Neoclassical Visual Arts
Painting
- David
- Classical inspired subjects in heroic settings
- Photographic clarity
- Use of direct light as seen in strongly modeled forms
- Same style also utilize contemporary dress
Sculpture and Architecture
- Percier and Fontaine state commissions
- Vendome
Column
- Continuous narrative relief tells of Napoleon's campaign
- Culminates with the battle of Austerlitz
- Arc
de Triomphe
- The Roman models of inspiration
- Trajan's
Column - Commemorated Emperor Trajan's victory over the Dacian
tribes during the later Roman Empire
- Vignon
- La Madeleine
- From Christian cathedral (Louis XVI) to Temple of Reason
(Napoleon)
- Based on Roman pagan temples
- Thomas Jefferson
- Rotunda
at UV
- Roman dome vaulting
- Roman Corinthian orders
- Rejects Roman polychrome marble in favor of Virginian brick
- The Roman model - The
Pantheon
- Canova
- An Italian Neoclassic sculpture brought to France to memorialize
the Napoleon's family
- Classical ideal forms
- The Canova workshop
- Venus
Victorious - Pauline Bonaparte (Napoleon's sister) as Venus
- Napoleon
- Classical nude
- Napoleon as Caesar
- Staff of authority
- Drape of the Imperator
- Greenough
- An American Neoclassical sculptor commissioned to create
the monument to the first president
- George
Washington
- The problems
- Washington as Zeus
- The Classical nude
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter