New version with images

1. NEOCLASSICAL ART
Revision

2. Introduction
It flourished in Europe and North
America from mid to end of 18th
century
They sought to replace the frivolity of
the Rococo with a style logical and
solemn
It was the official art of the revolutions
It has a deep moral sense.

3. Architecture
The model was Rome (because
Herculaneum, Pompeii and Athens
were not discovered
New archaeological finds extended
architecture’s formal vocabulary
This style is known as Adam style
(Britain) , Revival (US)

4. Architecture
Architects and works:
Ledoux
Percier and Fontaine: triumphal arches in
Paris
Robert Adam
Schinkel
Bulfinch: US Capitol, Monticello

5. France
Ledoux: Villette’s Rotonda
Ledoux: Royal Saltworks
Chalgrin: Paris,
Triumph Arch
Boullé: Newton’s cenotaphe’s project

6. France
Godin: Familestier
Labroust: Santa Genevieve library
Abadie: Sacre Coeur
Garnier: Paris Opera

7. Germany
Schinkel: Opera, Altes Museum; Charlotenhoff,
Schinkel Pavilion.

8. Ingland
Smirke: British Museum
Nash: All Souls
Barry: London Parliament House
Wilkins: National Gallery

9. Italy
Piermaringi: Milan Scala
Mengoni: Gallery Vittorio Emmanuelle
Antonelli: Mole Antonelliana
Sacconi: Vittorio Emmanuele’s
monument

10. United States
Bulfinch: Capitole
Bulfinch: State House Boston
Jefferson: Monticello
Bulfinch: Old Connecticut State House

11. Sculpture
Less revolutionary impact due to the
influence of Classicism during
Renaissance
Sculptors avoided dramatic twisting
poses
Coloured marble is not used
Idealized forms carved from white
marble

12. Sculpture
Canova:
His works have exquisite finishing and near
resemblance to real life
Images are attractive, full of grace, elegant
Men deficient in dignity
Female faces pleasing
He enjoyed a high reputation even if his works
can not compete with those of the big sculptors of
other periods
Works: Apollo and Psyche, The Three Graces

13. Austria’s Mary Christinecenotaphe
Cupido and Psychue
Hiru Graziak
Paulina Bonaparte or
Benus Borghese
Perseo with Medusa’s Head
Magdalena

14. Sculpture
Thorvaldsen:
Danish sculptor, one of the biggest
representatives of Neoclassical period
He embodied the style of classical Greek
Motives taken from Greek mythology
Portraits of important personalities
Works: Mary Magdalene, Zeus and
Ganymede, Pope Pius VII.

15. Ganimede and the Eagle
Venus with an Apple
Jason with the Golden
Fleece
Josef Poniatovsky
Eve

16. Painting
Centred in Rome, where painters met
around the German art historian
Winckelmann
Compositions are more simple than
Baroque
Subjects inspired in mythology
Solemn and austere theme and
treatments, and archaeologically correct
in details

17. Painting
Painters began to emulate the flat,
silhouetted figures of Greek vase
painting
The style was successful and imitated
Some approaches are just twodimensional

18. Painting
Jacques-Louis David:
Supporter of the French Revolution
He used grand manners in his early work
He directed the Academe
He produced numerous propaganda
exercises
Works: The Oath of the Horatii, Death of
Marat, the Oath of the Tennis Court

19. Socrate’s Death
The Oath of the Horaces
Tennis Court’s Oath
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Marat’s Death

20. Napoleon’s Crowning
Potoki Count
Lavoisier and his Wife
Leonidas at theTermopilas
Kidnapping of the Sabines
Madame Recamier

21. Painting
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres:
It is responsive to clothing and the
postures dictated by costume
Lacked of spontaneity
Mannered and too finished work
Portraits in which linked realism with
abstraction
Sought for perfectionism

22. Painting
Portraits of women considered implying a
sexual submissiveness
He depicted nudes
Influence of the exotic (harem)
Refined erotic images with women full of
carnal presence
Works: The Big Bather, the Odalisque, the
Turkish Bath

23. Napoleon
Rafael and Fornarina
Countess of Haussonville

24. Turkish Bath
Valpiçoneko bather
The Great Odalisque