1. IRON AND STEEL ARCHITECTURE
AND REALISM
Diego López-Casero Martínez 4ºA
23/04/2012

2. INDEX
IRON AN STEEL ARCHITECTURE:
characteristics, examples…
REALISM:
characteristics, examples….
CREDITS:
websites used for the information of this project

3. IRON AND STEEL ARCHITECTURE
• This style developed during the 19th century.
• The new materials (iron, steel, concrete…) and the new
ways of producing them spread their use because the
new necessities of industry and cities created a boom of
construction of infrastructures and facilities for transport
and communications.
The Library of
St. Genevieve
in Paris, France,
by Henri
Labrouste

4. EXAMPLES OF IRON AND STEEL
ARCHITECTURE
• Some important examples
were:
• The Eiffel Tower in Paris by
Gustave Eiffel.
• The Chrystal Palace in
London by Joseph Paxton.
• Chicago sky-scrappers by
Sullivan (2nd picture).
• The Library of St. Genevieve
by Henri Labrouste.
• The Gallery of Machines of
Dutert and Contamin by
Louis Dutert y Contamin.(1st
picture).

5. THE EIFFEL TOWER
• Tittle: The Eiffel Tower
• Artist: It was built by the engineer
Gustave Eiffel and his colleagues.
• Chronology: It was built between
1887 and 1889
• Material used: Wrought iron
• Present location: Champ de Mars
in Paris (France)
• Description: It’s a 330- meters
high wrought iron tower. The Eiffel
Tower was originally created to
serve as entrance for the 1889
World Fair in Paris. It has a weight
of 7,000 tones. It’s supported by
four strong columns that form a
solid base.
• Nowadays is a tourist claim and
it’s also radio and television
broadcasting tower

6. REALISM
• This style developed in the 2nd half of the 19th century
• This style represented a more free painting that it’s
open to new themes.
• The artists showed an interest for the situation of the
disadvantage of the lower classes.
• The main innovations are in the themes chosen and in
the form that they are represented.
The Gleaners,
by Millet

7. SCULPTURE
• The main themes of these sculptures were work, ordinary life and they
represented also the queens and kings of some important places.
• The bourgeoisie was the predominant group that commissioned
sculptures.
• Sculptures were more detailed.
• Sculptors didn’t have too much artistic freedom, due to the difficulty for
selling their works and high prices of sculptures with respect to painting.
Bust of Christ ,by The forger ,by The dance, by Jean
Constantin Meunier Constantine Meunier Baptiste Carpeaux

8. EXAMPLES
Girls with shell, by
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux
Alphonse XII by
Mariano Benlliure
Carpeaux font by
Baptiste Carpeux
Ugolin and his sons by Isabella the Catholic
Baptiste Carpeaux by Mariano Benlliure

9. PAINTING : CHARACTERISTICS
• This style of painting was a reaction against the Neoclassicist statism and the
exaggerated liberalism and poetic aspects of Romanticism.
• They represented ordinary life, problems derived from industrialization and
disappointment for the failure of liberal revolutions.
• They also represented farmers doing their daily works, with the appropriate
clothes for these works
• They didn´t worry about creating beauty, only the one who derived from reality
because their main function was to represent reality.
• They also represented farmers doing their daily works, with the appropriate
clothes for these works
• They didn´t worry about creating beauty, only the one who derived from reality
because their main function was to represent reality.
The waherwoman by The sower by
Hónore Daumier Millet

10. Gustave Courbet
A burial at Ornans Beach in Normandy
The origin of the world Woman in white stockings

11. Honoré Daumier
The lawyer
Two sculptors The Burden

12. Jean Françoise Millet
Man with a hoe
Louise-Antoinette
Feuardent
Seated Shephardess

13. The Barbizon School
The herd boy
by Constant
Troyon
In the wood at Fontainebleau
by Theodore Rousseau
The passage by Country Woman Riding a
A Antonio Fontanesi Donkey by Constant Troyon

14. • Title: The Angelus
THE ANGELUS
• Artists: Jean François Millet
• Chronology: It was painted between 1857
and 1859
• Material used: Oil on canvas
• Commissioner: It was commissioned by
Thomas Gold Appleton, but he didn´t buy it
finally.
• Present location: Orsay Museum in Paris
(France)
• Description: On this painting we can observe
two farmers that are praying at sunset. They
are praying because they want to thank God
for the harvest obtained with their hard
work. In the lower part of the painting we can
observe the tools that they used to work and
the harvest that they have collected.
• This is a Realist painting because of the colors
and shadows and also because this painting
represents ordinary life of farmers. And
represent reality as it is.

15. CREDITS
• Websites:
• El Ángelus, Jean François Millet. 2006. Musée d´Orsay. Obras comentadas.
20th April 2012. http://www.musee-orsay.fr/es/colecciones/obras-
comentadas/busqueda/commentaire_id/langelus-339.html?no_cache=1>
• El Ángelus de Millet. April 2008
http://aquileana.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/jean-francois-millet-el-
angelus-salvador-dali-reminiscencia-arqueologica-de-el-angelus-de-millet/
• The Angelus http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/jean-francois-millet/the-
angelus-1859
• Escultura del realismo. February 14th 2012.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escultura_del_realismo
• Pintura del realismo. April 9th 2012.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintura_del_realismo
• Torre Eiffel.April 20th 2012. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Eiffel

16. CREDITS
• Pintura realista. February 8th 2011. http://turismouniversal.com/pintura-
realista-caracteristicas.html
• Arquitectura del hierro.2005.
http://www.arteespana.com/arquitecturadelhierro.htm
• La pintura realista en el siglo XIX. May 2007 http://tom-
historiadelarte.blogspot.com.es/2007/05/la-pintura-realista-en-el-siglo-
xix.html
• Arte realista. 2004. http://www.artelista.com/arte-realista.html
• Artists by Movement: The Barbizon School
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/barbizon-school.html
• Arte historia. http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/genios/cuadros/4090.htm
• Books:
• Blanco Carrasco, Cristina and Pérez Fons, Paqui, Social Sciences History 4th
Year ESO