opposition to the then-ascendant Rococo style. Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, decoration and asymmetry; Neoclassical compages is based on the principles of simplicity and symmetry, which were seen as virtues of the arts of Rome and Aboriginal Greece, and were more immediately drawn from 16th-century Renaissance Classicism. Each "neo"-classicism selects some models among the range of possible classics that are available to it, and ignores others. The Neoclassical writers and talkers, patrons and collectors, artists and sculptors of 1765–1830 paid homage to an thought of the generation of Phidias, but the sculpture examples they actually embraced were more likely to be Roman copies of Hellenistic sculptures. They ignored both Archaic Greek art and the works of Late Antiquity. The "Rococo" fine art of aboriginal Palmyra came every bit a revelation, through engravings in Forest's The Ruins of Palmyra. Fifty-fifty Greece was all-merely-unvisited, a crude backwater of the Ottoman Empire, dangerous to explore, so Neoclassicists' appreciation of Greek compages was mediated through drawings and engravings, which subtly smoothed and regularized, "corrected" and "restored" the monuments of Greece, not always consciously.

The Empire fashion, a 2nd phase of Neoclassicism in architecture and the decorative arts, had its cultural centre in Paris in the Napoleonic era. Specially in architecture, but also in other fields, Neoclassicism remained a force long after the early on 19th century, with periodic waves of revivalism into the 20th and even the 21st centuries, especially in the United States and Russia.

History [edit]

Neoclassicism is a revival of the many styles and spirit of classic antiquity inspired directly from the classical menses,^[four] which coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment, and was initially a reaction against the excesses of the preceding Rococo manner.^[5] While the movement is often described equally the opposed counterpart of Romanticism, this is a groovy over-simplification that tends non to exist sustainable when specific artists or works are considered. The case of the supposed chief champion of belatedly Neoclassicism, Ingres, demonstrates this especially well.^[6] The revival tin exist traced to the establishment of formal archaeology.^[7] ^[8]

The writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann were of import in shaping this movement in both architecture and the visual arts. His books Thoughts on the Faux of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture (1750) and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art", 1764) were the first to distinguish sharply betwixt Ancient Greek and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a trajectory from growth to maturity and then imitation or decadence that continues to accept influence to the present day. Winckelmann believed that art should aim at "noble simplicity and calm grandeur",^[10] and praised the idealism of Greek fine art, in which he said we find "non just nature at its most beautiful just as well something across nature, namely certain platonic forms of its dazzler, which, every bit an ancient interpreter of Plato teaches united states, come from images created past the mind lonely". The theory was very far from new in Western art, but his emphasis on close copying of Greek models was: "The only way for us to become bully or if this be possible, inimitable, is to imitate the ancients".^[11]

With the advent of the Grand Tour, a fad of collecting antiquities began that laid the foundations of many keen collections spreading a Neoclassical revival throughout Europe.^[12] "Neoclassicism" in each art implies a item canon of a "classical" model.

In English, the term "Neoclassicism" is used primarily of the visual arts; the similar movement in English literature, which began considerably before, is called Augustan literature. This, which had been dominant for several decades, was get-go to decline by the time Neoclassicism in the visual arts became fashionable. Though terms differ, the situation in French literature was similar. In music, the period saw the rise of classical music, and "Neoclassicism" is used of 20th-century developments. However, the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck represented a specifically Neoclassical approach, spelt out in his preface to the published score of Alceste (1769), which aimed to reform opera by removing ornamentation, increasing the role of the chorus in line with Greek tragedy, and using simpler unadorned melodic lines.^[thirteen]

The term "Neoclassical" was not invented until the mid-19th century, and at the time the manner was described past such terms as "the true fashion", "reformed" and "revival"; what was regarded every bit being revived varying considerably. Ancient models were certainly very much involved, but the style could too exist regarded as a revival of the Renaissance, and specially in French republic as a render to the more austere and noble Baroque of the age of Louis XIV, for which a considerable nostalgia had adult as France'due south dominant armed forces and political position started a serious pass up.^[14] Ingres's coronation portrait of Napoleon even borrowed from Belatedly Antique consular diptychs and their Carolingian revival, to the disapproval of critics.

Neoclassicism was strongest in architecture, sculpture and the decorative arts, where classical models in the same medium were relatively numerous and attainable; examples from ancient painting that demonstrated the qualities that Winckelmann'due south writing found in sculpture were and are lacking. Winckelmann was involved in the dissemination of knowledge of the first large Roman paintings to be discovered, at Pompeii and Herculaneum and, like near contemporaries except for Gavin Hamilton, was unimpressed by them, citing Pliny the Younger'south comments on the reject of painting in his menstruation.^[15]

Equally for painting, Greek painting was utterly lost: Neoclassicist painters imaginatively revived it, partly through bas-relief friezes, mosaics and pottery painting, and partly through the examples of painting and ornamentation of the High Renaissance of Raphael's generation, frescos in Nero's Domus Aurea, Pompeii and Herculaneum, and through renewed admiration of Nicolas Poussin. Much "Neoclassical" painting is more classicizing in subject matter than in anything else. A tearing, merely often very desperately informed, dispute raged for decades over the relative claim of Greek and Roman fine art, with Winckelmann and his boyfriend Hellenists generally being on the winning side.^[16]

Painting and printmaking [edit]

It is hard to recapture the radical and heady nature of early on Neoclassical painting for contemporary audiences; it now strikes fifty-fifty those writers favourably inclined to it equally "insipid" and "about entirely uninteresting to us"—some of Kenneth Clark'southward comments on Anton Raphael Mengs' ambitious Parnassus at the Villa Albani,^[17] past the creative person whom his friend Winckelmann described equally "the greatest artist of his own, and perhaps of later times".^[eighteen] The drawings, subsequently turned into prints, of John Flaxman used very simple line drawing (thought to be the purest classical medium^[19]) and figures mostly in contour to depict The Odyssey and other subjects, and once "fired the creative youth of Europe" merely are now "neglected",^[20] while the history paintings of Angelica Kauffman, mainly a portraitist, are described as having "an unctuous softness and tediousness" by Fritz Novotny.^[21] Rococo frivolity and Baroque movement had been stripped away but many artists struggled to put anything in their place, and in the absence of ancient examples for history painting, other than the Greek vases used by Flaxman, Raphael tended to be used as a substitute model, equally Winckelmann recommended.

