Neoclassical architecture is an
architectural style
An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...
produced by the
Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in
Italy and
France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the
Western world. The prevailing styles of architecture in most of Europe for the previous two centuries,
Renaissance architecture and
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe. It was originally introduced by the Catholic Church, particularly by the Jesuits, as a means ...
, already represented partial revivals of the
Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes even more specifically, from the works of the Roman architect ...
of
ancient Rome and (much less)
ancient Greek architecture
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greek-speaking people (''Hellenic'' people) whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC un ...
, but the Neoclassical movement aimed to strip away the excesses of Late Baroque and return to a purer and more authentic classical style, adapted to modern purposes.
The development of archaeology and published accurate records of surviving classical buildings was crucial in the emergence of Neoclassical architecture. In many countries, there was an initial wave essentially drawing on Roman architecture, followed, from about the start of the 19th century, by a second wave of
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
. This followed increased understanding of Greek survivals. As the 19th century continued, the style tended to lose its original rather austere purity in variants like the French
Empire style. The term "neoclassical" is often used very loosely for any building using some of the classical architectural vocabulary.
In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than
chiaroscuro and maintains separate identities to each of its parts. The style is manifested both in its details as a reaction against the
Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulae as an outgrowth of some classicizing features of the
Late Baroque architectural tradition. Therefore, the style is defined by symmetry, simple geometry, and social demands instead of ornament.
In the 21st century, a version of the style continues, sometimes called
New Classical architecture or New Classicism.
History
Neoclassical architecture is a specific style and moment in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that was specifically associated with the
Enlightenment,
empiricism, and the study of sites by early archaeologists. Classical architecture after about 1840 must be classified as one of a series of "revival" styles, such as Greek, Renaissance, or Italianate. Various historians of the 19th century have made this clear since the 1970s. Classical architecture during the twentieth century is classified less as a revival, and more a return to a style was decelerated with the advent of Modernism. Yet still Neoclassical architecture is beginning to be practiced again in twenty-first Century more in the form of
New Classical Architecture and even in
Gentrification
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. It is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and planning. Gentrification often increases the ec ...
and
Historicism Architecture, the Neoclassical architecture or its important elements are still being used, even when the
Postmodernist architecture
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the " grand narratives" of moderni ...
is dominant throughout the world.
Palladianism
A return to more classical architectural forms as a reaction to the
Rococo style can be detected in some European architecture of the earlier 18th century, most vividly represented in the
Palladian architecture of Georgian
Britain
Britain most often refers to:
* The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands
* Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...
and Ireland. The name refers to the designs of the 16th-century Venetian architect
Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of th ...
.
The
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including th ...
style had never truly been to the English taste. Four influential books were published in the first quarter of the 18th century which highlighted the simplicity and purity of classical architecture: ''
Vitruvius Britannicus'' by
Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer, credited as a founder of the Georgian style. For most of his career, he resided in Italy and England. As well as his architectural ...
(1715), Palladio's ''
I quattro libri dell'architettura'' (''The Four Books of Architecture'', 1715), ''
De re aedificatoria'' by
Leon Battista Alberti (first published in 1452) and ''The Designs of Inigo Jones... with Some Additional Designs'' (1727). The most popular was the four-volume ''Vitruvius Britannicus'' by Colen Campbell. The book contained architectural prints of famous British buildings that had been inspired by the great architects from Vitruvius to Palladio. At first the book mainly featured the work of
Inigo Jones, but the later tomes contained drawings and plans by Campbell and other 18th-century architects. Palladian architecture became well established in 18th-century Britain.
At the forefront of the new school of design was the aristocratic "architect earl",
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington; in 1729, he and
William Kent designed
Chiswick House. This house was a reinterpretation of Palladio's
Villa Capra "La Rotonda"
Villa La Rotonda is a Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza in northern Italy designed by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The villa's correct name is Villa Almerico Capra Valmarana, but it is also known as "La Rotonda", "Villa R ...
, but purified of 16th-century elements and ornament. This severe lack of ornamentation was to be a feature of Palladianism. In 1734, William Kent and Lord Burlington designed one of England's finest examples of Palladian architecture,
Holkham Hall in
Norfolk. The main block of this house followed Palladio's dictates quite closely, but Palladio's low, often detached, wings of farm buildings were elevated in significance.
This classicizing vein was also detectable, to a lesser degree, in the Late Baroque architecture in Paris, such as in the
Louvre Colonnade. This shift was even visible in Rome at the redesigned façade for
Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
The Archbasilica Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in the Lateran ( it, Arcibasilica del Santissimo Salvatore e dei Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano), also known as the Papa ...
.
Stourhead 1.gif, The east façade of Stourhead House, based on Palladio's Villa Emo
Villa Emo is one of the many creations conceived by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It is a patrician villa located in the Veneto region of northern Italy, near the village of Fanzolo di Vedelago, in the Province of Treviso. The p ...
Russborough-House Part-of-the-facade.jpg, Russborough House
Russborough House is a stately house near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland. Located between the towns of Blessington and Ballymore Eustace, it is an outstanding example of Palladian architecture, designed by Richard ...
( County Wicklow, Ireland) a notable example of Irish Palladianism, 1741–1755, by Richard Cassels
Woburn Abbey.jpg, Woburn Abbey ( Woburn, Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire (; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England. The county has been administered by three unitary authorities, Borough of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Borough of Luton, since Bedfordshire County Council was ...
, England), 1746, by Henry Flitcroft
Province House (Nova Scotia).jpg, Nova Scotia Legislature Building from Halifax ( Nova Scotia, Canada), 1819
Neoclassicism
By the mid-18th century, the movement broadened to incorporate a greater range of classical influences, including those from
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity ( AD 600), that comprised a loose collection of cult ...
. An early centre of neoclassicism was Italy, especially
Naples, where by the 1730s court architects such as
Luigi Vanvitelli
Luigi Vanvitelli (; 12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as (), was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an eas ...
and
Ferdinando Fuga were recovering classical, Palladian and
Mannerist forms in their Baroque architecture. Following their lead,
Giovanni Antonio Medrano
Giovanni Antonio Medrano (1703–1760) was a Sicilian born in Sciacca (rather than in Palermo) in 1703, and who had entered the service of Spain in 1719 as a Military Architect, although it is probable that he had already joined the army of th ...
began to build the first truly neoclassical structures in Italy in the 1730s. In the same period,
Alessandro Pompei
Count Alessandro Pompei (1705–1772) was an Italian architect and author of a prominent treatise on architecture: ''Cinque Ordini dell’ Architettura Civile di Michele Sanmicheli'' or ''Five Orders of the Civic Architecture of Michele Sanmic ...
introduced neoclassicism to the
Venetian Republic, building one of the first
lapidarium
A lapidarium is a place where stone (Latin: ) monuments and fragments of archaeological interest are exhibited.
They can include stone epigraphs; statues; architectural elements such as columns, cornices, and acroterions; bas reliefs, tombsto ...
s in Europe in Verona, in the
Doric style
The Doric order was one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Doric is most easily recognized by the simple circular capitals at the top of ...
(1738). During the same period, neoclassical elements were introduced to
Tuscany by architect
Jean Nicolas Jadot de Ville-Issey, the court architect of
Francis Stephen of Lorraine
Francis I (Francis Stephen; french: François Étienne; german: Franz Stefan; 8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He became the ruler of the Holy ...
