Neo classicism

Done By :Toqa EmadAl Zahraa Al Omari Bara’ah Al Shorman

In architecture Neoclassicism signaled a

return to order and rationality after the

melodramatic, flamboyant Baroque, and the d0ecorative

frivolity of the Rococo.

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Early Neoclassical Architecture (1640-1750(

designed by Sir Christopher Wren .(In England( -St Paul's Cathedral,

-the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, -the Royal Chelsea Hospital,

The Royal Chelsea Hospital

Royal Observatory in Greenwich

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

William Kent (1685-1748), who designed -Chiswick House and -the Royal Mews

Chiswick House

By William Kent (1685-1748(

Royal Mews

Robert Adam who designed :

-Syon House-Bowood House,-the Theatre Royal London..

Robert Adam (1728-92(,

Syon House

Theatre Royal London

Bowood House

Neoclassicism was a return to the Classical Orders of Greek and Roman Antiquity

It was marked by large-scale structures, supported and/or decorated by columns of Doric, Ionic or Corinthian pillars, surmounted by enlarged Renaissance-style domes.

Parisian Pantheon

Jacques Germain Soufflot  

In France

Palace of Versailles

Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

 Claude Nicolas Ledoux 

Chateau de Benouville

In Germany : Many neo classicism

architects appears like : Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Carl Gotthard Langhans - who turned Berlin into a neo classical gem to rival Paris and Rome .

Langhans designed the Brandenburg Gate.

Schinkel designed: 1- the Konzerthaus on

Gendarmenmarkt. 2- the Tegel Palace. 3- the Altes Museum.

the Konzerthaus on Gendarmenmarkt

the Konzerthaus on Gendarmenmarkt

the Tegel Palace

the Altes Museum

In Britain

the Neoclassical style was employed in the design of a wide variety of public buildings from banks to museums to post offices,

John Nash, who designed

Buckingham Palace,

Cumberland Terrace and

Carlton Terrace in London

Buckingham Palace

Carlton Terrace in London

Cumberland Terrace

Sir John Soane , who designed the Bank of England,

Pitshanger Manor and the Dulwich

Picture Gallery

Pitzhanger Manor

the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Sir Robert Smirke , designer of the British

Museum

the British Museum

In Russia : neoclassical styles spread

to Russia where Catherine the Great reacted against the high Rococo tastes of her Imperial predecessors.

She summoned the Scottish architect Charles Cameron to design :

1- the Pavlovsk Palace. 2- the Alexander Palace . 3- the Razumovsky Palace .

the Pavlovsk Palace

the Pavlovsk Palace / interior

the Alexander Palace

the Razumovsky Palace

In America :Despite the popularity of

the neoclassical style in Europe, it was in the New World of America where Neoclassical architecture found its true home !

Thomas Jefferson who designed :

1- the Virginia State Capitol .

2- Monticello .

the Virginia State Capitol

Monticello

William Thornton , Benjamin Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch designed the US Capitol Building in Washington DC.

the building - inspired by the Louvre and the Pantheon in Paris - is centered on a grand entrance, supported by projecting wings that ground the structure horizontally.

Al Zahraa – Toqa – Bara’ah

Referances :

- http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/neoclassical-architecture.htm -pictures: google.com