The work of other artists, who could not hands be described every bit insipid, combined aspects of Romanticism with a more often than not Neoclassical fashion, and grade part of the history of both movements. The High german-Danish painter Asmus Jacob Carstens finished very few of the big mythological works that he planned, leaving by and large drawings and colour studies which frequently succeed in budgeted Winckelmann'south prescription of "noble simplicity and calm grandeur".^[22] Unlike Carstens' unrealized schemes, the etchings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi were numerous and profitable, and taken dorsum by those making the Grand Tour to all parts of Europe. His main subject thing was the buildings and ruins of Rome, and he was more stimulated by the ancient than the modern. The somewhat disquieting atmosphere of many of his Vedute (views) becomes dominant in his series of 16 prints of Carceri d'Invenzione ("Imaginary Prisons") whose "oppressive cyclopean architecture" conveys "dreams of fearfulness and frustration".^[23] The Swiss-born Johann Heinrich Füssli spent almost of his career in England, and while his fundamental style was based on Neoclassical principles, his subjects and handling more ofttimes reflected the "Gothic" strain of Romanticism, and sought to evoke drama and excitement.

Neoclassicism in painting gained a new sense of direction with the sensational success of Jacques-Louis David's Adjuration of the Horatii at the Paris Salon of 1785. Despite its evocation of republican virtues, this was a commission by the royal government, which David insisted on painting in Rome. David managed to combine an idealist style with drama and forcefulness. The central perspective is perpendicular to the motion-picture show plane, made more emphatic past the dim arcade behind, against which the heroic figures are disposed as in a frieze, with a hint of the bogus lighting and staging of opera, and the classical colouring of Nicolas Poussin. David rapidly became the leader of French art, and after the French Revolution became a politician with control of much government patronage in art. He managed to retain his influence in the Napoleonic period, turning to frankly propagandistic works, but had to leave France for exile in Brussels at the Bourbon Restoration.^[24]

David's many students included Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who saw himself as a classicist throughout his long career, despite a mature style that has an equivocal relationship with the main current of Neoclassicism, and many later diversions into Orientalism and the Troubadour style that are hard to distinguish from those of his unabashedly Romantic contemporaries, except past the primacy his works always requite to drawing. He exhibited at the Salon for over 60 years, from 1802 into the beginnings of Impressionism, but his style, in one case formed, changed little.^[25]

The ancient Capitol ascended by approximately one hundred steps . . .; by Giovanni Battista Piranesi; circa 1750; carving; size of the entire sheet: 33.5 × 49.four cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Rome; by Giovanni Pauolo Panini; 1757; oil on canvass; 172.ane x 229.nine cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Aqueduct in Ruins; by Hubert Robert; 18th century; oil on canvass; 81.6 x 137.v cm; Metropolitan Museum of Fine art
The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus; by Carle Vernet; 1789; oil on canvas; top; 129.9 x 438.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
11 February 1866 - Modern Romania; by Gheorghe Tattarescu; 1866; oil on cardboard; 31.iv x 24 cm; individual collection

Sculpture [edit]

If Neoclassical painting suffered from a lack of ancient models, Neoclassical sculpture tended to suffer from an backlog of them, although examples of bodily Greek sculpture of the "classical menses" beginning in about 500 BC were then very few; the about highly regarded works were by and large Roman copies.^[26] The leading Neoclassical sculptors enjoyed huge reputations in their own solar day, merely are now less regarded, with the exception of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whose work was mainly portraits, very often as busts, which practice not sacrifice a potent impression of the sitter's personality to idealism. His style became more classical as his long career connected, and represents a rather polish progression from Rococo amuse to classical dignity. Unlike some Neoclassical sculptors he did not insist on his sitters wearing Roman dress, or beingness unclothed. He portrayed nearly of the notable figures of the Enlightenment, and travelled to America to produce a statue of George Washington, too as busts of Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and other founders of the new democracy.^[27] ^[28]

Antonio Canova and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen were both based in Rome, and every bit well equally portraits produced many aggressive life-size figures and groups; both represented the strongly idealizing tendency in Neoclassical sculpture. Canova has a lightness and grace, where Thorvaldsen is more severe; the difference is exemplified in their respective groups of the Three Graces.^[29] All these, and Flaxman, were still active in the 1820s, and Romanticism was slow to impact sculpture, where versions of Neoclassicism remained the dominant style for most of the 19th century.

An early Neoclassicist in sculpture was the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel.^[thirty] John Flaxman was likewise, or mainly, a sculptor, mostly producing severely classical reliefs that are comparable in way to his prints; he as well designed and modelled Neoclassical ceramics for Josiah Wedgwood for several years. Johann Gottfried Schadow and his son Rudolph, one of the few Neoclassical sculptors to die young, were the leading High german artists,^[31] with Franz Anton von Zauner in Austria. The late Baroque Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt turned to Neoclassicism in mid-career, shortly earlier he appears to accept suffered some kind of mental crisis, subsequently which he retired to the country and devoted himself to the highly distinctive "character heads" of bald figures pulling extreme facial expressions.^[32] Like Piranesi's Carceri, these enjoyed a neat revival of interest during the age of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century. The Dutch Neoclassical sculptor Mathieu Kessels studied with Thorvaldsen and worked well-nigh exclusively in Rome.