. On Jadot's lead, an original neoclassical style was developed by
Gaspare Maria Paoletti, transforming Florence into the most important centre of neoclassicism in the peninsula. In the second half of the century, Neoclassicism flourished also in Turin,
Milan (
Giuseppe Piermarini
Giuseppe Piermarini (; 18 July 1734 – 18 February 1808) was an Italian architect who trained with Luigi Vanvitelli in Rome and designed the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1776–78), which remains the work by which he is remembered. Indeed, "il P ...
) and
Trieste (
Matteo Pertsch). In the latter two cities, just as in Tuscany, the sober neoclassical style was linked to the reformism of the ruling
Habsburg enlightened monarchs.
The shift to neoclassical architecture is conventionally dated to the 1750s. It first gained influence in England and France; in England, Sir
William Hamilton's excavations at
Pompeii and other sites, the influence of the
Grand Tour, and the work of
William Chambers and
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...
, were pivotal in this regard. In France, the movement was propelled by a generation of French art students trained in Rome, and was influenced by the writings of
Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The style was also adopted by progressive circles in other countries such as Sweden and Russia.
International neoclassical architecture was exemplified in
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassic ...
's buildings, especially the
Altes Museum
The Altes Museum (English: ''Old Museum'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. Built from 1825 to 1830 by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it ...
in Berlin, Sir
John Soane
Sir John Soane (; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the R ...
's Bank of England in London and the newly built
White House and
Capitol
A capitol, named after the Capitoline Hill in Rome, is usually a legislative building where a legislature meets and makes laws for its respective political entity.
Specific capitols include:
* United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
* Numerou ...
in Washington, D.C. of the nascent
American Republic. The style was international. The
Baltimore Basilica
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, was the first Roman Catholic cathedral built in the United States, and was among the first major religious buildings constru ...
, which was designed by
Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1806, is considered one of the finest examples of neoclassical architecture in the world.
A second neoclassic wave, more severe, more studied and more consciously archaeological, is associated with the height of the
First French Empire. In France, the first phase of neoclassicism was expressed in the
Louis XVI style, and the second in the styles called
Directoire
The Directory (also called Directorate, ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by ...
and
Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
. Its major proponents were Percier and Fontaine, court architects who specialized in interior decoration.
In the decorative arts, neoclassicism is exemplified in French furniture of the Empire style; the English furniture of
Chippendale,
George Hepplewhite
George Hepplewhite (1727? – 21 June 1786) was a cabinetmaker. He is regarded as having been one of the "big three" English furniture makers of the 18th century, along with Thomas Sheraton and Thomas Chippendale. There are no pieces of furnit ...
and
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...
,
Wedgwood's
bas relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...
s and "black basaltes"
vase
A vase ( or ) is an open container. It can be made from a number of materials, such as ceramics, glass, non-rusting metals, such as aluminium, brass, bronze, or stainless steel. Even wood has been used to make vases, either by using tree species ...
s, and the
Biedermeier
The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...
furniture of Austria. The Scottish architect
Charles Cameron created palatial Italianate interiors for the German-born
Catherine II the Great in
Saint Petersburg.
File:West facade of Petit Trianon 002.JPG, West facade of the Petit Trianon ( Versailles, France)
File:Pantheon 1, Paris May 11, 2013.jpg, The Panthéon (Paris), 1758–1790
File:University of Virginia Rotunda in 2006.jpg, The Rotunda of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ...
, Virginia, US), by Thomas Jefferson and Stanford White
Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect. He was also a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms. He designed many houses for the rich, in addition ...
, 1826
File:Akademie von Athen.jpg, The Academy of Athens, 1859, by Theophil Hansen
File:Central facade of the Legislative Building.jpg, Legislative Building Manila
File:Oudenbosch Basiliek H. Agatha en H. Barbara 1.jpg, Oudenbosch Basilica
The Oudenbosch Basilica is a Roman Catholic basilica in the Netherlands, Dutch village of Oudenbosch. The basilica is named after Agatha of Sicily and Saint Barbara, Barbara of Nicomedia, two Christian martyrs from the third century. It was built a ...
, 1892 (Oudenbosch
Oudenbosch () is a town in the municipality of Halderberge in the west of the Dutch province of North Brabant. Oudenbosch is well known for its 'Basiliek', a Catholic church that is a smaller copy of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
History
The vi ...
, The Netherlands)
File:Concertgebouw from Museumplein 2539.jpg, Concertgebouw
The Royal Concertgebouw ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouw, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls in ...
, 1886 ( Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Interior design
Indoors, neoclassicism made a discovery of the genuine classic interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at
Pompeii and
Herculaneum. These had begun in the late 1740s, but only achieved a wide audience in the 1760s, with the first luxurious volumes of tightly controlled distribution of ''
Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte
The ''Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte'' (''Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed'') is an eight-volume book of engravings of the findings from excavating the ruins of Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples (now Italy). It was published between 1757 a ...
'' (''The Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed''). The antiquities of Herculaneum showed that even the most classicizing interiors of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including th ...
, or the most "Roman" rooms of
William Kent were based on
basilica
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name t ...
and
temple exterior architecture turned outside in, hence their often bombastic appearance to modern eyes:
pedimented window frames turned into
gilded mirrors, fireplaces topped with temple fronts.
The new interiors sought to recreate an authentically Roman and genuinely interior vocabulary. Techniques employed in the style included flatter, lighter motifs, sculpted in low
frieze
In architecture, the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor ...
-like relief or painted in monotones ''
en camaïeu'' ("like cameos"), isolated medallions or vases or busts or
bucrania
Bucranium (plural ''bucrania''; Latin, from Greek ''βουκράνιον'', referring to the skull of an ox) was a form of carved decoration commonly used in Classical architecture. The name is generally considered to originate with the practi ...
or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques against backgrounds, perhaps, of "Pompeiian red" or pale tints, or stone colours. The style in France was initially a Parisian style, the ''
goût grec
The French term ''goût grec'' (; "Greek taste") is often applied to the earliest expression of the Neoclassical style in France and refers specifically to the decorative arts and architecture of the mid-1750s to the late 1760s. The style was more ...
'' ("Greek taste"), not a court style; when
Louis XVI acceded to the throne in 1774,
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and ...
, his fashion-loving Queen, brought the
Louis XVI style to court. However, there was no real attempt to employ the basic forms of Roman furniture until around the turn of the century, and furniture-makers were more likely to borrow from ancient architecture, just as silversmiths were more likely to take from ancient pottery and stone-carving than metalwork: "Designers and craftsmen
..seem to have taken an almost perverse pleasure in transferring motifs from one medium to another".
A
new phase in neoclassical design was inaugurated by Robert and
James Adam, who travelled in Italy and Dalmatia in the 1750s, observing the ruins of the classical world. On their return to Britain, they published a book entitled ''The Works in Architecture'' in installments between 1773 and 1779. This book of engraved designs made the
Adam style
The Adam style (or Adamesque and "Style of the Brothers Adam") is an 18th-century neoclassical style of interior design and architecture, as practised by Scottish architect William Adam and his sons, of whom Robert (1728–1792) and James (173 ...
available throughout Europe. The Adam brothers aimed to simplify the
Rococo and
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including th ...
styles which had been fashionable in the preceding decades, to bring what they felt to be a lighter and more elegant feel to Georgian houses. ''The Works in Architecture'' illustrated the main buildings the Adam brothers had worked on and crucially documented the interiors, furniture and fittings, designed by the Adams.
