Download - Neo-Classical Art & Architecture
•NEOCLASSICAL STYLE SUPPLANTED ROCOCO DURING THE 178OS
•KEY FIGURES WERE DEPICTED AS CLASSICAL HEROES
•WORKS PORTRAYED THE CLASSICAL VIRTUES OF SELF SACRIFICE AND DEVOTION TO STATE
•COMPOSITIONS EMPHASIZED THE GREEK IDEALS OF RESTRAINT, SIMPLICITY AND SYMMETRY
Neo-Classical Art & Architecture
The Oath of the Horatii
Neo –Classical Theme: Key figures were portrayed as classical heroes.
By Jacques Louis David
THE DEATH OF
SOCRATES, BY
JACQUES LOUIS DAVID
Neo –Classical Theme: Portrayed the classical virtues of self sacrifice and devotion to state.
Socrates has been condemned to death by the Greek government. He willingly drinks the hemlock while lecturing to his students that it is his duty as a citizen to obey the government.
Neo –Classical Theme: Portrayed the classical virtues of self sacrifice and devotion to state.
Madame RecamierBy Jacques Louis David
“Madame Recamier” is an 1800 portrait of Juliet Recamier, reclining in an empire style sofa, in an empire line, dressed as a modern vestal virgin.
Neo –Classical Theme: Key figures were portrayed as classical heroes.
Madame Raymonde de
VerninacBy Jacques Louis David
Neo –Classical Theme: Key figures were portrayed as classical heroes.
Lictors bringing to Brutus the bodies of his sons, by Jacques Louis David
Neo –Classical Theme: Portrayed the classical virtues of self sacrifice and devotion to state.
The painting depicts Lucius Junius Brutus, the Roman leader, grieving for his sons. Brutus's sons had attempted to overthrow the government and restore the monarchy, so the father ordered their death to maintain the republic.
Napoleon Crossing the
Alps
Neo –Classical Theme: Portrayed the classical virtues of self sacrifice and devotion to state.
By Jacques Louis David
The Coronation of Napoleon
THIS WORK FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
SHOWS MARAT, A JACOBIN LEADER,
AFTER BEING STABBED IN HIS BATH TUB, BY CHARLOTTE CORDAY.
The Murder of Marat
Jacques Louis David
Charlotte Corday blamed Marat for the September Massacres, and feared an all out civil war.
She claimed, “I killed one man to save 100,000”.
Neo –Classical Theme: Portrayed the classical virtues of self sacrifice and devotion to state.
THIS IS A NEO -CLASSICAL SCULPTURE. IT PORTRAYS VOLTAIRE, A PHILOSOPHE
FROM THE 1700S, WEARING THE ROBE OF AN ANCIENT
PHILOSOPHER.
Voltaire Seated
By Jean-Antoine Houdon
Neo –Classical Theme: Key figures were portrayed as classical heroes.
THE HOME OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, BUILT BY JEFFERSON
Monticello
Jefferson borrowed the ancient Roman columns and dome for this Neo-Classical architecture.
WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF NEO -CLASSICAL ART?
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Key figures were depicted as classical heroes.Works portrayed the classical virtues of self-sacrifice and devotion to state.
WHO ARE THE MOST FAMOUS NEO -CLASSICAL ARTISTS?
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Jacques Louis David
Jean-Antoine Houdon Thomas Jefferson