Since prior to the 1830s the U.s.a. did non accept a sculpture tradition of its own, save in the areas of tombstones, weathervanes and ship figureheads,^[33] the European Neoclassical fashion was adopted there, and information technology was to concord sway for decades and is exemplified in the sculptures of Horatio Greenough, Harriet Hosmer, Hiram Powers, Randolph Rogers and William Henry Rinehart.

Artemisia in mourning; past Philipp Jakob Scheffauer; 1794; marble; height: 50.two cm, width: thirty cm, depth: 5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Perseus with the head of Medusa; by Antonio Canova; 1804–1806; marble; height: 242.6 cm, width: 191.8 cm, depth: 102.9 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Filatrice; by Henry Kirke Brown; 1850; bronze; 50.8 10 xxx.5 10 20.three cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art

Architecture and the decorative arts [edit]

Neoclassical fine art was traditional and new, historical and modernistic, conservative and progressive all at the same time.^[35]

Neoclassicism first gained influence in England and France, through a generation of French art students trained in Rome and influenced by the writings of Winckelmann, and information technology was apace adopted by progressive circles in other countries such as Sweden, Poland and Russian federation. At first, classicizing decor was grafted onto familiar European forms, as in the interiors for Catherine 2'southward lover, Count Orlov, designed by an Italian builder with a team of Italian stuccadori: but the isolated oval medallions like cameos and the bas-relief overdoors hint of Neoclassicism; the effects are fully Italian Rococo.

A second Neoclassic wave, more severe, more than studied (through the medium of engravings) and more consciously archaeological, is associated with the height of the Napoleonic Empire. In France, the first phase of Neoclassicism was expressed in the "Louis XVI way", and the second in the styles chosen "Directoire" or Empire. The Rococo style remained popular in Italy until the Napoleonic regimes brought the new archaeological classicism, which was embraced every bit a political statement by immature, progressive, urban Italians with republican leanings.^{[ co-ordinate to whom? ]}

In the decorative arts, Neoclassicism is exemplified in Empire furniture made in Paris, London, New York, Berlin; in Biedermeier furniture made in Austria; in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's museums in Berlin, Sir John Soane'due south Bank of England in London and the newly congenital "capitol" in Washington, D.C.; and in Wedgwood's bas reliefs and "black basaltes" vases. The manner was international; Scots architect Charles Cameron created palatial Italianate interiors for the German language-born Catherine II the Groovy, in Russian St. Petersburg.

Indoors, Neoclassicism fabricated a discovery of the genuine classic interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum. These had begun in the late 1740s, simply just achieved a broad audition in the 1760s,^[36] with the first luxurious volumes of tightly controlled distribution of Le Antichità di Ercolano (The Antiquities of Herculaneum). The antiquities of Herculaneum showed that fifty-fifty the most classicizing interiors of the Baroque, or the most "Roman" rooms of William Kent were based on basilica and temple exterior compages turned outside in, hence their often bombastic appearance to mod eyes: pedimented window frames turned into golden mirrors, fireplaces topped with temple fronts. The new interiors sought to recreate an authentically Roman and genuinely interior vocabulary.

Techniques employed in the mode included flatter, lighter motifs, sculpted in low frieze-like relief or painted in monotones en camaïeu ("like cameos"), isolated medallions or vases or busts or bucrania or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques against backgrounds, perhaps, of "Pompeiian red" or pale tints, or rock colors. The style in French republic was initially a Parisian style, the Goût grec ("Greek style"), not a court style; when Louis Sixteen acceded to the throne in 1774, Marie Antoinette, his fashion-loving Queen, brought the "Louis XVI" style to court. However, at that place was no existent endeavor to employ the basic forms of Roman furniture until around the turn of the century, and furniture-makers were more likely to infringe from ancient architecture, merely as silversmiths were more likely to accept from aboriginal pottery and stone-carving than metalwork: "Designers and craftsmen ... seem to accept taken an almost perverse pleasance in transferring motifs from i medium to another".^[37]

From about 1800 a fresh influx of Greek architectural examples, seen through the medium of etchings and engravings, gave a new impetus to Neoclassicism, the Greek Revival. At the same fourth dimension the Empire style was a more grandiose wave of Neoclassicism in compages and the decorative arts. Mainly based on Imperial Roman styles, it originated in, and took its name from, the rule of Napoleon in the First French Empire, where it was intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and the French state. The manner corresponds to the more bourgeois Biedermeier mode in the German-speaking lands, Federal style in the Usa,^[36] the Regency style in Britain, and the Napoleon mode in Sweden. Co-ordinate to the art historian Hugh Honour "then far from being, as is sometimes supposed, the culmination of the Neoclassical motion, the Empire marks its rapid decline and transformation back once more into a mere antique revival, drained of all the high-minded ideas and force of conviction that had inspired its masterpieces".^[38] An earlier phase of the style was chosen the Adam style in Bully U.k. and "Louis Seize", or Louis XVI, in France.

Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic fine art through the 19th century and beyond—a abiding antonym to Romanticism or Gothic revivals —, although from the late 19th century on information technology had often been considered anti-mod, or fifty-fifty reactionary, in influential disquisitional circles.^{[ who? ]} The centres of several European cities, notably St. Petersburg and Munich, came to await much similar museums of Neoclassical architecture.

Gothic revival architecture (often linked with the Romantic cultural movement), a style originating in the 18th century which grew in popularity throughout the 19th century, contrasted Neoclassicism. Whilst Neoclassicism was characterized by Greek and Roman-influenced styles, geometric lines and gild, Gothic revival architecture placed an emphasis on medieval-looking buildings, often fabricated to take a rustic, "romantic" appearance.

France [edit]

Louis 16 style (1760-1789) [edit]

It marks the transition from Rococo to Classicism. Unlike the Classicism of Louis XIV, which transformed ornaments into symbols, Louis XVI manner represents them equally realistic and natural as possible, ie laurel branches actually are laurel branches, roses the same, and so on. One of the main decorative principles is symmetry. In interiors, the colours used are very bright, including white, light grayness, brilliant blue, pink, yellowish, very low-cal lilac, and gold. Excesses of ornamentation are avoided.^[forty] The return to antiquity is synonymous with higher up all with a render to the straight lines: strict verticals and horizontals were the guild of the day. Serpentine ones were no longer tolerated, save for the occasional half circumvolve or oval. Interior decor also honored this taste for rigor, with the result that apartment surfaces and correct angles returned to style. Decoration was used to mediate this severity, only it never interfered with basic lines and always was disposed symmetrically around a central axis. Fifty-fifty then, ébénistes often canted fore-angles to avoid excessive rigidity.^[41]

The decorative motifs of Louis 16 style were inspired by antiquity, the Louis Fourteen style, and nature. Characteristic elements of the style: a torch crossed with a sheath with arrows, imbricated disks, guilloché, double bow-knots, smoking braziers, linear repetitions of small motifs (rosettes, beads, oves), trophy or floral medallions hanging from a knotted ribbon, acanthus leaves, gadrooning, interlace, meanders, cornucopias, mascarons, Ancient urns, tripods, perfume burners, dolphins, ram and lion heads, chimeras, and gryphons. Greco-Roman architectural motifs are also very used: flutings, pilasters (fluted and unfluted), fluted balusters (twisted and directly), columns (engaged and unengaged, sometimes replaced by caryathids), volute corbels, triglyphs with guttae (in relief and trompe-50'œil).^[42]

Primal pavilion of the École Militaire (Paris), 1752, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel^[44]
Big vase; 1783; difficult porcelain and gilt bronze; height: 2 thousand, bore: 0.ninety m; Louvre
Roll-top desk of Marie-Antoinette; by Jean-Henri Riesener; 1784; oak and pine frame, sycamore, amaranth and rosewood veneer, bronze gilded; 103.6 x 113.4 cm; Louvre^[51]
Writing table of Marie-Antoinette; by Adam Weisweiler; 1784; oak, ebony and sycamore veneer, Japanese lacquer, steel, bronze gilt; 73.7 x 81. 2 cm; Louvre^[52]
Ewer; 1784–1785; silver; summit: 32.nine cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Folding stool (pliant); 1786; carved and painted beechwood, covered in pink silk; 46.4 × 68.6 × 51.four cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pair of vases; 1789; difficult-paste porcelain, gilt statuary, marble; height (each): 23 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Fine art
Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI'due south Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud; 1788; carved and gilded walnut, aureate brocaded silk (not original); overall: 100 × 74.9 × 65.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Fine art

Empire mode (1804-1815) [edit]

It representative for the new French lodge that has exited from the revolution which fix the tone in all life fields, including art. The Jacquard machine is invented during this menstruum (which revolutionises the unabridged sewing system, manual until then). One of the dominant colours is red, busy with gilt bronze. Bright colours are also used, including white, foam, violet, brownish, bleu, dark cerise, with little ornaments of gilt bronze. Interior architecture includes forest panels decorated with golden reliefs (on a white background or a coloured i). Motifs are placed geometrically. The walls are covered in stuccos, wallpaper pr fabrics. Fireplace mantels are fabricated of white marble, having caryatids at their corners, or other elements: obelisks, sphinxes, winged lions, and so on. Bronze objects were placed on their tops, including mantel clocks. The doors consist of simple rectangular panels, decorated with a Pompeian-inspired key effigy. Empire fabrics are damasks with a bleu or dark-brown background, satins with a greenish, pink or regal background, velvets of the same colors, brooches broached with gold or silver, and cotton fabrics. All of these were used in interiors for curtains, for covering sure article of furniture, for cushions or upholstery (leather is also used for upholstery).^[53]

All Empire decoration is governed past a rigorous spirit of symmetry reminiscent of the Louis XIV style. Generally, the motifs on a piece's right and left sides correspond to one another in every detail; when they don't, the individual motifs themselves are entirely symmetrical in composition: antique heads with identical tresses falling onto each shoulder, frontal figures of Victory with symmetrically arrayed tunics, identical rosettes or swans flanking a lock plate, etc. Similar Louis XIV, Napoleon had a set of emblems unmistakably associated with his rule, almost notably the eagle, the bee, stars, and the initials I (for Imperator) and N (for Napoleon), which were usually inscribed within an imperial laurel crown. Motifs used include: figures of Victory bearing palm branches, Greek dancers, nude and draped women, figures of antique chariots, winged putti, mascarons of Apollo, Hermes and the Gorgon, swans, lions, the heads of oxen, horses and wild beasts, butterflies, claws, winged chimeras, sphinxes, bucrania, sea horses, oak wreaths knotted by thin abaft ribbons, climbing grape vines, poppy rinceaux, rosettes, palm branches, and laurel. There's a lot of Greco-Roman ones: stiff and apartment acanthus leaves, palmettes, cornucopias, beads, amphoras, tripods, imbricated disks, caduceuses of Mercury, vases, helmets, burning torches, winged trumpet players, and ancient musical instruments (tubas, rattles and particularly lyres). Despite their antique derivation, the fluting and triglyphs so prevalent nether Louis 16 are abandoned. Egyptian Revival motifs are especially common at the outset of the flow: scarabs, lotus capitals, winged disks, obelisks, pyramids, figures wearing nemeses, caryatids en gaine supported by bare feet and with women Egyptian headdresses.^[54]

Washstand (athénienne or lavabo); 1800–1814; legs, base and shelf of yew forest, gilt-bronze mounts, iron plate beneath shelf; height: 92.iv cm, width: 49.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Desk-bound chair (fauteuil de bureau); 1805–1808; mahogany, gilt bronze and satin-velvet upholstery; 87.6 × 59.7 × 64.eight cm; Metropolitan Museum of Fine art
Clock with Mars and Venus; circa 1810; gilded bronze and patina; top: 90 cm; Louvre
Carpeting; 1814–1830; 309.9 × 246.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Britain [edit]

Adam fashion [edit]

The Adam style was created past two brothers, Adam and James, who published in 1777 a volume of etchings with interior decoration. In the interior decoration made subsequently Robert Adam's drawings, the walls, ceilings, doors, and any other surface, are divided into big panels: rectangular, circular, foursquare, with stuccos and Greco-Roman motifs at the edges. Ornaments used include festoons, pearls, egg-and-dart bands, medallions, and any other motifs used during the Classical antiquity (peculiarly the Etruscan ones). Decorative fittings such equally urn-shaped rock vases, gilded silverware, lamps, and stauettes all have the same source of inspiration, classical antiquity.

The Adam style emphasizes refined rectangular mirrors, framed like paintings (in frames with stylised leafs), or with a pediment higher up them, supporting an urn or a medallion. Another design of Adam mirrors is shaped similar a Venetian window, with a large fundamental mirror between two other thinner and longer ones. Some other type of mirrors are the oval ones, normally decorated with festoons. The furniture in this mode has a similar structure to Louis XVI furniture.^[58]

Rectangular mirror with a small urn at the meridian; by Robert Adam; 1765; carved and painted pine and glass; overall: 355.six × 190.5 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
The Hall (Osterley Park), 1767, by Robert Adam^[61]
Carpet; by Robert Adam; 1770–1780; knotted wool; 505.v ten 473.ane cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Urn on pedestal; circa 1780 with latter additions; by Robert Adam; inlaid mahogany; height: 49.viii cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Side table with many acanthus leafs and two bucrania; by Robert Adam; circa 1780 with later addition; mahogany; overall: 88.half dozen × 141.3 × 57.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art

The United States [edit]

Federal fashion [edit]

On the American continent, architecture and interior ornament have been highly influenced by the styles developed in Europe. The French taste has highly marked its presence in the southern states (afterwards the French Revolution some emigrants accept moved here, and in Canada a large part of the population has French origins). The practical spirit and the material state of affairs of the Americans at that fourth dimension gave the interiors a typic atmosphere. All the American article of furniture, carpets, tableware, ceramic, and silverware, with all the European influences, and sometimes Islamic, Turkish or Asian, were made in conformity with the American norms, gustation, and functional requirements. There have existed in the US a period of the Queen Anne style, and an Chippendale 1. A mode of its own, the Federal fashion, has developed completely in the 18th and early 19th centuries, which has flourished being influenced by Britannic taste. Under the impulse of Neoclassicism, architecture, interiors, and article of furniture take been created. The style, although information technology has numerous characteristics which differ from state to state, is unitary. The structures of architecture, interiors, and furniture are Classicist, and incorporate Baroque and Rococo influences. The shapes used include rectangles, ovals, and crescents. Stucco or wooden panels on walls and ceilings reproduce Classicist motifs. Furniture tend to be decorated with floral marquetry and statuary or brass inlays (sometimes gold).^[62]

Candlestand; 1790-1800; mahogany, birch, and various inlays; 107 10 49.21 x 48.nine cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Writing desk; 1790-1810; satinwood, mahogany, tulip poplar, and pino; 153.67 x 90.17 ten 51.44 cm; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Armchair; perhaps past Ephraim Haines; 1805-1815; mahogany and pikestaff; superlative: 84.77 cm, width: 52.07 cm; Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art
Four-cavalcade pedestal card table with pineapple finial; 1815-1820; mahogany, tulip poplar, and pine wood; 74.93 x 92.71 x 46.67 cm; Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art

Gardens [edit]

In England, Augustan literature had a direct parallel with the Augustan way of landscape blueprint. The links are conspicuously seen in the piece of work of Alexander Pope. The all-time surviving examples of Neoclassical English gardens are Chiswick House, Stowe House and Stourhead.^[63]

Neoclassicism and mode [edit]

In fashion, Neoclassicism influenced the much greater simplicity of women'south dresses, and the long-lasting fashion for white, from well before the French Revolution, merely information technology was not until after it that thorough-going attempts to imitate ancient styles became fashionable in France, at least for women. Classical costumes had long been worn by fashionable ladies posing as some figure from Greek or Roman myth in a portrait (in particular at that place was a rash of such portraits of the young model Emma, Lady Hamilton from the 1780s), just such costumes were merely worn for the portrait sitting and masquerade balls until the Revolutionary catamenia, and maybe, similar other exotic styles, as undress at abode. But the styles worn in portraits by Juliette Récamier, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Thérésa Tallien and other Parisian trend-setters were for going-out in public as well. Seeing Mme Tallien at the opera, Talleyrand quipped that: "Il n'est pas possible de southward'exposer plus somptueusement!" ("1 could not be more than sumptuously undressed"). In 1788, merely earlier the Revolution, the court portraitist Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun had held a Greek supper where the ladies wore plain white Grecian tunics.^[64] Shorter classical hairstyles, where possible with curls, were less controversial and very widely adopted, and hair was now uncovered even outdoors; except for evening dress, bonnets or other coverings had typically been worn even indoors before. Thin Greek-style ribbons or fillets were used to tie or decorate the pilus instead.

