Neoclassicism

Hugh Honour

The series to which this book belongs is devoted to both the history and the problems of style in European art. It is expository rather than critical. The aim is to discuss each important style in relation to contemporary shifts in emphasis and direction both in the other, non-visual arts and in thought and civilization as a whole. By examining artistic styles in this wider context it is hoped that closer definitions and a deeper understanding of their fundamental character and motivation will be reached.

David Irwin

Neoclassicism was the favourite style of both Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson, and made Josiah Wedgwood’s fortune. The most pervasive style in the history of European art, it was deployed in the design of houses, churches, museums, banks, shops and items of daily use ranging from teapots to textiles. This book is the first to embrace all manifestations of the style, not only its broad territorial scope, but also its versatility in every branch of art.

Lorenz Edwin and Alfred Eitner​

Through a selection of documents and literary sources this is a picture of the world of art in the years between 1750-1850. The essays and comments deal with matters of studio practice and the economic and social status of the arts and also the politics and government.

Hakan Groth​

When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden, he was determined to give his country a leading place in Europe culturally as well as politically.

Rolf Toman​

Neoclassicism, as a return to the forms and ideals of ancient art and Romanticism as an intellectual attitude, are no longer seen as mutually exclusive alternatives. Looking specifically to Europe, the United States, and Russia, the authors of The Essence of Culture: Neoclassicism and Romanticism have selected the notion of subjectivism as the common denominator that links the visual arts and architecture between the Rococo and Realism periods.

Caroline Clifton-Mogg

The neoclassical style in art and architecture, inspired by the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii, spread across Europe during the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. Clifton-Mogg chronicles its development, particularly in England and France.

Karin Grimme

The classical idealist French Neoclassical painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was one of the 19th century`s major portrait and historical painters. First trained in drawing by Europe`s most famous classicist painter Jacques-Louis David, Ingres went to Rome in his twenties, where he immersed himself in Greco-Roman art and the works of Raphael, Holbein, and Titian, and, while in Florence in 1819, was greatly influenced by Masaccio.

Anthony Grafton (Editor), Glenn W. Most (Editor), Salvatore Settis (Editor)

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to those of an ambulance? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome is all around us, imitated, resisted, reworked, and misunderstood. In this beautifully illustrated and encyclopedic compendium, a team of leading scholars investigates the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Carlotta Lenzi

From the Publisher This wonderfully illustrated book offers the reader a richly detailed exploration of European art in the eighteenth century. The age of the Enlightenment is traced from its origins in France, and the creation of the Academy, to the revival of the Arcadian dream and the exuberance of the Venetian scene.

Robin Middleton​

This volume offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works.