2. NEOCLASSICISM (1780-1840)
• The word neoclassic came from the Greek word neos
meaning "new” and the Latin word classicus which is
similar in meaning to the English phrase "first class”
• Neoclassicism, is the Western movement in
decorative and visual arts applied to literature,
theater, music, and architecture that were
influenced by the Classical art and culture of
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
3. Characteristics:
✔ Portrayal of Roman History ✔ Formal Composition
✔ Local Color ✔ Overall Lighting ✔ Classic Geo-
Structure
✔ The use of diagonals to show the peak of an emotion
or moment (versus a regular moment)
4. JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
• French painter and
considered to be the pre-
eminent painter of the era.
His subjects of paintings were
more on history.
5. THE DEATH OF MARAT
• Shows the portrayal of a
revolutionary martyr, the
murdered French leader
Jean-Paul Marat.
7. PORTRAIT OF NAPOLÉON ON THE
IMPERIAL THRONE
• Depicts Napoleon in his
decadent coronation costume,
seated upon his golden-
encrusted throne, hand resting
upon smooth ivory balls.
8. ANTONIO CANOVA
• He opened the idea for
portraying discrete sexual
pleasures by using pure
contours with his mythological
compositions.
10. BERTEL THORVALDSEN
• Was the first internationally
acclaimed Danish artist executed
sculptures of mythological and
religious themes characters.
11. CHRIST
• A marble sculpture image of
resurrected Christ currently
located at the Thorvaldsen
Museum.
12. TEMPLE STYLE
• Based on an ancient temple. Many
temple style buildings feature a
peristyle (a continuous line of
colums around a building), a rare
feature of Renaissance architecture.
13. PALLADIAN STYLE - A classical method of crowning a
building that has a flat or low-lying roof.
14. CLASSICAL BLOCK STYLE
• A rectangular or square plan, with
a flat roof and an exterior with
repeated classical pattern or series
of arches and/or columns.
15. ROMANTICISM (1800-1910)
• Romanticism was a movement sought to break
new ground in the expression of emotion in both
subtle and stormy.
• It embraced a number of distinctive themes, such
as a longing for history, supernatural elements,
social injustices, and nature (landscape).
16. Characteristics:
✔ Height of Action ✔ Celebrated Nature as Out of
Control
✔ Emotional Extremes ✔ Dramatic Compositions
✔ Heightened Sensation (life and death moments)
17. JEAN LOUIS THÉODORE
GÉRICAULT
• First French master and his
masterpieces were
energetic, powerful,
brilliantly colored, and
tightly composed.
18. THE RAFT OF MEDUSA
• Portrays the victims of a
shipwreck. The people on this
raft were French emigrants
enroute to West Africa.
19. EUGÈNE DELACROIX
• The greatest French Romantic
painter of all. He achieved
brilliant visual effects using
small, adjacent strokes of
contrasting color.
20. LIBERTY LEADING THE
PEOPLE
• Commemorates the July Revolution
of 1830, which a woman holding the
flag of the French Revolution
personifies Liberty and leads the
people forward over the bodies of
the fallen.
21. FRANCISCO GOYA
• A Spanish painter regarded both
as the last of the "Old Masters"
and the first of the "Moderns"
22. SATURN DEVOURING HIS
SON
• Depicts the Greek myth of the Titan
Cronus (Saturn), who fears that he
would be overthrown by one of his
children, so he ate each one upon
their birth.
23. FRANÇOIS RUDE
• Was best known for his social
art aimed to inspire and capture
the interest of a broad public.
27. GOTHIC REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE
(NEOGOTHIC)
• Also referred to as Victorian
Gothic or Neo-Gothic, features
castellation (castles) in which the
walls and towers are crenellated
in imitation of medieval castles.
Editor's Notes
Based on Andrea Palladio's style of villa construction known as balustrade (a railing with vertical supports along the edge of the roof) called "balusters" or "spindles"
Also known as "Beaux-Arts Style" since it was developed by the French École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts).