Very light and loose dresses, commonly white and ofttimes with shockingly bare arms, rose sheer from the talocrural joint to but below the bodice, where at that place was a strongly emphasized sparse hem or tie round the body, ofttimes in a different color. The shape is now often known every bit the Empire silhouette although it predates the Commencement French Empire of Napoleon, but his first Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais was influential in spreading it effectually Europe. A long rectangular shawl or wrap, very frequently evidently cherry but with a decorated border in portraits, helped in colder weather, and was plainly laid effectually the midriff when seated—for which sprawling semi-recumbent postures were favoured.^[65] By the start of the 19th century, such styles had spread widely across Europe.

Neoclassical fashion for men was far more problematic, and never really took off other than for hair, where it played an important role in the shorter styles that finally despatched the utilize of wigs, and then white hair-powder, for younger men. The trouser had been the symbol of the barbaric to the Greeks and Romans, but outside the painter'southward or, especially, the sculptor'south studio, few men were prepared to abandon it. Indeed, the menses saw the triumph of the pure trouser, or pantaloon, over the culotte or knee-breeches of the Ancien Régime. Even when David designed a new French "national costume" at the request of the government during the pinnacle of the Revolutionary enthusiasm for changing everything in 1792, it included fairly tight leggings nether a coat that stopped above the knee. A loftier proportion of well-to-do young men spent much of the fundamental menstruum in military service because of the French Revolutionary Wars, and military compatible, which began to emphasize jackets that were brusque at the front, giving a total view of tight-plumbing fixtures trousers, was ofttimes worn when non on duty, and influenced civilian male styles.

The trouser-trouble had been recognised by artists equally a barrier to creating contemporary history paintings; like other elements of contemporary dress they were seen equally irredeemably ugly and unheroic past many artists and critics. Various stratagems were used to avert depicting them in modernistic scenes. In James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra (1758) by Gavin Hamilton, the two gentleman antiquaries are shown in toga-like Arab robes. In Watson and the Shark (1778) by John Singleton Copley, the main figure could plausibly exist shown nude, and the limerick is such that of the 8 other men shown, just one shows a unmarried breeched leg prominently. Still the Americans Copley and Benjamin Westward led the artists who successfully showed that trousers could be used in heroic scenes, with works like West's The Decease of General Wolfe (1770) and Copley'due south The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781 (1783), although the trouser was even so existence advisedly avoided in The Raft of the Medusa, completed in 1819.

Classically inspired male hair styles included the Bedford Crop, arguably the precursor of most plain mod male styles, which was invented past the radical pol Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford every bit a protest confronting a tax on hair powder; he encouraged his friends to adopt information technology by betting them they would not. Another influential style (or group of styles) was named by the French "à la Titus" after Titus Junius Brutus (not in fact the Roman Emperor Titus as frequently assumed), with hair short and layered but somewhat piled up on the crown, often with restrained quiffs or locks hanging downwards; variants are familiar from the pilus of both Napoleon and George IV of the Great britain. The manner was supposed to have been introduced by the histrion François-Joseph Talma, who upstaged his wigged co-actors when actualization in productions of works such as Voltaire's Brutus (almost Lucius Junius Brutus, who orders the execution of his son Titus). In 1799 a Parisian style magazine reported that even baldheaded men were adopting Titus wigs,^[66] and the style was also worn by women, the Periodical de Paris reporting in 1802 that "more one-half of elegant women were wearing their pilus or wig à la Titus.^[67]

Later Neoclassicism [edit]

In American architecture, Neoclassicism was i expression of the American Renaissance move, ca. 1890–1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its final large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the architectural community as being backward thinking and old fashioned in its design), and the American Museum of Natural History's Roosevelt Memorial. These were considered stylistic anachronisms when they were finished. In the British Raj, Sir Edwin Lutyens' awe-inspiring city planning for New Delhi marks the sunset of Neoclassicism. World War II was to shatter most longing for (and simulated of) a mythical time.

Conservative modernist architects such as Auguste Perret in French republic kept the rhythms and spacing of columnar architecture even in factory buildings. Where a colonnade would take been decried every bit "reactionary", a edifice'due south pilaster-like fluted panels under a repeating frieze looked "progressive". Pablo Picasso experimented with classicizing motifs in the years immediately following World State of war I, and the Art Deco style that came to the fore following the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, often drew on Neoclassical motifs without expressing them overtly: astringent, blocky commodes by É.-J. Ruhlmann or Süe & Mare; crisp, extremely low-relief friezes of damsels and gazelles in every medium; fashionable dresses that were draped or cut on the bias to recreate Grecian lines; the art dance of Isadora Duncan; the Streamline Moderne styling of U.Due south. post offices and canton court buildings built as late every bit 1950; and the Roosevelt dime.

There was an entire 20th-century movement in the Arts which was also called Neoclassicism. Information technology encompassed at to the lowest degree music, philosophy and literature. It was between the end of Globe War I and the end of Globe War Two. (For information on the musical aspects, see 20th-century classical music and Neoclassicism in music. For data on the philosophical aspects, see Not bad Books.)

This literary Neoclassical movement rejected the extreme romanticism of (for example) Dada, in favour of restraint, religion (specifically Christianity) and a reactionary political program. Although the foundations for this movement in English literature were laid by T. E. Hulme, the near famous Neoclassicists were T. Southward. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis. In Russia, the movement crystallized every bit early on as 1910 under the name of Acmeism, with Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelshtam every bit the leading representatives.

