HIST - Neoclassicism Flashcards
characterized by an intro and widespread use of Greek and Roman orders and decorative motifs; simple, strongly geometric compositions, and frequent shallowness of relief in the ornamental treatment of facades
Neoclassicism
art director of Napoleon; recorded the horrors of the period, mythology, and Napoleonic exploits
Jacques Louis David
wife of Louis XVI who reigned with him during Neoclassicism
Marie-Antoinette
known for his fondness for rich colors and textures; portrays the characteristics of Academic Painting: submerged brushstrokes, and smooth high finishes
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
greatest of the French classicists; sought the ideas of form and subject matter, of landscapes with figures of light with color and mood
Nicolas Poussin
considered to be the greatest of the 18th-century French painters; anti-rococo; favored simple still lives, and unsentimental domestic interiors; a realist painter of down-to-earth genre scenes
Jean Baptiste Chardin
displays sweeping grandeur of the idealization of the Neoclassic style
Antonio Canova
intended as a Pantheon by order of Napoleon, an imitation of a Greek colonnaded temple with a Roman style podium built in Neoclassical style; originally built as a church of Madeleine
The Madeleine by Pierre-Alexandre Vignon
patterned after a Greek cross plan with the famous dome derived from St. Peter’s; a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers; remodeled by Louis Le Van
Church of Les Invalides by Liberal Bruant, and Hardouin-Mansart
patterned after a Greek cross plan with the famous dome derived from St. Peter’s; a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers; remodeled by Louis Le Van
Church of Les Invalides by Liberal Bruant, and Hardouin-Mansart
the name is given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles between 1720 and 1840; the design of manors planned as simple symmetrical square or rectangular blocks with or without wings
Georgian Architecture
