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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
History of Architecture-II (AP-313)
NEOCLASSICISM
LECTURE 1
Nipesh P Narayanan
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Psyche_revived_Louvre_MR1777.jpg[Online]

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM WHAT IT MEANS?
~ Neo Classical – NEW Classical
Classical
Neoclassical 18th Century
Renaissance – 14th Century on
Baroque – 15th Century
Rococo – 18th Century

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
REVIVAL OF THE CLASSIC

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
REVIVAL OF THE CLASSIC
Renaissance Neoclassical

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
REVIVAL OF THE CLASSIC
Renaissance Neoclassical
Antiquity
Archaeology

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
Plato & Classic Ideas
“Ideal Form”
Archaeology
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Excavation of Pompeii &
Herculaneum
18th Century France and the age of enlightenment
Jacque Louis David
Emmanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
Plato & Classic Ideas
“Ideal Form”

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
Plato & Classic Ideas
“Ideal Form”
Archaeology
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Excavation of Pompeii &
Herculaneum

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
Plato & Classic Ideas
“Ideal Form”
Archaeology
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Excavation of Pompeii &
Herculaneum
18th Century France and the age of enlightenment
Jacque Louis David
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
IMMANUEL KANT WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?
ImageSource:http://www.posterenvy.com/catalog/ss087thumb%20-%20Philosopher%20Immanuel%20Kant.jpg[Online]
Dare to Know!

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
ROUSSEAU DISCOURSE ON ART AND SCIENCES
ImageSource:http://www.laprocure.com/cache/couvertures/9782253193197.jpg[Online]
Rousseau argues that progress –
understood as arts and sciences
“throttle in that the
sentiment of that original
‘freedom’ for which they
seemed born, make them
love their slavery and fashion
them into what is called
civilized peoples.”

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
FRENCH REVOLUTION & JACQUE LOUIS DAVID
Oath of Horatii
ImageSource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David-Oath_of_the_Horatii-1784.jpg[Online]

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
FRENCH REVOLUTION & JACQUE LOUIS DAVID
Death of Socrates
ImageSource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates.jpg.jpg[Online]

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
NEO CLASSICISM REVIVAL OF THE CLASSICAL
Plato & Classic Ideas
“Ideal Form”
Archaeology
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Excavation of Pompeii &
Herculaneum
18th Century France and the age of enlightenment
Jacque Louis David
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
ANDREA PALLADIO (1508 – 1580) PALLADIAN ARCHITECTURE
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Andrea_palladio_fourth_book_image.jpg[Online]
A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I Quattro Libri
dell'Architettura, in an English translation published in London, 1736.

