Beaux Arts architecture[1] denotes the academic classical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Beaux-Arts Classicism
A very rich, lavish and heavily ornamented classical style taught at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in the 19th century. Influenced the last phase of Neoclassicism in the United States
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beaux arts - the study and creation of visual works of art
fine arts
painting - creating a picture with paints; "he studied painting and sculpture for many years" ...
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Combining classical Greek and Roman architecture, Beaux Arts was the favored style for grandiose and massive public buildings and large houses for the very rich from 1885 to 1925.
Beaux Arts buildings have many of these features:
Massive and grandiose
Constructed with stone
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The American Renaissance period which ran from 1885 to the 1920s that encompassed Italian Renaissance and Neoclassical revival styles.
Beaux Arts Style
- a rich style of classical architecture, achieved by "evolutionary rather than revolutionary means" advocated by the Ecole des Beaux Arts in late C19th France. Became influential in America.
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stylized classical proportions and details
theatrical and monumental in design ...
escabeaux inegales; Ger. Schutzstege), in architecture, a term quoted by Vitruvius when referring to the rise given to the stylobate in the centre of the front and sides of a Greek temple.
Art Deco style was the first widely popular style to break with the early 20th century styles of Revival and Beaux Arts styles. It consciously strove for modernity, simplicity, and streamlined -- typical of the newly emerging Machine Age.
The Mansard roof is a French style of a roof coming from the French name Mansart of architect Francois Mansart of the Beaux Arts School of architecture in Paris, France.
Norman enrichment with a row of beaked bird or beast heads usually biting into a roll moulding.Beaux-Arts
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In the mourners on the tomb (begun 1385, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon) of Philip the Bold, Sluter created out of drapery alone eloquent images of sorrow.
The term "mansard" comes from the French architect François Mansart (1598-1666) of the Beaux Arts School of Architecture in Paris, France.
Drawing confidently on a wealth of Renaissance and Baroque elements fused into a style best described as Beaux-Arts, the Paris Opera frames a new conception of public theater and spectacle meshing seamlessly from audience to stage.
 See also: Architecture, Beaux arts, House, Classical, Renaissance
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