File:Compiègne (60), palais, salon Bleu 3.jpg, The Blue Salon of the Château de Compiègne
The Château de Compiègne is a French château, a royal residence built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. Compiègne was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau. It is located in Compiègne ...
(Compiègne
Compiègne (; pcd, Compiène) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. It is located on the river Oise. Its inhabitants are called ''Compiégnois''.
Administration
Compiègne is the seat of two cantons:
* Compiègne-1 (with 1 ...
, France), an example of an Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
interior
File:Vaults of the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (10047443365).jpg, Detail of the ceiling of the Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (, , ; ) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the ''étoile'' ...
from Paris
File:Design for a Room in the Etruscan or Pompeian style (Elevation) MET DP804393.jpg, Design for a room in the Etruscan or Pompeian style, from 1833, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
File:Berlin Hotel Kaiserhof Speisesaal AS.jpg, Dining room of the Centralhotel (Berlin), designed in 1881 by von der Hude & Hennicke
File:Salle de lecture Bibliothèque Mazarine depuis gallerie.jpg, The Reading Room of the Bibliothèque Mazarine
The Bibliothèque Mazarine, or Mazarin Library, is located within the Palais de l'institut de France, or the Palace of the Institute of France (previously the Collège des Quatre-Nations of the University of Paris), at 23 quai de Conti in the 6t ...
(Paris)
Greek Revival
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. There was little direct knowledge of surviving Greek buildings before the middle of the 18th century in
Western Europe, when an expedition funded by the
Society of Dilettanti in 1751 and led by
James Stuart and
Nicholas Revett began serious archaeological enquiry. Stuart was commissioned after his return from Greece by George Lyttelton to produce the first Greek building in England, the garden temple at
Hagley Hall
Hagley Hall is a Grade I listed 18th-century house in Hagley, Worcestershire, the home of the Lyttelton family. It was the creation of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton (1709–1773), secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales, poet and man of letters a ...
(1758–59). A number of British architects in the second half of the century took up the expressive challenge of the Doric from their aristocratic patrons, including
Joseph Bonomi and
John Soane
Sir John Soane (; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the R ...
, but it was to remain the private enthusiasm of connoisseurs up to the first decade of the 19th century.
Seen in its wider social context, Greek Revival architecture sounded a new note of sobriety and restraint in public buildings in Britain around 1800 as an assertion of
nationalism attendant on the
Act of Union, the
Napoleonic Wars, and the clamour for political reform. It was to be
William Wilkins's winning design for the public competition for
Downing College, Cambridge, that announced the Greek style was to be the dominant idiom in architecture. Wilkins and
Robert Smirke went on to build some of the most important buildings of the era, including the
Theatre Royal,
Covent Garden (1808–1809), the General Post Office (1824–1829) and the
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documen ...
(1823–1848), Wilkins
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = � ...
(1826–1830) and the
National Gallery (1832–1838). In Scotland,
Thomas Hamilton (1784–1858), in collaboration with the artists
Andrew Wilson (1780–1848) and
Hugh William Williams
Hugh William Williams FRSE (1773–1829), known as "Grecian Williams," was a Scottish landscape painter.
Life
Williams was born onboard the ship of his father, Captain Williams, whilst en route to the West Indies. His mother, "Miss Lewis", die ...
(1773–1829) created monuments and buildings of international significance; the Burns Monument at Alloway (1818) and the (Royal) High School in Edinburgh (1823–1829).
At the same time the
Empire style in France was a more grandiose wave of neoclassicism in architecture and the decorative arts. Mainly based on Imperial Roman styles, it originated in, and took its name from, the rule of
Napoleon I in the
First French Empire, where it was intended to idealize Napoleon's leadership and the French state. The style corresponds to the more bourgeois
Biedermeier
The ''Biedermeier'' period was an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848 during which the middle class grew in number and the arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in ...
style in the German-speaking lands,
Federal style
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
in the United States, the
Regency style
Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style. The period co ...
in Britain, and the ''Napoleonstil'' in Sweden. According to the art historian
Hugh Honour "so far from being, as is sometimes supposed, the culmination of the Neo-classical movement, 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".
File:British Museum from NE 2 (cropped).JPG, British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documen ...
, London, by Robert Smirke, 1823-1847
File:Palais de Justice BORDEAUX.JPG, Bordeaux Courthouse, Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture ...
, France, unknown architect, 1839-1846
File:Edinburgh - Royal Scottish Academy Building - 20140421192731.jpg, Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art.
The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...
, Edinburgh, Scotland, unknown architect, unknown date
File:München BW 2017-03-15 19-06-19.jpg, Propyläen, Munich, Germany, by Leo von Klenze
Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784, Buchladen (Bockelah / Bocla) near Schladen – 26 January 1864, Munich) was a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, L ...
, finished in 1862
Austria reichsratssaal 2010.jpg, Austrian Parliament Building
The Austrian Parliament Building (german: Parlamentsgebäude, colloquially ''das Parlament'') in Vienna is where the two houses of the Austrian Parliament conduct their sessions. The building is located on the ''Ringstraße'' boulevard in the f ...
, Vienna, by Theophil Hansen, 1874-1883
File:Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal Bühne.jpg, Friedrich-von-Thiersch hall of the Kurhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1905-1907, by Friedrich von Thiersch
Friedrich Maximilian Thiersch, after 1897 Ritter von Thiersch (18 April 1852, Marburg – 23 December 1921, Munich), was a German architect and painter in the late Historicist style.
Life and work
His father, H. W. J. Thiersch, was a promine ...
Characteristics
High neoclassicism was an international movement. Architects reacted against the excesses and profuse ornament used in
Late Baroque architecture. The new "classical" architecture emphasized planar qualities, rather than elaborate sculptural ornament in both the interior and the exterior. Projections and recessions and their effects of
light and shade were more flat; sculptural bas-reliefs were flat and tended to be framed by friezes, tablets or panels. This was the first "stripped down" classical architecture, and appeared to be modern in the context of the Revolutionary period in Europe. At its most elemental, as in the work of
Etienne-Louis Boullée, it was highly abstract and geometrically pure.
Neoclassicism also influenced city planning. The ancient Romans had used a consolidated scheme for city planning for both defence and civil convenience; however, the roots of this scheme go back to even older civilizations. At its most basic, the
grid system of streets, a central forum with city services, two main slightly wider boulevards, and the occasional diagonal street were characteristic of the very logical and orderly Roman design. Ancient façades and building layouts were oriented to these city design patterns and they tended to work in proportion with the importance of public buildings.
Many of these
urban planning patterns found their way into the first modern
planned cities
A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve ...
of the 18th century. Exceptional examples include
Karlsruhe, Washington, D.C., Saint Petersburg, Buenos Aires, Havana, and Barcelona. Contrasting models may be found in Modernist designs exemplified by
Brasília
Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek o ...
, the
Garden city movement
The garden city movement was a 20th century urban planning movement promoting satellite communities surrounding the central city and separated with greenbelts. These Garden Cities would contain proportionate areas of residences, industry, and ...
, and
levittown
Levittown is the name of several large suburban housing developments created in the United States (including one in Puerto Rico) by William J. Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons. Built after World War II for returning white veterans and thei ...
s.
Regional trends
Great Britain and Ireland
From the middle of the 18th century, exploration and publication changed the course of British architecture towards a purer vision of the Ancient Greco-Roman ideal.
James 'Athenian' Stuart
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguati ...
's work ''The Antiquities of Athens and Other Monuments of Greece'' was very influential in this regard, as were
Robert Wood's ''Palmyra'' and ''Baalbec''. A combination of simple forms and high levels of enrichment was adopted by the majority of contemporary British architects and designers. The revolution begun by Stuart was soon to be eclipsed by the work of the
Adam brothers,
James Wyatt,
Sir William Chambers,
George Dance,
James Gandon
James Gandon (20 February 1743 – 24 December 1823) was an English architect best known for his work in Ireland during the late 18th century and early 19th century. His better known works include The Custom House and the surrounding Beresford ...
, and provincially based architects such as
John Carr and
Thomas Harrison of
Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...
.
In
Scotland and the north of England, where the
Gothic Revival was less strong, architects continued to develop the neoclassical style of
William Henry Playfair. The works of
Cuthbert Brodrick
Cuthbert Brodrick FRIBA (1 December 1821 – 2 March 1905) was a British architect, whose most famous building is Leeds Town Hall.
Early life
Brodrick was born in the Yorkshire port of Hull where his father was a well-to-do merchant and sh ...
and
Alexander Thomson
Alexander "Greek" Thomson (9 April 1817 – 22 March 1875) was an eminent Scottish architect and architectural theorist who was a pioneer in sustainable building. Although his work was published in the architectural press of his day, it was ...
show that by the end of the 19th century the results could be powerful and eccentric.
In
Ireland, where
Gothic Revival was also less popular, a refined, restrained form of the neoclassical developed, and can be seen in the works of
James Gandon
James Gandon (20 February 1743 – 24 December 1823) was an English architect best known for his work in Ireland during the late 18th century and early 19th century. His better known works include The Custom House and the surrounding Beresford ...
and other architects working at the time. It is particularly evident in
Dublin, which is a largely neoclassical and Georgian city.
File:The.circus.bath.arp.jpg, The Circus (Bath
Bath may refer to:
* Bathing, immersion in a fluid
** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
Plac ...
, Somerset
Somerset ( , ; Archaism, archaically Somersetshire , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the so ...
, England), 1754–1768, by John Wood, the Elder
John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath.
In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles. He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because of some ...
File:Harewood House The State Bedroom.jpg, Bedroom in Harewood House ( Harewood, West Yorkshire, England), 1759–1771, by Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...
File:Kedleston Hall 20080730-06.jpg, Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby. The medieval village of Kedleston was moved in 1759 by Nathaniel Curzon to mak ...
( Kedleston, Derbyshire, England) based on the Arch of Constantine in Rome, the 1760s, by Robert Adam
File:Syon House, Ante room, Gilded panels (2).jpg, Interior of Syon House (London) with Ionic columns and gilded statues, 1767–1775, by Robert Adam
File:Syon House, Dining room.jpg, Dining room of Syon House, with a complex ceiling
File:Archives Nationales Édimbourg 2.jpg, The General Register House
General Register House is an Adam style neoclassical building on Princes Street, Edinburgh, purpose built by Robert Adam between 1774 and 1788 as the headquarters of the National Archives of Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.
Archit ...
( Edinburgh, Scotland), 1774–1788, by Robert Adam
File:O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland.jpg, alt=View upwards of street buildings with green domed roofs, Buildings in Lower O'Connell Street ( Dublin) constructed between 1918 and 1923 in the highly refined and aesthetically restrained style typical of the Irish capital
File:Somerset House.jpg, The central courtyard of Somerset House (London), 1776, by Sir William Chambers
File:Chiswick - Obelisk & Ionic Temple (15298918976).jpg, Ionic Temple at the Chiswick House (London), an example of English landscape garden
The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (french: Jardin à l'anglaise, it, Giardino all'inglese, german: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, pt, Jardim inglês, es, Jardín inglés), is a sty ...
File:Dublin - General Post Office - 20181206094732.jpg, The Greek hexastyle portico of the General Post Office (Dublin) completed in 1818
File:St Georges Hall Liverpool 4 (6730033549).jpg, The western front of St George's Hall in Liverpool from St. John's Gardens
File:CustomHouseDublin.JPG, Dublin's Custom House
File:Parliament Buildings Stormont 2.jpg, Parliament Buildings, Northern Ireland (1933)
France
The first phase of
neoclassicism in France
Neoclassicism is a movement in architecture, design and the arts which was dominant in France between about 1760 to 1830. It emerged as a reaction to the frivolity and excessive ornament of the baroque and rococo styles. In architecture it featur ...
is expressed in the
Louis XV style
The Louis XV style or ''Louis Quinze'' (, ) is a style of architecture and decorative arts which appeared during the reign of Louis XV. From 1710 until about 1730, a period known as the Régence, it was largely an extension of the Louis XIV style ...
of architect
Ange-Jacques Gabriel
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (23 October 1698 – 4 January 1782) was the principal architect of King Louis XV of France. His major works included the Place de la Concorde, the École Militaire, and the Petit Trianon and opera theater at the Palace of V ...
(
Petit Trianon, 1762–1768); the second phase, in the styles called
Directoire
The Directory (also called Directorate, ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by ...
and
Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
, might be characterized by
Jean Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
Biography
His neoclassic orientation was established from his early studies with the prophet of neocl ...
's severe astylar
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (, , ; ) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile—the ''étoile'' ...
(designed in 1806). In England the two phases might be characterized first by the structures of
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...
, the second by those of Sir
John Soane
Sir John Soane (; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the R ...
. The interior style in France was initially a Parisian style, the "
Goût grec
The French term ''goût grec'' (; "Greek taste") is often applied to the earliest expression of the Neoclassical style in France and refers specifically to the decorative arts and architecture of the mid-1750s to the late 1760s. The style was more ...
" ("Greek style") not a court style. Only when the young king acceded to the throne in 1774 did
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and ...
, his fashion-loving Queen, bring the
Louis XVI style to court.
Many early 19th-century neoclassical architects were influenced by the drawings and projects of
Étienne-Louis Boullée and
Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. He used his knowledge of architectural theory to design not only domestic architecture but also town planning; as ...
. The many graphite drawings of Boullée and his students depict spare geometrical architecture that emulates the eternality of the universe. There are links between Boullée's ideas and
Edmund Burke's conception of the
sublime
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* SuBLime, a comic imprint of Viz Media for BL manga
* Sublime (band), an American ska punk band
** ''Sublime'' (album), 1996
* ''Sublime'' (film), a 2007 horror film
* SubLime FM, a Dutch radio station dedi ...
. Ledoux addressed the concept of architectural character, maintaining that a building should immediately communicate its function to the viewer: taken literally, such ideas give rise to
architecture parlante ("speaking architecture").
From about 1800 a fresh influx of Greek architectural examples, seen through the medium of etchings and engravings, gave a new impetus to neoclassicism that is called the
Greek Revival. Although several European cities – notably
Saint Petersburg,
Athens, Berlin and
Munich – were transformed into veritable museums of Greek revival architecture, the Greek Revival in France was never popular with either the state or the public.
Boudoir de la reine, Château de Fontainebleau.jpg, Boudoir de la Reine of the Palace of Fontainebleau ( Fontainbleau)
Pantheon 1, Paris May 11, 2013.jpg, The Panthéon (Paris), 1758–1790, by Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1713–1780) and Jean-Baptiste Rondelet
Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (4 June 1743 – 25 September 1829) was an architectural theorist of the late Enlightenment era and chief architect of the church of Sainte-Geneviève after the death of Jacques Germain Soufflot of cancer in 1780.
Ron ...
(1743–1829)
Château de Bagatelle, Paris 17 July 2016 004.jpg, Château de Bagatelle
The Château de Bagatelle is a small Neoclassical style château with several small formal French gardens, a rose garden, and an ''orangerie''. It is set on 59 acres of gardens in French landscape style in the Bois de Boulogne, which is loca ...
(Paris), a small Neoclassical château
A château (; plural: châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking regions.
Nowaday ...
, 1777, by François-Joseph Bélanger
François-Joseph Bélanger (; 12 April 1744 – 1 May 1818) was a French architect and decorator working in the Neoclassic style.
Life
Born in Paris, Bélanger attended the Académie Royale d'Architecture (1764–1766) where he studied ...
Bordeaux Grand Théâtre R03.jpg, Stairway of the Grand Theater of Bordeaux, 1780, by Victor Louis
Hôtel de Salm côté Seine Palais Légion d'Honneur Paris.jpg, The Palais de la Légion d'Honneur (Paris), 1782–1787, by Pierre Rousseau
Cabinet dore Marie-Antoinette Versailles.jpg, Cabinet doré of Marie-Antoinette
Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and ...
at the Palace of Versailles (1783)
Église de la Madeleine 3753x3156.jpg, Église de la Madeleine ( Paris), 1807–1828, by Pierre-Alexandre Vignon
File:Compiègne (60), palais, salon Bleu 3.jpg, The Blue Salon of the Château de Compiègne
The Château de Compiègne is a French château, a royal residence built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. Compiègne was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau. It is located in Compiègne ...
(Compiègne
Compiègne (; pcd, Compiène) is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. It is located on the river Oise. Its inhabitants are called ''Compiégnois''.
Administration
Compiègne is the seat of two cantons:
* Compiègne-1 (with 1 ...
), an example of an Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
interior
Château de Malmaison, France (48029730202).jpg, Empress's bedroom from the Château de Malmaison
The Château de Malmaison () is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about west of the centre of Paris, in the commune of Rueil-Malmaison.
Formerly the residence of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, along with the Tuileri ...
, another Empire interior
P1040409 Paris Ier colonne Vendôme rwk.JPG, The Vendôme Column
Vendôme (, ) is a subprefecture of the department of Loir-et-Cher, France. It is also the department's third-biggest commune with 15,856 inhabitants (2019).
It is one of the main towns along the river Loir. The river divides itself at the ...
(Paris), modelled after Trajan's Column, 1810
Musee Guimet en 2013 1.jpg, The Guimet Museum (Paris), by Jules Chatron
Greece
After the establishment of the
Kingdom of Greece in 1832, the architecture of Greece was mostly influenced by the Neoclassical architecture. For Athens, the first King of Greece,
Otto I, commissioned the architects
Stamatios Kleanthis
Stamatios or Stamatis Kleanthis ( el, Σταμάτιος or ; 1802–1862) was a Greek architect.
Biography
Stamatios Kleanthis was born to a Macedonian Greek family in the town of Velventos in Kozani, Macedonia in 1802. As a youth he moved ...
and
Eduard Schaubert
Gustav Eduard Schaubert ( el, Εδουάρδος Σάουμπερτ, translit=Edouárdos Sáoumpert) 27 July 1804, Breslau, Prussia – 30 March 1860, Breslau) was a Prussian architect, who made a major contribution to the re-planning of Athens ...
to design a modern city plan. The
Old Royal Palace was the first important public building to be built, between 1836 and 1843. Later, in the mid- and late 19th century,
Theophil von Hansen
Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen (; original Danish name: Theophilus Hansen ; 13 July 1813 – 17 February 1891) was a Danish architect who later became an Austrian citizen. He became particularly well known for his buildings and structures in A ...
and
Ernst Ziller
Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller ( el, Ερνέστος Τσίλλερ, ''Ernestos Tsiller''; 22 June 1837 – 4 November 1923) was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th c ...
took part in the construction of many neoclassical buildings. Theophil von Hansen designed his first building, the
National Observatory of Athens, and two of the three contiguous buildings forming the so-called "Athens Classical Trilogy", namely the
Academy of Athens (1859) and the
National Library of Greece
The National Library of Greece ( el, Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος, Ethnikí Vivliothíki tis Elládos) is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to ...
(1888), the third building of the trilogy being the
National and Capodistrian University of Athens (1843), which was designed by his brother
Christian Hansen. Also he designed the
Zappeion Hall (1888). Ernst Ziller also designed many private mansions in the centre of Athens which gradually became public, usually through donations, such the mansion of
Heinrich Schliemann,
Iliou Melathron (1880). The city of
Nauplio is also an important example of Neoclassical architecture along with the island of
Poros
Poros ( el, Πόρος) is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, about south from the port of Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the s ...
.
File:Griechisches Parlament.jpg, The Old Royal Palace, completed in 1843
File:Griechische Nationalbibliothek (Zuschnitt).jpg, The National Library of Greece
The National Library of Greece ( el, Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος, Ethnikí Vivliothíki tis Elládos) is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to ...
designed by Theophil von Hansen
Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen (; original Danish name: Theophilus Hansen ; 13 July 1813 – 17 February 1891) was a Danish architect who later became an Austrian citizen. He became particularly well known for his buildings and structures in A ...
(1888)
File:Akademie von Athen.jpg, The main building of the Academy of Athens, one of Theophil Hansen's "Trilogy" in central Athens (1859)
File:Universität von Athen.jpg, The National and Capodistrian University of Athens (1843)
File:Attica 06-13 Athens 27 Zappeion.jpg, The Zappeion (1888)
File:Ιλίου Μέλαθρον 6649.jpg, The Numismatic Museum of Athens
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.
Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also inclu ...
or Iliou Melathron built for Heinrich Schliemann by Ernst Ziller
Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller ( el, Ερνέστος Τσίλλερ, ''Ernestos Tsiller''; 22 June 1837 – 4 November 1923) was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th c ...
(1880)
File:Presidential Mansion in Athens.jpg, The Presidential Mansion
An official residence is the House, residence of a head of state, head of government, governor, Clergy, religious leader, leaders of international organizations, or other senior figure. It may be the same place where they conduct their work-relate ...
(formerly the Crown Prince's Palace) in Athens built by Ernst Ziller
Ernst Moritz Theodor Ziller ( el, Ερνέστος Τσίλλερ, ''Ernestos Tsiller''; 22 June 1837 – 4 November 1923) was a German-born university teacher and architect who later became a Greek national. In the late 19th and early 20th c ...
Hungary
The earliest examples of neoclassical architecture in Hungary may be found in
Vác
Vác (; german: Waitzen; sk, Vacov; yi, ווייצען) is a town in Pest county in Hungary with approximately 35,000 inhabitants. The archaic spelling of the name is ''Vácz''.
Location
Vác is located north of Budapest on the eastern bank o ...
. In this town the triumphal arch and the neoclassical façade of the Baroque Cathedral were designed by the French architect Isidor Marcellus Amandus Ganneval (Isidore Canevale) in the 1760s. Also the work of a French architect, Charles Moreau, is the garden façade of the
Esterházy Palace (1797–1805) in Kismarton (today
Eisenstadt
Eisenstadt (; hu, Kismarton; hr, Željezni grad; ; sl, Železno, Austro-Bavarian: ''Eisnstod'') is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It had a recorded population on 29 April 2021 of 15,074.
In the Habsburg Empire's Kingdom of ...
in Austria).
