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Timeless Forever:  Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture that inspires today

As Karl Friedrich Schinkel was designing the Altes Museum in Berlin in 1825, he had an ambition to redefine the typology of museum architecture from thereafter. In doing so, he sought to construct a building that married elements of the past with components of the present and future – in essence, to build something timeless. Schinkel turned to the Greek Stoa in Athens as a model for the Altes Museum. Subscribers to neoclassicism recognized that the Greek revival movement was established to create an importance to their individual structures, just as classical Greeks did with their prized designs, and thus the function of buildings were an important qualification for whether neoclassical design was appropriate. Classical Roman architecture was similar to that of the ancient Greeks, particularly when one
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June 25th, 2009 | Category: Neoclassical Architecture | Comments are closed

Neoclassical Movement

Neoclassicism is a movement appeared in mid-18th century as a reaction to Rococo and dominated till the end of 19th century. Neoclassic artists produced works of visual arts, architecture, literature and music. Neoclassicism tries to adopt ideals of Greek and Roman art using classical forms.  Neoclassical art was mostly used in England and France but also spread through Europe and USA in a short time.

Rococo style was based on elaborated decoration, ostentation, asymmetry and lightness and demonstrated aristocracy. Neoclassicism replaced Rococo with rationality, order, balance and perfect control, focusing on noble simplicity. Also Neoclassicism was calm and focused on more formal emotions such as nationalism, loyalty for the country and self-sacrifice as opposed to lighthearted Rococo.
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October 3rd, 2008 | Category: Neoclassical Art | Comments are closed