NeoClassicism

all roads lead to Rome (and other ancient places)

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• Architecture:
  • Correct use of orders and architectural elements from antiquity
    • Columns, temple fronts, pediments, free standing porches
  • Influence of Palladio
• Simple, unadorned
• Purity
• Solid
• Contour, no modeling
• Unemotional
• Little color

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Inigo Jones Whitehall Banqueting House London 1619-1622
Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington) and William Kent Chiswick House near London 1725+
Thomas Jefferson Monticello Charlottesville 1770-1806
Flaxman Jupiter and Thetis engraving 1790s
Kauffman Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi 1785
Jacques Louis David Oath of the Horatii 1784
Jacques Louis David Death of Marat 1793
Soufflot Ste. Genevieve (Pantheon) 1755-1792
Canova Pauline Borghese as Venus 1808
Ingres Grand Odalisque 1814
Ingres Princesse de Broglie 1853

VOCAB

Allegory
Abbe Laugier, Essay on Architecture 1753
J.J. Winckelmann
The Grand Tour

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