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
