Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, ...
Neoclassical Architecture
Definition and resources for Neoclassical architecture in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States, from 1750 to 1880.
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Neoclassical Revival (1893-1940)
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American Neoclassical substyle inspired by Andrea Palladio's books. Thomas Jefferson owned three copies of Palladio's books and used Palladian ideals in designing Monticello, etc.
This vision of Neoclassicism competed with the simpler Federal style.
Neoclassical Revival
Like the Beaux Arts style, Neoclassical Revival was inspired by the mammoth White City of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Neoclassical
This was a time of classical revival in Europe during 1700s through the 1800s.
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Neoclassical, or "new" classical, architecture describes buildings that are inspired by the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome.
Renaissance and Neoclassical motif in the shape of a suspended loop of drapery or a garland of flowers and fruit.
An American Colonial rush-seated chair of the Queen Anne style, with the back splat in a form of a violin or fiddle.
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Side-gabled or hip Roof: moderate or varied pitch,
Slight eave overhang, boxed with modillions, dentils, or other classical moldings
round fanlight or elliptical fanlight with sidelights at doors
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Maitland, Leslie. Neoclassical Architecture in Canada. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 1984.
Maitland, Leslie. The Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture. Ottawa: National Historic Parks and Sites, 1990.
Neoclassicism / Neoclassical
A movement in architecture that strove to rediscover ancient Classical architecture.
neoclassicalIn the fine arts, Neoclassicism is a movement of the second half of the eighteenth century, corresponding to the Enlightenment and the Are of Reason.
Characterized by a cheerful, homely bulk, Biedermeier is an adaptation of the luxurious, neoclassical French Empire and Directoire styles to inexpensive materials and comfortable, sometimes vulgar, bourgeois tastes.
Palladian window - a window of large size, characteristic of neoclassical styles, divided by columns or piers, resembling pilasters, into three lights, the middle one of which is wider and taller than the others, and is roundheaded.
Antebellum, Bungalow, Craftsman Bungalow, Greek Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival
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Gable, Hipped, Mansard, Shed, Saltbox, Pyramidal, Gambrel, Flat
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(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) denoting, relating to, or having the neoclassical style of architecture created by Palladio
[after Andrea Palladio (1508-80), Italian architect]
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bucrane An ox-skull ornament typical in Roman or neoclassical decoration, from which festoons might hang or as support for garlands.
Gothic Revival Colonial Floor Plans
Greek Revival Floor Plans
Italianate Floor Plans
Log Cabin Floor Plans
Mediterranean Floor Plans
Mission Floor Plans
Modern Floor Plans
Neoclassical Floor Plans
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Classical Revival The Italian Renaissance or neoclassical movements in England and the United States in the nineteenth century that looked to the traditions of Greek and Roman antiquity.
 See also: Classical, Architecture, House, Classical architecture, Arches
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