Neoclassicism

Romanticism is an artistic movement that began after the Enlightenment that focused on the genre of literature, music and the arts during the late 1750s well through the mid-1800s. It is said that the era of Romanticism is the historical period in which individuals began to visualize themselves as well as their modern conflicts and desires. To put the idea simply, due to Romanticism’s stylistic diversity, it is uncanny to believe that there was more than one category for this art movement, but…

original features in different regions. There were skilled native artisans and relatively strong political organization in Peru and Mexico. The mix between Spanish and indigenous elements flourished until the last quarter of the 18th cent. when neoclassicism invaded Latin America. The earliest building constructed of impermanent materials, have disappeared but by the end of the 16th cent. more durable monumental architecture had been achieved. In the late 1960s much of the cathedral was damaged…

One of the main reasons you would go to a mortuary, is if you have died or a member of the funeral. Simple. Although, that’s not so much the case at the Regent Street Mortuary anymore. Now, anyone is free to go and explore, and in this article, you can find out the history behind this beautiful structure. Located in Regent St, Chippendale, near Central, and the mortuary is constructed mainly of sandstone. It backs onto the railway, and is surrounded by gardens. The gardens consist of neatly…

who was a French artists of the Impressionist movement, and most of her drawing has to do with the domestic subject; Jacques Louis David is a French artist but not an artist of the Impressionist movement. Instead, David art actually embodies the Neoclassicism style. And in contrast to Morisot who depicted a domestic scene in her painting, David depicted a noble event from ancient history in his…

Many African Americans pursued opportunities to create paintings, sculpture, and other forms of artistic self-expression. Many, of course, had to create their opportunities to create. In my paper I will compare and contrast a few artist lives and works of art. The four African Americans artist I will talk about are Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Mary Edmonia Lewis, and Henry Ossawa Tanner —All four free-born. The differences between art that referred to people’s personal conditions…

During my time in Paris, I was lucky enough to see various monuments that I could only dream of seeing. Each monument I saw is imperative to France as well as the city of Paris. As an American, being in France was interesting experience not only because of the cultural differences. It was interesting because many of the monumental structures I saw were the models for monumental structures back in the United States. For example, the Arc de Triumph has a similar version called the Grand Army Plaza…

Multiculturalism is a recent coinage that refers to the state of coexistence in a society of multiple cultures of race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality. Also referred to as cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism was mainly displayed and shaped by architecture and art in cities that existed during the late Classical and Hellenistic periods. During this time, interactions increased between Greeks and Romans and other people living around the Mediterranean in areas such as Greece or Macedonia,…

The Lasting Influence of Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an 18th century printmaker and architect with a fascination for ancient Roman architecture, but to future generations of artists, he was a visionary who the rebuilt the ruins of classical Roman architecture into macabre and overwhelming structures of fantasy. Piranesi’s Le Carceri infuses his own imagination into each of the 16 plates in this series, manipulating space, light and perspective to create a…

The Duchess of Malfi takes place in Italy, during the 16th century. It begins in Malfi, or Amalfi, at the duchess’ court in the province of Salerno on the Western coast of Italy. The scene later changes to Ancona as well as Loretto, and interspersed throughout are scenes in Rome where Bosola reports to Ferdinand and the Cardinal. The play is believed to be set between the years 1504 and 1508, but spans several years as Antonio and the Duchess establish their family, all while keeping it a secret…

How does a comparative study of texts heighten your understanding of the dichotomy of the human psyche? While studying and comparing the positive notion of creation and the detrimental effect destruction has on an individuals being we begin to comprehend the complicated and dichotomous nature of human consciousness. William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan drama Macbeth (1606) and the Romantic poems of William Blake ‘London’ (1794) and ‘Human Abstract’ (1794) each validate the convoluted emotions of…