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2 unusual facts about classicism


Classicism

Building off of these influences, the 17th-century architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren firmly established classicism in England.

Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

South of that, there is a main wing for the Prince-Archbishop, with its two representative Classic façades, which extends the entire width of the building.


Alojzy Feliński

Feliński was a representative of the classicism typical of the time after Stanisław Poniatowski’s reign.

Antiquities

The classicism of the Carolingian renaissance was in part inspired by appreciation of Late Antique manuscripts: the Utrecht Psalter attempts to recreate such a Late Antique original, both in its handwriting and its illustrations.

Antonio Isopi

Antonio Isopi (5 February 1758 – 3 October 1833) was a Roman sculptor of Classicism mainly working at the court of the Dukes (later Kings) of Württemberg.

Arthur Frank Mathews

He studied art in Paris at the Académie Julian from 1885 to 1889, where he was influenced by the academic classicism of his teachers Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre, the tonalism of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and the symbolism of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.

Colin Rowe

Between the 1950s and his death, Rowe published a number of widely influential papers that influenced architecture by further developing the theory that there is a conceptual relationship between modernity and tradition, specifically Classicism in its various manifestations, and Modern Movement "white architecture" of the 1920s - a viewpoint first put forward by Emil Kaufmann in his classic book "Von Ledoux bis Le Courbusier" (1933).

Dimitris Liantinis

Liantinis believed that Romanticism and Classicism were the only two "valid" world-views that constitute both an artistic style and a way of life.

Directoire style

Honour, Hugh, Neo-classicism. Style and Civilisation 1968,(Reprinted 1977)

Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter

He studied painting at Paris under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jacques-Louis David, and Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, and later went to Rome, where he improved his French classical style of painting by the study of Italian art.

Emil Kaufmann

He received his Ph.D. in 1920, writing his dissertation under Dvořák on the development of the architecture of Ledoux and classicism.

Figurative art

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), a French painter in the classical style whose work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color; served as an alternative to the more narrative Baroque style of the 17th century.

Flames of Paris

Flames of Paris (original Russian title Plamya Parizha) is a classical ballet with music by musicologist and composer Boris Asafyev based on songs of the French Revolution, and originally choreographed by Vasily Vainonen, with design by Vladimir Dmitriev.

François Mansart

François Mansart (13 January 1598 - 23 September 1666) was a French architect credited with introducing classicism into Baroque architecture of France.

French Baroque architecture

The classical tradition in French architecture was never overwhelmed, however, and the reaction in favor of classicism began as early as the 1740s in the Académie, in the atelier of Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni and among the young pensionnaires at the French Academy in Rome.

Futog

Futog Court, today Agricultural school (baroque-classicism), built by grof Andras Hadik in 1777, where few days before Sarajevo Attempt resided Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia Chotek, and also a place where German general August von Mackensen was prisoned in 1919.

Ged Quinn

He specialises in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images (generally on controversial topics in Western cultural history) in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

Greek art

Minoan prehistorical civilizations, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period).

H. T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Work Building

The front facade is sheathed in decorative silver and black painted worked sheet metal in an Edwardian Classicism style.

Hierarchy of genres

An influential formulation of 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism became the classic statement of the theory for the 18th century:Celui qui fait parfaitement des païsages est au-dessus d'un autre qui ne fait que des fruits, des fleurs ou des coquilles.

Jagdschloss Baum

Jagdschloss Baum was built between 1760 and 1761 by Count Wilhelm zu Schaumburg Lippe and is considered a prime example of late Baroque Classicism.

Johann Jakob Bodmer

His major writings are the treatises Von dem Wunderbaren in der Poesie (1740; this and following years link to corresponding "year in poetry" articles) and Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter (1741), in which he pleaded for the freedom of the imagination from the restriction imposed upon it by French pseudo-classicism.

Kunšperk

The architecture of the town today shows Classicist and Biedermeier features, as well as the work of local 18th- and 19th-century stone cutters.

Michel Henry

Michel Henry was a student of ancient painting and of the great classical painting which preceded the scientistic figuration of the 18th and 19th Centuries, and also of abstract creations such as those of the painter Wassily Kandinsky.

Museum Geelvinck-Hinlopen

The ceiling in the library is in a neo-classical style, resembling the work of the Scottish architect and interior decorator Robert Adam.

Nailia Galiamova

She chooses traditional genres, moderate stylistics (displaying features of neo-classicism and minimalism) and tonal harmonic language.

National Capital Authority

There was also interest in Classicism by English architects, including Edwin Lutyens, who was responsible for many of the public buildings in New Delhi built from 1912 to 1929 in the wake of the decision to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government.

Pompeo Batoni

Batoni befriended Winckelmann and, like him, aimed in his painting to the restrained classicism of painters from earlier centuries, such as Raphael and Poussin, rather than to the work of the Venetian artists then in vogue.

Rhys Chatham

During this period, he wrote several works for large guitar ensembles, including Drastic Classicism, a collaboration with dancer Karole Armitage.

Stadtkyll

Saint Joseph’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Joseph), Hauptstraße – Classicist aisleless church, 1853/1854, originally built in 1814 to Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s plans; burnt out in 1853.

Teófilo Braga

It was a work that borrowed directly for its base the themes from Victor Hugo's La Légende des siècles, and captured in verse all the essential classicism of Judaism and Christianity.

The English House

Domestic architecture of the late nineteenth century was a mix of classicism, renaissance and gothic styles and therefore needed redefinition.

The Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors

The repertoire includes a range of music styles, including Viennese Classicism, Romanticism and 20th-century classical music, including works by Polish composers.

Walsdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

Saint Arnulf’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Arnulf), Koblenzer Straße 16 – Classicist aisleless church, 1828.


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