Neoclassicism held sway for roughly eighty years (1750 to 1830). This style originated in France, and than spread in all directions (Sidney, St Peterburg, Philadelphia etc.). It is known that Napoleon’s favorite style in art was neoclassicism. If we look back, we can see that everything in that time, from the middle of 18th to mid 19th century were dominated by one style: Neoclassicism. Houses, churches, museums, banks and shops were designed in that new style which penetrated all levels of society.
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) was a scholar with wide interests. He studied most different scientific disciplines, and only in his manhood he began to study art by applying all kinds of scientific knowledge and methods.
First he was studying theology in the University of Halle , but then he bumped in books written by broad-minded English and French writers. He was normally listen Baumgarten’s classes about art, but Baumgarten approach as aesthetic did not satisfied Winckelmann. He thought that Baumgarten’s approach was boring, and empty which art categorize by some ahead composed schema, and not by analyzing.After listening Baumgarten’s classes he thought that it would be good to study mathematics, medicine and physics.
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Famous artist quotes
- Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali
- One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. Salvador Dali
- Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali
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Basilica
Basilica, (Stoa basilike, or basileios) building type with a clearstoreyed nave, two or more lower lean-to aisles on each side of the nave with a high central space delimited by colonnades and illuminated by clerestory lighting and an apse at the end of the nave, originaly for public functions, but later adapted for Christian worship. Larger examples may have first floor galleries and some had semicircular apses.
Michelangelo (1475-1564), was one of the most famous artists in history. He was mainly interested in creating large marble statues, but his endless creative energy also led him to become a great painter and architect as well as a poet. He was also one of the most famous people of his time and a great leader of the Italian Renaissance, a period marked by a rebirth of interest in the art and learning of ancient Greece and Rome. Michelangelo is best known for his treatment of the human body in painting and sculpture. His figures convey a sense of grandeur and power, and arouse strong emotions in many spectators.
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Types of churches
Church- edifice for public Christian worship, distinguished from a chapel or oratory.
Types of churches
1. linear platform
a) basilica
b) aisle-less church (Romanesque church with integrated apse developed from the early medieval house church)
c) hall church
d) church with raised nave and lower side aisles
The arch of Constantine is situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius (one of the tetrarch) at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in AD 312 and of cecennalia or tenth anniversary as emperor in AD 315. (It was the year when Maxentius celebrated five years of reign in Rome). Arch was dedicated in AD 315, it is the latest of the existing triumphal arches in Rome, from which it differs by spolia, the extensive re-use of parts of earlier buildings erected by Hadrian, Traian and Marcus Aurelius.
The imperial-style structure was sometimes expanded to three arches with the central arch reaching a greater height than the two side arches. The triumphal arch of the empire was articulated by a facade of marble columns; ornamental cornices were added to the piers and attics, and the archway and sides were adorned with relief sculpture depicting the emperor’s victories and achievements. In Rome three triumphal arches have survived: the Arch of Titus (ad 81), with relief sculpture of his triumph over Jerusalem; the Arch of Septimius Severus (203–205), commemorating his victory over the Parthians; and the Arch of Constantine (312), a composite product, decorated with reused material from the times of Domitian, Trajan, and Hadrian.
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