The two principal architects of Neoclassicism in Hungary were
Mihály Pollack and
József Hild. Pollack's major work is the
Hungarian National Museum (1837–1844). Hild is famous for his designs for the Cathedral of
Eger and
Esztergom. The
Reformed Great Church of Debrecen
The Reformed Great Church or Great Reformed Church in Debrecen ( hu, debreceni református nagytemplom) is located in the city of Debrecen. It stands in the city centre, between Kossuth square and Kálvin square. It is the symbol of the Protestant ...
is an outstanding example of the many Protestant churches that were built in the first half of the 19th century. This was the time of the first iron structures in Hungarian architecture, the most important of which is the
Chain Bridge (Budapest)
Chain bridges are suspension bridges built with chains. Some chain bridge built using this design have retained the name Chain Bridge. Thus as a proper noun, it may refer to:
In Hungary:
* Chain Bridge (Budapest), a bridge over the Danube in Bud ...
by
William Tierney Clark
William Tierney Clark FRS FRAS (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges.
Born in B ...
.
Malta
Neoclassical architecture was introduced in Malta in the late 18th century, during the final years of
Hospitaller rule. Early examples include the
Bibliotheca (1786), the
De Rohan Arch
The De Rohan Arch ( mt, Il-Bieb De Rohan; it, Porta De Rohan), also known as the New Gateway ( mt, Il-Bieb il-Ġdid), is a commemorative arch in Żebbuġ, Malta. It was built in 1798 to commemorate the locality's status as a city, which had bee ...
(1798) and the
Hompesch Gate
The Hompesch Gate ( mt, Il-Mina ta' Hompesch) is a commemorative arch in Żabbar, Malta. It was built in 1801 to commemorate the locality's status as a city, which had been granted by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim on 14 Septembe ...
(1801). However, neoclassical architecture only became popular in Malta following the
establishment of British rule in the early 19th century. In 1814, a neoclassical
portico decorated with the British coat of arms was added to the
Main Guard building so as to serve as a symbol of British Malta. Other 19th-century neoclassical buildings include the
Monument to Sir Alexander Ball (1810),
RNH Bighi (1832),
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral (1844), the
Rotunda of Mosta
The Sanctuary Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady ( mt, Santwarju Bażilika ta' Santa Marija), commonly known as the Rotunda of Mosta ( mt, Ir-Rotunda tal-Mosta) or the Mosta Dome, is a Roman Catholic parish church and Basilica in Mosta, Malta ...
(1860) and the now-destroyed
Royal Opera House (1866).
Neoclassicism gave way to other architectural styles by the late 19th century. Few buildings were built in the neoclassical style during the 20th century, such as the
Domvs Romana museum (1922), and the
Courts of Justice building in Valletta (1965–1971).
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The centre of Polish Neoclassicism was
Warsaw under the rule of the last Polish king,
Stanislaus Augustus Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, Cali ...
. The
University of Vilnius
Vilnius University ( lt, Vilniaus universitetas) is a public research university, oldest in the Baltic states and in Northern Europe outside the United Kingdom (or 6th overall following foundations of Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Glasgow and ...
was another important centre of the Neoclassical architecture in Europe, led by the notable professors of architecture
Marcin Knackfus
Marcin Knackfus (, c. 1742 – c. 1821) was a Polish–Lithuanian Neoclassical architect of German descent. Born near Warsaw, he worked in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and particularly in its capital Vilnius. He was a tutor of Laurynas Guceviči ...
,
Laurynas Gucevicius and
Karol Podczaszyński. The style was expressed in the shape of main public buildings, such as the University's Observatory,
Vilnius Cathedral
The Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus of Vilnius ( lt, Vilniaus Šv. Stanislovo ir Šv. Vladislovo arkikatedra bazilika; pl, Bazylika archikatedralna św. Stanisława Biskupa i św. Władysława, historical: ''Kościół Kated ...
and the
town hall.
The best-known architects and artists, who worked in
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were
Dominik Merlini
Domenico Merlini () (22 February 1730 – 20 February 1797) was an Italian-Polish architect whose work was mostly in the classical style.
Life and Style
From 1750 till his death, Merlini lived in Poland. In 1768, he became a nobleman and later ...
,
Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer,
Szymon Bogumił Zug
Szymon Bogumił Zug (20 February 1733 – 11 August 1807), born Simon Gottlieb Zug, and also known as Zugk, was a renowned Polish- German classicist architect and designer of gardens. Born in Merseburg in Saxony, he spent most of his life in th ...
,
Jakub Kubicki
Jakub Kubicki (1758–1833) was a renowned Polish classicist architect and designer.
Biography
Born in Warsaw in 1758, into a bourgeois family, Jakub Kubicki graduated from the Jesuit College, at the same time that he was taking lessons fr ...
,
Antonio Corazzi
Antonio Corazzi (born 16 December 1792 in Livorno, died April 27 1877 in Florence) was an Italian architect working in Poland from 1819 to 1847, mainly in Neoclassical style.
Biography
Antonio Corazzi was the son of an impresario of the Aval ...
,
Efraim Szreger
Ephraim (; he, ''ʾEp̄rayīm'', in pausa: ''ʾEp̄rāyīm'') was, according to the Book of Genesis, the second son of Joseph ben Jacob and Asenath. Asenath was an Ancient Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph as wife, and the daught ...
,
Chrystian Piotr Aigner
Chrystian Piotr Aigner (1756 in Puławy, Poland – 9 February 1841 in Florence, Italy)
was a Polish architect and theoretician of architecture.
Life
Chrystian Piotr Aigner acquired extensive knowledge of architecture in the course of several jour ...
and
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen (; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danish and Icelandic sculptor medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish ...
.
Russia
In the
Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century, neoclassical architecture was equal to
Saint Petersburg architecture because this style was specific for a huge number of buildings in the city.
Catherine the Great
, en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes
, house =
, father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
, mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
, birth_date =
, birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anha ...
adopted the style during her reign by allowing the architect
Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe
Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe (1729 – 7 May 1800) was a French architect whose major career was spent in St. Petersburg, where he became court architect to Catherine II. His students were Ivan Starov and Vasily Bazhenov.
Biograph ...
to build the Old Hermitage and the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg.
Spain
Spanish Neoclassicism was exemplified by the work of
Juan de Villanueva, who adapted
Burke's theories of beauty and the sublime to the requirements of Spanish climate and history. He built the
Museo del Prado, which combined three functions: an academy, an auditorium, and a museum in one building with three separate entrances.
This was part of the ambitious program of
Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. He was the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales and, at age 73, became the oldest person to a ...
, who intended to make Madrid the Capital of the Arts and Sciences. Very close to the museum, Villanueva built the
Royal Observatory of Madrid
The Royal Observatory of Madrid is a historic observatory situated on a small hill next to the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain. It was completed in 1790 and took over some of the work previously done by the naval observatory on the south coast.
...
. He also designed several summer houses for the kings in
El Escorial and
Aranjuez and reconstructed the
Plaza Mayor, Madrid
The Plaza Mayor (English: ''Town square'') is a major public space in the heart of Madrid, the capital of Spain. It was once the centre of Old Madrid. It was first built (1580–1619) during the reign of Philip III. Only a few blocks away is anot ...
, among other important works. Villanueva's pupils expanded the Neoclassical style in Spain.
Germany
Neoclassical architecture became a symbol of national pride during the 18th century in Germany, in what was then Prussia.