In music [edit]

Neoclassicism in music is a 20th-century motion; in this case it is the Classical and Baroque musical styles of the 17th and 18th centuries, with their fondness for Greek and Roman themes, that were existence revived, not the music of the ancient globe itself. (The early 20th century had not yet distinguished the Baroque period in music, on which Neoclassical composers mainly drew, from what we now call the Classical period.) The motility was a reaction in the offset role of the 20th century to the disintegrating chromaticism of belatedly-Romanticism and Impressionism, emerging in parallel with musical Modernism, which sought to abandon key tonality birthday. Information technology manifested a desire for cleanness and simplicity of style, which allowed for quite anomalous paraphrasing of classical procedures, only sought to blow abroad the cobwebs of Romanticism and the twilit glimmerings of Impressionism in favour of bold rhythms, assertive harmony and groomed exclusive forms, coinciding with the faddy for reconstructed "classical" dancing and costume in ballet and physical education.

The 17th-18th century dance suite had had a minor revival before World War I but the Neoclassicists were not altogether happy with unmodified diatonicism, and tended to emphasise the bright racket of suspensions and ornaments, the angular qualities of 17th-century modal harmony and the energetic lines of countrapuntal part-writing. Respighi'due south Ancient Airs and Dances (1917) led the way for the sort of sound to which the Neoclassicists aspired. Although the do of borrowing musical styles from the by has not been uncommon throughout musical history, art musics have gone through periods where musicians used modern techniques coupled with older forms or harmonies to create new kinds of works. Notable compositional characteristics are: referencing diatonic tonality, conventional forms (dance suites, concerti grossi, sonata forms, etc.), the idea of absolute music untramelled by descriptive or emotive associations, the use of light musical textures, and a conciseness of musical expression. In classical music, this was most notably perceived between the 1920s and the 1950s. Igor Stravinsky is the best-known composer using this style; he effectively began the musical revolution with his Bach-like Octet for Air current Instruments (1923). A item individual work that represents this style well is Prokofiev's Classical Symphony No. ane in D, which is reminiscent of the symphonic style of Haydn or Mozart. Neoclassical ballet equally innovated by George Balanchine de-cluttered the Russian Imperial style in terms of costume, steps and narrative, while too introducing technical innovations.

Architecture in Russia and the Soviet Union [edit]

In 1905–1914 Russian architecture passed through a brief just influential period of Neoclassical revival; the trend began with recreation of Empire style of alexandrine period and quickly expanded into a variety of neo-Renaissance, Palladian and modernized, yet recognizably classical schools. They were led by architects born in the 1870s, who reached creative superlative before World War I, similar Ivan Fomin, Vladimir Shchuko and Ivan Zholtovsky. When economic system recovered in the 1920s, these architects and their followers continued working in primarily modernist surround; some (Zholtovsky) strictly followed the classical canon, others (Fomin, Schuko, Ilya Golosov) developed their own modernized styles.^[68]

With the crackdown on architects independence and official denial of modernism (1932), demonstrated by the international competition for the Palace of Soviets, Neoclassicism was instantly promoted as one of the choices in Stalinist architecture, although not the only choice. It coexisted with moderately modernist compages of Boris Iofan, bordering with contemporary Fine art Deco (Schuko); again, the purest examples of the style were produced by Zholtovsky school that remained an isolated phenomena. The political intervention was a disaster for constructivist leaders yet was sincerely welcomed by architects of the classical schools.

Neoclassicism was an like shooting fish in a barrel choice for the USSR since it did not rely on modernistic construction technologies (steel frame or reinforced concrete) and could be reproduced in traditional masonry. Thus the designs of Zholtovsky, Fomin and other old masters were easily replicated in remote towns under strict material rationing. Improvement of construction engineering after Globe War II permitted Stalinist architects to venture into skyscraper construction, although stylistically these skyscrapers (including "exported" architecture of Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw and the Shanghai International Convention Eye) share little with the classical models. Neoclassicism and neo-Renaissance persisted in less demanding residential and office projects until 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev put an end to expensive Stalinist architecture.

Architecture in the 21st century [edit]

After a lull during the menses of mod architectural say-so (roughly post-Globe War Two until the mid-1980s), Neoclassicism has seen something of a resurgence.

Every bit of the beginning decade of the 21st century, contemporary Neoclassical compages is usually classed under the umbrella term of New Classical Compages. Sometimes it is too referred to as Neo-Historicism or Traditionalism.^[69] Also, a number of pieces of postmodern architecture draw inspiration from and include explicit references to Neoclassicism, Antigone District and the National Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona amongst them. Postmodern architecture occasionally includes historical elements, similar columns, capitals or the tympanum.

For sincere traditional-style compages that sticks to regional architecture, materials and adroitness, the term Traditional Architecture (or colloquial) is mostly used. The Driehaus Architecture Prize is awarded to major contributors in the field of 21st century traditional or classical architecture, and comes with a prize coin twice as high as that of the modernist Pritzker Prize.^[lxx]

In the United States, various contemporary public buildings are congenital in Neoclassical style, with the 2006 Schermerhorn Symphony Eye in Nashville being an example.

In Britain, a number of architects are active in the Neoclassical style. Examples of their work include two university libraries: Quinlan Terry's Maitland Robinson Library at Downing College and Robert Adam Architects' Sackler Library.

