![]() ![]() Yet still Neoclassical architecture is beginning to be practiced again in twenty-first Century more in the form of New Classical Architecture and even in Gentrification and Historicism Architecture, the Neoclassical architecture or its important elements are still being used, even when the Postmodernist architecture is dominant throughout the world. Classical architecture during the twentieth century is classified less as a revival, and more a return to a style was decelerated with the advent of Modernism. Various historians of the 19th century have made this clear since the 1970s. Classical architecture after about 1840 must be classified as one of a series of "revival" styles, such as Greek, Renaissance, or Italianate. ![]() Neoclassical architecture is a specific style and moment in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that was specifically associated with the Enlightenment, empiricism, and the study of sites by early archaeologists. In the 21st century, a version of the style continues, sometimes called New Classical architecture or New Classicism. ![]() Therefore, the style is defined by symmetry, simple geometry, and social demands instead of ornament. The style is manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulae as an outgrowth of some classicizing features of the Late Baroque architectural tradition. In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than chiaroscuro and maintains separate identities to each of its parts. The term "neoclassical" is often used very loosely for any building using some of the classical architectural vocabulary. As the 19th century continued, the style tended to lose its original rather austere purity in variants like the French Empire style. This followed increased understanding of Greek survivals. In many countries, there was an initial wave essentially drawing on Roman architecture, followed, from about the start of the 19th century, by a second wave of Greek Revival architecture. The development of archaeology and published accurate records of surviving classical buildings was crucial in the emergence of Neoclassical architecture. The prevailing styles of architecture in most of Europe for the previous two centuries, Renaissance architecture and Baroque architecture, already represented partial revivals of the Classical architecture of ancient Rome and ancient Greek architecture, but the Neoclassical movement aimed to strip away the excesses of Late Baroque and return to a purer and more authentic classical style, adapted to modern purposes. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. ![]() Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. Pierpont Morgan who gave the panels with the rest of the decorator’s seventeenth and eighteenth century objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1907.Top: The Petit Trianon ( Versailles, France), 1764, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel Centre: The Salon de Compagnie of the Petit Trianon Bottom: Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (Paris), 1806–1808, by Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine Three years later, Hoentschel sold the collection to J. Since 1885 the business was directed by Georges Hoentschel who installed the collection in 1903 in a museum-like display at Boulevard Flandrin, Paris. These pieces were part of the model collection of woodwork, paneling, and seat furniture of Maison Leys, a successful decorating business, located at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. Originally part of a larger ensemble and stripped of its surface paint and possibly gilded details, the panels were later framed as individual works. A second similarly shaped cartouche with floral ornament embellishes the lower part of both panels while sprigs of ivy and olive branches winding around an upright molding decorate the sides. A trophy of musical instruments consisting of a bagpipe (musette du cour), oboe (hautbois), a pair of castanets, and a book of music decorates the other (07.225.154b). Although the provenance cannot be substantiated, one of the panels is carved with a trophy of love symbols (a quiver with arrows, cupid’s bow, a flaming torch and roses) in a shaped cartouche composed of C-scrolls at the top (07.225.154a). This pair of panels is believed to have come from a private residence in the Marais, Paris. ![]()
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