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassic ...
built many notable buildings in this style, including the
Altes Museum
The Altes Museum (English: ''Old Museum'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. Built from 1825 to 1830 by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it ...
in Berlin. While the city remained dominated by Baroque city planning, his architecture and functional style provided the city with a distinctly neoclassical center.
Schinkel's work is very comparable to Neoclassical architecture in Britain since he drew much of his inspiration from that country. He made trips to observe the buildings and develop his functional style.
United States
In the new republic,
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...
's neoclassical manner was adapted for the local late 18th- and early 19th-century style, called
Federal architecture. One of the pioneers of this style was the English-born
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who is often noted as one of America's first formally trained professional architects and the father of American architecture. The
Baltimore Basilica
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also called the Baltimore Basilica, was the first Roman Catholic cathedral built in the United States, and was among the first major religious buildings constru ...
, the first
Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States, is considered by many experts to be Latrobe's masterpiece.
Another notable American architect who identified with Federal architecture was
Thomas Jefferson. He built many neoclassical buildings including his personal estate
Monticello, the
Virginia State Capitol, and
the University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective adm ...
.
A second neoclassical manner found in the United States during the 19th century was called
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...
. It differs from Federal architecture as it strictly follows the Greek idiom, however it was used to describe all buildings of the
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. ...
period that display classical orders.
File:University of Virginia Rotunda in 2006.jpg, The University of Virginia Rotunda, an example of the Neoclassical architecture Thomas Jefferson built on campus.
File:Columbia University - Butler Library (48170368646).jpg, Butler Library at Columbia University in New York City (finished in 1934)
File:US Capitol west side.JPG, The United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called The Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, which is formally known as the United States Congress. It is located on Capitol Hill at ...
(finished in 1800)
File:Federal Hall and George Washington statue in New York City.JPG, Federal Hall National Memorial
File:Jefferson Memorial (cropped).jpg, Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C. between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the A ...
in Washington D.C (1939-1943)
Mexico
As part of the
Spanish Enlightenment
The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment ( es, Ilustración) came to Spain in the 18th century with the new Bourbon dynasty, following the death of the last Habsburg monarch, Charles II, in 1700. The period of reform and 'enlightened despotism' un ...
's cultural impact on New Spain, the crown established the
Academy of San Carlos
The Academy of San Carlos ( es, Academia de San Carlos) is located at 22 Academia Street in just northeast of the main plaza of Mexico City. It was the first major art academy and the first art museum in the Americas. It was founded in 1781 as th ...
in 1785 to train painters, sculptors, and architects in New Spain, under the direction of the peninsular Spaniard
Gerónimo Antonio Gil. The academy emphasized neoclassicism, which drew on the inspiration of the clean lines of Greek and Roman architecture. Neoclassicism in architecture was directly linked to crown policies that sought to rein in the exuberance of the Baroque, considered in "bad taste" and creating public buildings of "good taste" funded by the crown, such as the
Palacio de Minería in Mexico City and the
Hospicio Cabañas
The Hospicio Cabañas or Museum Cabañas in Guadalajara, Jalisco was one of the oldest and largest orphanage and hospital complexes in the Americas. Now turned into a museum, the main hall hosts the magnum opus frescoes of muralist painter José C ...
in Guadalajara, and the
Alhóndiga de Granaditas
The Alhóndiga de Granaditas (Regional Museum of Guanajuato) ( public grain exchange) is an old grain storage building in Guanajuato City, Mexico. This historic building was created to replace an old grain exchange near the city's river. The name ...
in Guanajuato, all built in the late colonial era.
[James Oles, ''Art and Architecture in Mexico''. London: Thames and Hudson 2013, pp.132–33, 150.]
Vista palacio minería.jpg, The Palacio de Minería in Mexico, built between 1797 and 1813 by the Spaniard Manuel Tolsá
Manuel Vicente Tolsá Sarrión ( Enguera, Valencia, Spain, May 4, 1757 – Mexico City, December 24, 1816) was a prolific Neoclassical architect and sculptor in Spain and Mexico. He served as the first director of the Academy of San Carlos.
B ...
Casa del marques del apartado.jpg, The Palacio del Marqués del Apartado from Mexico City, built 1795–1805 by Manuel Tolsá
Mexico-nuevo-leon-monterrey-palacio-de-gobierno.jpg, The Palacio de Gobierno (Nuevo León)
File:Hospicio cabañas.JPG, Hospicio Cabañas
The Hospicio Cabañas or Museum Cabañas in Guadalajara, Jalisco was one of the oldest and largest orphanage and hospital complexes in the Americas. Now turned into a museum, the main hall hosts the magnum opus frescoes of muralist painter José C ...
(Guadalajara), built between 1805–1845, is one of the oldest and largest hospital complexes in the Americas.
Parroquia de San José - San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, México.jpg, San José Iturbide
San José Iturbide is a Mexican city (and municipality) located in the Northeast region of the state of Guanajuato, within the Sierra Gorda range. It is named in honor of Saint Joseph and the first Emperor of Mexico, Agustín de Iturbide. The munic ...
parish, built in 1866 by Ramón Ramírez y Arangoiti
Rest of Latin America
The Neoclassical style arrived in the American empires of Spain and Portugal through projects designed in Europe or carried out locally by European or
Criollo
Criollo or criolla (Spanish for creole) may refer to:
People
* Criollo people, a social class in the Spanish race-based colonial caste system (the European descendants)
Animals
* Criollo duck, a species of duck native to Central and South Ameri ...
architects trained in the academies of the
metropolis. There are also examples of the adaptation to the local architectural language, which during previous centuries had made a synthesis or syncretism of European and pre-Columbian elements in the so-called Colonial Baroque.
To more Classical criteria belong, in
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
, the
Palacio de La Moneda
Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency and General Secret ...
(1784-1805) and the
Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago
Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral () is the seat of the Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, currently Celestino Aós Braco, and the center of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. Construction of the Neoclassical cathedral began in 1753 and ended i ...
(1748-1899), both works by the Italian architect
Joaquín Toesca. In Ecuador, the Quito's
Palacio de Carondelet
Carondelet Palace ( es, Palacio de Carondelet) is the seat of government of the Republic of Ecuador, located in Quito. Access is by the public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colloquial name), around which are also the Arc ...
(Ecuador's Government Palace) built between 1611–1801 by Antonio García. At the dawn of the independence of Hispanic America, constructive programs were developed in the new republics. Neoclassicism was introduced in
New Granada by
Marcelino Pérez de Arroyo. Later, in
Colombia, the
Capitolio Nacional
Capitolio Nacional (or National Capitol) is a building on Bolivar Square in central Bogotá, the construction of which began in 1848 and was finished in 1926. It houses both houses of the Congress of Colombia. It was designed by Thomas Reed.
...
was built in
Bogotá
Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the largest ...
between 1848–1926 by
Thomas Reed, trained at the Berlin
Bauakademie
The Bauakademie (''Building Academy'') in Berlin, Germany, was a higher education school for the art of building to train master builders. It originated from the construction department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences ( ...
; the
Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá (1807–1823), designed by Friar
Domingo de Petrés; and in
Peru the
Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa
The Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa ("Basílica Catedral", in Spanish) is located in the "Plaza de Armas" of the city of Arequipa, province of Arequipa, Peru. It is the most important Catholic church of the city and also of the larger Roman Cathol ...
built between 1540–1844 by
Lucas Poblete.
Brazil, which became the seat of the court of the
Portuguese monarchy
This is a list of Portuguese monarchs who ruled from the establishment of the Kingdom of Portugal, in 1139, to the deposition of the Portuguese monarchy and creation of the Portuguese Republic with the 5 October 1910 revolution.
