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10. 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."
The Western movement in
decorative and visual arts was
called Neoclassicism.

11. The Neoclassical movement
coincided with the 18th-century Age
of Reason also known as the
Age of Enlightenment.
Neoclassicism continued the
connection to the classical tradition
because it signified moderation and
rational thinking but in a new and
more politically-charged spirit

12. Neoclassical artists
embraced the ideals of order
and moderation in which
artistic interpretations of
classic Greek and Roman
history were restored to
realistic portrayals.
Neoclassical painters gave
great importance to the
costumes, settings, and
details of classical subject-
matter without adding
distracting details but with
as much historical accuracy
as possible.

13. He was born on August 30, 1748, in
Paris, France—and died December 29,
1825, in Brussels, Belgium.
Jacques was an influential French
painter in the Neoclassical style and is
considered to be the pre-eminent
painter of the era. His subjects of
paintings were more on history.

15. David's masterpiece shows the
portrayal of a revolutionary
martyr. This is a painting of the
murdered French revolutionary
leader Jean-Paul Marat.
Created in the months after
Marat's death, the painting shows
Marat lying dead in his bath after
his assassination by Charlotte
Corday on 13 July 1793

16. The painting showed a strongly
idealized view of the real crossing
that Napoleon and his army made
across the Alps through the Great
St. Bernard Pass in May 1800.
This painting commemorates
Napoleon’s journey across the Alps in
1800, leading his army in the invasion
of northern Italy. The scene was
chosen by Napoleon himself, and he
instructed David to show him “calm,
mounted on a fiery steed.”

17. It was a large painting that depicts a scene
from a Roman legend about the dispute
between Rome and Alba Longa. The three
brothers, all of whom appear willing to
sacrifice their lives for the good of Rome,
are shown saluting their father who holds
their swords out for them.
It is painted in 1784 and 1785 and now
on display in the Louvre in Paris. The
painting immediately became a huge
success with critics and the public and
remains one of the best-known paintings
in the Neoclassical style.

18. He was born on August 29, 1780, in Montauban,
France—and died on January 14, 1867, in Paris. He
was a painter and icon of cultural conservatism in
19th-century France. Ingres was a pupil of Jacques-
Louis David. He was influenced by Italian
Renaissance painters like Raphael, Nicolas Poussin,
Botticelli, and his mentor, Jacques-Louis David.
His paintings were usually nudes, portraits, and
mythological themes. He was regarded as one of
the great exemplars of academic art and one of the
finest Old Masters of his era.

20. The painting depicts Napoleon in his
decadent coronation costume, seated
upon his golden-encrusted throne, hand
resting upon smooth ivory balls. During
his reign, the painting was owned by the
Corps Legislatif which was a part of the
French Legislature. The painting was
believed to be commissioned by
Napoleon as King of Italy.

21. The painting was a state-commission by
Charles X to have him remembered in the
building works of the Louvre. The painting
depicts an image of Homer, receiving all
the brilliant men of Rome, Greece, and
contemporary times.
Now exhibited at the Louvre as INV 5417.
The symmetrical composition depicts
Homer being crowned by a winged figure
personifying Victory or the Universe.
Forty-four additional figures pay homage
to the poet in a kind of classical
confession of faith.

22. The Neoclassical
period was one of the
great ages of public
sculpture.
Artists looked to
Roman styles during
the time of Alexander
the Great for
inspiration as well as
to mimic their style.

23. He was born on November 1, 1757, in
Possagno, Veneto, Italy. He died on
October 13, 1822 - Venice, Italy.
Canova was a prolific Italian artist and
sculptor who became famous for his
marble sculptures that delicately rendered
nude flesh. He opened the idea of
portraying discrete sexual pleasures by
using pure contours with his mythological
compositions.

25. It is a sculpture by Italian artist Antonio
Canova first commissioned in 1787 by
Colonel John Campbell. A marble sculpture
portraying the relationship of Psyche and
Cupid. It represents the God Cupid in the
height of love and tenderness, immediately
after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a
kiss. The story of Cupid and Psyche is
taken from Lucius Apuleius' Latin novel
The Golden Ass

26. It was a life-size marble statue of George
Washington, done in the style of a Roman
general. Commissioned by the State of
North Carolina in 1815, it was completed
in 1820 and installed in the rotunda of the
North Carolina State House on December
24, 1821. The building and the statue were
destroyed by fire on June 21, 1831.This is
a marble sculpture of Washington
currently displayed at the North Carolina
Museum of History.

