PPT-Classicism

1700s1800s Also known as the or Definition Adherence to traditional standards such a simplicity restraint moderation and personal freedom that are universally and enduringly valid. Why does it seem that every entrance to a building on the Mary Washington campus has a classical portico and at the campus center there is a bell tower taller than anything else with arches, moldings, and pilasters?. Ecole. des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France). American architects. Richard Morris Hunt, Louis Sullivan, H.H. Richardson, William Robert Ware, Charles . Follen. . McKim. , Bernard . Maybeck. , Julia Morgan, Thomas Hastings . Inspired by a revived interest in the styles of classical antiquity in painting, sculpture, and architecture.. As a reaction to the excesses of monarchy during the Baroque and Rococo periods artist wanted to return order, reason, and structural clarity.. Renaissance-present. Rachel Black. While still medieval in nature, the Palazzo . Vecchio. and . Orsansmichele. exceeded all other buildings in Florence in the early 1300’s and marked the beginning of early renaissance architecture.. 1750-1820. Qualities of Classicism. Order. Objectivity. Proportion. Emulated the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. Greek architecture. The Greeks developed three architectural systems, called orders, . Test 2 . review. Test is . Thursday 6 November. Test Format. Same Mixture of images and questions to answer. Expect as many as 2/3 of the questions to involve images.. Thirty Questions. Classes to . be reviewed:. (1700s-1800s). (Also known as the Age of Reason or Rationalism). Definition. Adherence to traditional standards such a simplicity, restraint, moderation, and personal freedom that are universally and enduringly valid. Western . Europe. Eastern. Europe. Deësis. Mosaic (. Hagia. Sophia). Raphael, . The School of Athens . (1511). Characteristics . of Renaissance Art. Vivid. ,. . Bright. . Colors. Perspective. Depth, Realism. Neo-Classicism. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer. Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. Baroque. Art &. Architecture. Baroque. 1600 – 1750. From a Portuguese word “barocca”, . meaning “a pearl of irregular shape”. Modernism. More and more . artists & composers rejected the classical traditions . of art & music and . strove towards originality. . (why?). Avoiding classical harmony and forms . at all cost, they . Art produced in Europe and North America from the mid-18c to the early 19c.. Return to the perceived “purity” of the arts of Rome. Model the “ideal” of the ancient Greek arts and, to a lesser, extent, 16c Renaissance classicism.. The Flourishing of European Culture . In the midst of religious wars and growth of absolutism, European culture continued to flourish. . The Changing Faces of Art . The artistic Renaissance came to an end when a new movement called Mannerism emerged in Italy in the 1520s and 1530s. . INTRODUCTION. . Neo Classical age is basically defined as the imitation of classicism. Literally ‘neo’ means new and ‘classical’ refers to the style and works of the ancient writers of Greece and Rome. Together it refers to the rebirth or revival of classical learning.. . . . There are various causes that led to the rise of Neo-Classical criticism in the second half of the 17. th. century.. The excesses of the . Metaphysicals. -the followers of John Donne-naturally led to a revolt in favor of order, balance and sanity in literature. Their extravagant hyperboles, far-fetched and violent similes and metaphors, and ‘conceits’ elaborated to a fantastic extent, prepared the ground for neo-classicism with its emphasis on ‘correctness’, and ‘decorum’..