Through the nea ...
, gaining independence from its metropolis as the
Empire of Brazil, also used the resources of architecture for the glorification of political power, and it was decided to resort to architects trained in the
Académie royale d'architecture
The Académie Royale d'Architecture (; en, "Royal Academy of Architecture") was a French learned society founded in 1671. It had a leading role in influencing architectural theory and education, not only in France, but throughout Europe and t ...
. To this period belong the portal of the
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts
The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...
in
Rio de Janeiro made in 1826 and the
Imperial Palace of Petrópolis built between 1845–1862.
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
is another of the countries that seeks to shed its colonial past, but in the context of the reorganization of the country after independence in 1810, an aspect of power is sought that transmits the presence of the State, inspiring respect and devotion, including of course the architecture. However, an image of its own is not conceived, but the Classical canon is introduced, not in the form of a replica of buildings from Antiquity, but with a classical predominance and a lot of influence from
French Classicism; which will last until the 20th century.
File:129 - Santiago - La Moneda - Janvier 2010.jpg, Palacio de La Moneda
Palacio de La Moneda (, ''Palace of the Mint''), or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency and General Secret ...
from Santiago de Chile (1784-1805) by Joaquín Toesca
File:Catedral Metropolitana de Santiago 2012-09-01 10-05-15.jpg, Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago
Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral () is the seat of the Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, currently Celestino Aós Braco, and the center of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. Construction of the Neoclassical cathedral began in 1753 and ended i ...
(Chile) (1748-1899) by Joaquín Toesca and Ignacio Cremonesi
File:Carondelet - Quito.JPG, Palacio de Carondelet
Carondelet Palace ( es, Palacio de Carondelet) is the seat of government of the Republic of Ecuador, located in Quito. Access is by the public space known as Independence Square or Plaza Grande (colloquial name), around which are also the Arc ...
( Quito, Ecuador) built between (1611–1801 by Antonio García)
File:Capitalio National de Colombia, Bogotá.jpg, Capitolio Nacional
Capitolio Nacional (or National Capitol) is a building on Bolivar Square in central Bogotá, the construction of which began in 1848 and was finished in 1926. It houses both houses of the Congress of Colombia. It was designed by Thomas Reed.
...
(Bogotá, Colombia) (1848–1926 by Thomas Reed)
File:Catedral Primada de Colombia-Bogota.JPG, Primatial Cathedral of Bogotá (Colombia) (1807–1823 by Friar Domingo de Petrés)
File:Façana de la catedral d'Arequipa.jpg, Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa
The Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa ("Basílica Catedral", in Spanish) is located in the "Plaza de Armas" of the city of Arequipa, province of Arequipa, Peru. It is the most important Catholic church of the city and also of the larger Roman Cathol ...
(Peru) (1540–1844 by Lucas Poblete)
File:Lima, Peru…Palacio de Justica (8443267061).jpg, Palace of Justice (Lima, Peru) (1939 by Bruno Paprowsky)
File:Museu Imperial - Frente.jpg, Palácio Imperial de Petrópolis (Brazil) (1845–1862 by Julius Friedrich Koeler)
File:Atardecer en el Congreso de la Nación Argentina.jpg, Palacio del Congreso de Nación Argentina (1896–1906 by Vittorio Meano)
File:El Capitolio Havana Cuba.jpg, El Capitolio
El Capitolio, or the National Capitol Building (''Capitolio Nacional de La Habana''), is a public edifice in Havana, the capital of Cuba. The building was commissioned by Cuban president Gerardo Machado and built from 1926 to 1929 under the d ...
(Havana, Cuba) (1926–1929 by Eugenio Rayneri Piedra
Eugenio Rayneri Piedra was the architect of numerous buildings in Havana, son of Eugenio Rayneri Sorrentino a remarkable architect, author of the entrance of the Colón Cemetery, the Palace of the Marquise of Villalba, and the Mercado de Tacón. ...
)
Philippines
Like most western tradition, it arrived in the Archipelago via
Manila galleon from
Acapulco
Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , also , nah, Acapolco), is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has bee ...
as one of the best preferred architecture in the Spanish east indies, manifested in Churches, Civic buildings and one of the popular architectural ornament for native houses, specifically
Bahay na bato
''Bahay na bato'' (Tagalog, literally "house of stone", also known in Visayan as ''balay na bato'' or ''balay nga bato; in Spanish as Casa Filipino'') is a type of building originating during the Philippines' Spanish colonial period. It is an ...
and
Bahay kubo. When the power over the archipelago was transferred from Spain to the United States of America, the style even became more popular and developed from slightly simple approach during the Spanish era, to a more grandeur style of the
Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorpora ...
sparked by the return of massive number of native architectural students to the islands from the western schools. It also became a symbol of democracy and the approaching republic during the commonwealth.
File:San Bartolome Church Malabon facade 001.JPG, San Bartolome Church (Malabon)
File:Ayuntamiento de Manila, 2018 (01).jpg, Ayuntamiento de Manila
The Ayuntamiento de Manila (Manila City Hall) is a building located at the corner of Andrés Soriano Avenue (formerly, ''Calle Aduana'') and Cabildo Street, fronting Plaza de Roma in Intramuros, Manila, Philippines. Also known as the Casas Consis ...
File:National Museum of National History (Manila) in 2019.jpg, National Museum of Natural History (Manila)
The National Museum of Natural History ( fil, Pambansang Museo ng Likas na Kasaysayan) is the national natural history museum of the Philippines. It is located along Agrifina Circle in Rizal Park, Manila.
History
Agriculture and Commerce Build ...
File:El Hogar building Manila.jpg, El Hogar Building
File:Cebu Capitol Compund.jpg, Cebu Provincial Capitol
The Cebu Provincial Capitol is the seat of the provincial government of Cebu in the Philippines. Located at the north end of Osmeña Boulevard in Cebu City, it was designed by Juan M. Arellano, a Filipino architect best known for the Manila Metro ...
File:Basilica de San Martin de Tours (Taal).jpg, Taal Basilica
See also
*
New classical architecture
*
Neoclassical architecture in Milan
Neoclassical architecture in Milan encompasses the main artistic movement from about 1750 to 1850 in this northern Italian city. From the final years of the reign of Maria Theresa of Austria, through the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and the Europea ...
*
Outline of classical architecture
*
Federal architecture
*
Nordic Classicism
*
John Carr (architect)
John Carr (1723–1807) was a prolific English architect, best known for Buxton Crescent in Derbyshire and Harewood House in West Yorkshire. Much of his work was in the Palladian style. In his day he was considered to be the leading architect in ...
*
William Chambers (architect)
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Sir William Chambers (23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796) was a Swedish-Scottish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy.
B ...
*
List of architectural styles
References
Further reading
*Détournelle, Athanase,
''Recueil d'architecture nouvelle'', A Paris : Chez l'auteur, 1805
*Groth, Håkan, ''Neoclassicism in the North: Swedish Furniture and Interiors, 1770–1850''
*Honour, Hugh, ''Neoclassicism''
*Irwin, David, ''Neoclassicism'' (in series Art and Ideas) Phaidon, paperback, 1997
*Lorentz, Stanislaw, ''Neoclassicism in Poland'' (Series History of art in Poland)
*McCormick, Thomas, ''Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neoclassicism'' Architectural History Foundation, 1991
*Praz, Mario. ''On Neoclassicism''
External links
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