The Enlightenment and Its Legacy: Art Of the Late 18th Century through the Mid-19th Century
    
       
  Rococo: The French Taste :: The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Society :: The Enlightenment: Science and Technology :: Voltaire Versus Rousseau: Science Versus the Taste For the "Natural" :: The Revival of Interest in Classicism :: From Neoclassicism to Romanticism :: The Rise of Romanticism :: Imagination and Mood in Landscape Painting :: Various Revivalist Styles in Architecture :: The Beginnings of Photography
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  VARIOUS REVIVALIST STYLES IN ARCHITECTURE

Reconsidering the past:

In the nineteenth century, nations came to value their past as evidence of the validity of its ambitions and claims to greatness. Art and architecture of the remote past came to be regarded as a product of cultural and national genius.

Restoring Medieval artisanship:

When the Houses of Parliament were rebuilt following the fire in 1834, the architect A. W. N. Pugin designed a Neo-Gothic building because of the moral purity and spiritual authenticity he associated with religious architecture of the Middle Ages.		    
       
  28-58: CHARLES BARRY and A. W. N. PUGIN, Houses of Parliament, London, England, designed 1835.
  1. Parliament
  2. Parliament
  3. Parliament
  4. Parliament
  5. Parliament
The impact of Imperialism:

John Nash's design for The Royal Pavilion at Brighton exhibits a wide variety of non-Western artistic styles. The exterior is a conglomeration of Islamic domes, minarets, and screens ("Indian Gothic"), while the interior decor ranges from Greece and Egypt to China.		  
       
  28-59: JOHN NASH, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England, 1815-1818.
  1. Exterior
  2. Exterior
  3. Exterior
  4. Windows
  5. Exterior/Interior
Adapting Baroque opulence:

J. L. Charles Garnier employs a festive and spectacularly theatrical Neo-Baroque design for the Paris Opéra.		  
       
  28-60: J. L. CHARLES GARNIER, the Opéra, Paris, France, 1861-1874.
  1. the Opéra
  2. the Opéra
  3. the Opéra
  4. the Opéra
  5. the Opéra
From masonry to iron:

Henri Labrouste used a modified, revived Renaissance style to accommodate the skeletal cast-iron elements in his design for the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.

28-61: HENRI LABROUSTE, reading room of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France, 1843-1850.
  1. Reading Room
  2. Reading Room
  3. Reading Room
A crystal palace:

The Crystal Palace, built by Joseph Paxton to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, is a vast glass-and-iron building built with prefabricated parts.

28-62: JOSEPH PAXTON, Crystal Palace, London, England, 1850-1851. Iron and glass. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
  1. Crystal Palace
  2. Crystal Palace
  3. Crystal Palace
  4. Crystal Palace
  
       
 
 
       
       
  Rococo: The French Taste :: The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Society :: The Enlightenment: Science and Technology :: Voltaire Versus Rousseau: Science Versus the Taste For the "Natural" :: The Revival of Interest in Classicism :: From Neoclassicism to Romanticism :: The Rise of Romanticism :: Imagination and Mood in Landscape Painting :: Various Revivalist Styles in Architecture :: The Beginnings of Photography