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
ANDREA PALLADIO (1508 – 1580) PALLADIAN ARCHITECTURE
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/PalladioRotondaPlan.jpg[Online]
Villa Rotonda (1570s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
ANDREA PALLADIO (1508 – 1580) PALLADIAN ARCHITECTURE
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Larotonda2009.JPG[Online]
Villa Rotonda (1570s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
GIOVANNI PAOLO PANNINI VEDAUTA IDEATA (Imaginary View)
ImageSource:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Roman_Capriccio_The_Pantheon_and_Other_Monuments_by_Giov
anni_Paolo_Panini.jpg[Online]
Roman Capriccio The Pantheon and Other Monuments (1735)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
GIOVANNI PAOLO PANNINI VEDAUTA IDEATA (Imaginary View)
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/PanniniMusImagin.jpgOnline]
Roman ruins and sculpture (1754-57)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
PRINCE OF WHALES MAUSOLEUM
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http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/822/flashcards/131822/jpg/study_packet_2b_page_021319908840644.jpg
[Online]
Design by Chambers for the Mausoleum of the Prince of Whales (1751)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THE ROMAN vs GREEK
ImageSource:http://exhibits.slpl.org/scanned/pixel/ste01311.jpg[Online]
On the Magnificence and Architecture of the Romans ~ Piranesi (1761)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THE CLASSIC!
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[Online]
Thoughts on Architecture ~ Piranesi (1765)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THE FRENCH ACADEMY IN ROME
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Villa_Medici_a_Roma.jpg[Online]
Villa Medici, Rome (Founded 1666)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
PANTHEON (Paris) - JACQUES-GABRIEL SOUFFLOT
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Paris (1756)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
PANTHEON (Paris) - JACQUES-GABRIEL SOUFFLOT
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Plan, Paris(1756)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
PANTHEON (Paris) - JACQUES-GABRIEL SOUFFLOT
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Int%C3%A9rieur_du_Panth%C3%A9on.jpg[Online]
Interior of Pantheon, Paris(1756)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
BRANDENBURG GATE - CARL GOTTHARD LANGHANS
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Berlin (1789-94)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THE CUPOLA ROOM - WILLIAM KENT
ImageSource:http://www.architecture.com/Images/Palladio/Interiors/Colour/KensingtonPalace.jpg[Online]
Interiors of Cupola Room, Kensington Palace, London (1720s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THE CUPOLA ROOM - WILLIAM KENT
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Interiors of Cupola Room, Kensington Palace, London (1720s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
HOLKHAM HALL - WILLIAM KENT, LORD BURLINGTON
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Holkham_hall_south_face.jpg[Online]
Country House, Holkham Village, England (1730s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
HOLKHAM HALL - WILLIAM KENT, LORD BURLINGTON
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Plan_of_Holkham_Hall.png[Online]
Plan, Holkham hall, Holkham Village, England (1730s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
HOLKHAM HALL - WILLIAM KENT, LORD BURLINGTON
ImageSource:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Marble_Hall_Holkham_Hall.jpg[Online]
Marble Hall – Interior (1730s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
HOLKHAM HALL - WILLIAM KENT, LORD BURLINGTON
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Holkham_Hall%2C_construction_detail.jpg[Online]
Marble Hall – Construction Detail (1730s)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
SYON HOUSE- ROBERT ADAM
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Painting_of_Syon_House.jpg[Online]
Picturesque rendering – London (Remodeled 1762 – 9)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
SYON HOUSE- ROBERT ADAM
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Syon_House_West_Aspect.JPG[Online]
Elevation, Syon House, (Remodeled 1762 – 9)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
SYON HOUSE- ROBERT ADAM
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Syon_Plan.jpg[Online]
Plan, Syon House, (Remodeled 1762 – 9)

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
SHEREMETEV PALACE - QUARENGHI (1790s)
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sheremetev_Palace_01.JPG[Online]
Russia was introduced to neo-classical architecture by Ar. Giacomo Quarenghi
(1744 – 1817), trained as a painter in Bergamo and in Rome

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF NEW REPUBLIC
ImageSourcehttp://www.ushistory.org/declaration/images/trumbull-large1.jpg[Online]
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was influenced by French neo-classicism in his
search for an architecture which would symbolize the values of the newly
established republic, USA (1784).

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF NEW REPUBLIC
ImageSourcehttp://jeffersoninparis.com/images/600_hotel_de_salm_construction.jpg[Online]
Thomas Jefferson’s favorite building, built between1782 and 1787 by the
architect Pierre Rousseau

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
MONTICELLO - THOMAS JEFFERSON
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Thomas_Jefferson's_Monticello_Estate.jpg[Online]
The remodeling of Monticello, completed during Jefferson’s term as the third
president of USA (1801-1809), gave it the effect of a one-storeyed Roman villa.

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
MONTICELLO - THOMAS JEFFERSON
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The remodeling of Monticello, completed during Jefferson’s term as the third
president of USA (1801-1809), gave it the effect of a one-storeyed Roman villa.

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
UNITED STATES CAPITOL
ImageSourcehttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/IMG_2259_-_Washington_DC_-
_US_Capitol.JPG[Online]
Exterior of the Capitol, Washington (initial building 1792 – 1827) by Thornton,
Haller, Hadfield, Latrobe and Bulfinch.

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History of Architecture - II (AP-313) – Neoclassicism
REFERENCE
Watkin, David. 1996. A history of Western Architecture. London : Laurence
King, 1996. ISBN 1856690822.
Fletcher, Banister and Cruickshank, Dan. 1996. Sir Banister Fletcher's: A History
of Architecture. s.l. : Elsevier/Architectural Press, 1996. ISBN 0750622679,
9780750622677.