27. He is sometimes called Thorwaldsen; He
was born on 19 November 1770
Cophenhagen and died on 24 March 1844.
Bertel was a Danish and Icelandic sculptor
and medalist of international fame, who
spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy.
Thorvaldsen was the first internationally
acclaimed Danish artist. He executed
sculptures of mythological and religious
themes and characters.

29. Christus is an 1833 white Carrara
marble statue of the resurrected Jesus
by Bertel Thorvaldsen located in the
Church of Our Lady, an Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Denmark, in
Copenhagen, Denmark. It was
commissioned as part of a larger
group, which includes 11 of the original
12 apostles and Paul the Apostle.

30. The Lion Monument is a rock relief in
Lucerne, Switzerland, designed in 1820–
21. It commemorates the Swiss Guards
who were massacred in 1792 during the
French Revolution when revolutionaries
stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
US author Mark Twain praised the
sculpture of a mortally wounded lion as
"the most mournful and moving piece of
stone in the world.

31. also called Classical Revival
architecture, is an
architectural style
produced by the
Neoclassical movement
that began in the mid-18th
century in Italy, France and
Germany.
aimed to strip away the
excesses of Late Baroque
and return to a purer
and more authentic
classical style, adapted
to modern purposes.

33. Temple-style buildings draw inspiration from ancient
Roman and Greek temples. These buildings often feature a
row of columns on their facade and simple gable roofs.
These buildings were uncommon during the Renaissance as
architects of that period focused mainly on applying
classical elements to churches and modern buildings like
palazzos and villas. Many temple-style buildings feature a
peristyle (a continuous line of columns around a building),
a rare feature of Renaissance architecture.

34. Panthéon, a building in Paris that was
begun about 1757 by the architect Jacques-
Germain Soufflot The Panthéon is a
cruciform building with a high dome over
the crossing and lower saucer-shaped
domes (covered by a sloping roof ) over the
four arms. The facade, like that of the
Roman Pantheon, is formed by a porch of
Corinthian columns and a triangular
pediment attached to the ends of the
eastern arm.

35. With its four vast wings, 43 Greek
temple-inspired columns, triangular
pediment, and enormous the building is
topped with a flat roof, in the sense
that its function is decorative rather
than structural, its pinnacle creating a
vertical axis that bisects the main
entranceway. The projecting wings, like
the scene or scenic backdrop in an
ancient Greek theatre, channel the eye
of the viewer to the main entrance since
it was finished in 1823.

36. Alexandre envisioned a peripteral temple
(a temple surrounded by a single row of
columns). The portico of La Madeleine has
eight columns. These fluted Roman
Corinthian columns – there are fifty-two
of them in all – rise to a staggering twenty
meters and encompass the entire
structure. The entablature they support is
embellished with a bipartite architrave
surmounted by a frieze with a decoration
of garlands and putti.

37. Palladian architecture is famous for its stately
symmetry, classical elements, and grand appearance.
Columns and pillars, such as Corinthian columns, are
often seen supporting open structures or porticos.
There are vertical supports within a balustrade known
as "balusters" or "spindles." It is also a classical method
of crowning a building that has a flat or low-lying roof.
Everything is placed in a mathematical arrangement.

38. this building has an overarching
neoclassical architecture with elements
of Palladian style. The White House
building comprises three floors. It has
two distinct facades – the northern front
and the southern front. The northern
façade has the popularly recognized
columned portico with a triangular
central adornment. On the southern
façade, the structure features a more
casual semi-circular portico.

39. A fine example of 19th-century
neoclassical architecture, the U.S.
Capitol combines function with
aesthetics. Its designs derived from
ancient Greece and Rome evoke the
ideals that guided the nation's founders
as they framed their new republic. As
the building was expanded from its
original design, harmony with the
existing portions was carefully
maintained

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