Notes [edit]

^ "Etymology of the English language discussion "neo-classical"". myetymology.com. Retrieved 2016-05-09 .
^ Stevenson, Angus (2010-08-19). Oxford Dictionary of English language. ISBN9780199571123.
^ Kohle, Hubertus (August 7, 2006). "The road from Rome to Paris. The birth of a modern Neoclassicism". Jacques Louis David. New perspectives.
^ Irwin, David G. (1997). Neoclassicism A&I (Art and Ideas) . Phaidon Press. ISBN978-0-7148-3369-9.
^ Honour, 17-25; Novotny, 21
^ A recurring theme in Clark: xix-23, 58-62, 69, 97-98 (on Ingres); Honor, 187-190; Novotny, 86-87
^ Lingo, Estelle Cecile (2007). François Duquesnoy and the Greek ideal. Yale University Press; Starting time Edition. pp. 161. ISBN978-0-300-12483-5.
^ Talbott, Page (1995). Classical Savannah: fine & decorative arts, 1800-1840. Academy of Georgia Press. p. half-dozen. ISBN978-0-8203-1793-nine.
^ Cunningham, Reich, Lawrence S., John J. (2009). Culture and values: a survey of the humanities. Wadsworth Publishing; 7 edition. p. 104. ISBN978-0-495-56877-3.
^ Laurels, 57-62, 61 quoted
^ Both quotes from the first pages of "Thoughts on the False of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture"
^ Dyson, Stephen L. (2006). In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Yale Academy Press. pp. xii. ISBN978-0-300-11097-5.
^ Accolade, 21
^ Honour, xi, 23-25
^ Honour, 44-46; Novotny, 21
^ Honour, 43-62
^ Clark, 20 (quoted); Honour, xiv; image of the painting (in fairness, other works by Mengs are more than successful)
^ Accolade, 31-32 (31 quoted)
^ Laurels, 113-114
^ Honour, xiv
^ Novotny, 62
^ Novotny, 51-54
^ Clark, 45-58 (47-48 quoted); Honour, l-57
^ Award, 34-37; Clark, 21-26; Novotny, nineteen-22
^ Novotny, 39-47; Clark, 97-145; Honour, 187-190
^ Novotny, 378
^ Novotny, 378–379
^ Chinard, Gilbert, ed., Houdon in America Arno PressNy, 1979, a reprint of a book published by Johns Hopkins University, 1930
^ Novotny, 379-384
^ Novotny, 384-385
^ Novotny, 388-389
^ Novotny, 390-392
^ Gerdts, William H., American Neo-Classic Sculpture: The Marble Resurrection, Viking Press, New York, 1973 p. eleven
^ ART ● Architecture ● Painting ● Sculpture ● Graphics ● Design. 2011. p. 313. ISBN978-1-4454-5585-3.
^ Palmer, Alisson Lee. Historical dictionary of neoclassical art and architecture. p. 1.
^ ^a ^b Gontar
^ Honour, 110–111, 110 quoted
^ Honor, 171–184, 171 quoted
^ Jones 2014, p. 273.
^ Graur, Neaga (1970). Stiluri în arta decorativă (in Romanian). Cerces. pp. 200, 201 & 202.
^ Sylvie, Chadenet (2001). French Piece of furniture • From Louis Xiii to Art Deco. Little, Brown and Company. p. 71.
^ Sylvie, Chadenet (2001). French Article of furniture • From Louis XIII to Art Deco. Petty, Brown and Company. p. 72.
^ de Martin 1925, p. 9.
^ de Martin 1925, p. xi.
^ Jones 2014, p. 276.
^ de Martin 1925, p. thirteen.
^ Jacquemart, Albert (2012). Decorative Fine art. Parkstone. p. 65. ISBN978-1-84484-899-7.
^ de Martin 1925, p. 17.
^ "Corner Cabinet - The Art Institute of Chicago".
^ de Martin 1925, p. 61.
^ Jacquemart, Albert (2012). Decorative Art. Parkstone. p. 61. ISBN978-1-84484-899-seven.
^ Jacquemart, Albert (2012). Decorative Fine art. Parkstone. p. 61. ISBN978-1-84484-899-7.
^ Graur, Neaga (1970). Stiluri în arta decorativă (in Romanaian). Cerces. pp. 217, 219, 220 & 221.
^ Sylvie, Chadenet (2001). French Furniture • From Louis Thirteen to Art Deco. Little, Brown and Visitor. p. 103 & 105.
^ Jones 2014, p. 275.
^ ^a ^b Hopkins 2014, p. 111.
^ Odile, Nouvel-Kammerer (2007). Symbols of Ability • Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Mode • 1800-1815. p. 209. ISBN978-0-8109-9345-7.
^ Graur, Neaga (1970). Stiluri în arta decorativă (in Romanian). Cerces. pp. 253, 255 & 256.
^ ^a ^b Hopkins 2014, p. 103.
^ Bailey 2012, pp. 226. sfn error: no target: CITEREFBailey2012 (assistance)
^ Fortenberry 2017, p. 274.
^ Graur, Neaga (1970). Stiluri în arta decorativă (in Romanaian). Cerces. pp. 269, 270, & 271.
^ Turner, Turner (2013). British gardens: history, philosophy and pattern, Chapter 6 Neoclassical gardens and landscapes 1730-1800. London: Routledge. p. 456. ISBN978-0415518789.
^ Hunt, 244
^ Hunt, 244-245
^ Hunt, 243
^ Rifelj, 35
^ "The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture". Content.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2012-02-12 .
^ "Neo-classicist Compages. Traditionalism. Historicism".
^ Driehaus Prize for New Classical Architecture at Notre Dame SoA – Together, the $200,000 Driehaus Prize and the $fifty,000 Reed Award correspond the most significant recognition for classicism in the gimmicky built environment.; retained March 7, 2014

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External links [edit]

Neoclassicism in the "History of Fine art"
"Neoclassicism Style Guide". British Galleries. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2007-07-17 .
Neo-classical drawings in the Flemish Art Drove
19th Century Sculpture Derived From Greek Hellenistic Influence: Jacob Ungerer
The Neoclassicising of Pompeii

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