Sentences with phrase «renaissance classicism»

The ultimate expression of Renaissance classicism and a symbol of Florentine independence, its original location at the entrance to the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria is occupied today by a plaster copy.

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While it is regrettable that he never made his peace with Italian classicism» one wonders what Cram might have learned from the delicate austerity of Florentine arcades or the freewheeling geometric brilliance of Borromini» his early embrace of the Mexican Baroque (spurred by his partner Goodhue), his late interest in the Iberian Renaissance, and his numerous forays into American colonial revival show he was no mere Gothic fanatic.

He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles of the nineteenth century, and on to the present day.

In the history of art the attempt to achieve realism virtually as an end in itself is a minority report, Greco - Roman classicism and the Renaissance being the lone examples.

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

If Stella speaks of Poussin's «tepid classicism» and of the «vacuous symmetry» that haunts High Renaissance art, who are we to look askance?

Yet she insists that her early ambitions lay in architecture, not in gesture, and that she feels closer to the voluptuous classicism of Renaissance Italy.

Inspired by Renaissance nativity portraits, these studiedly scumbled and scratched pictures (her superimpositions and erasures rarely avoid predictability) appear less visceral meditations on motherhood than vastly scaled geegaws propped up by classicism and sheer bloat.

In the first podcast produced on the occasion of the exhibition Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800, Grasselli talks to host Barbara Tempchin about delicate, rare works from the 16th century and extraordinary images of French classicism from the 17th century.

Impulse, given to decorative architectural details by the Ancient World, weaved into all history of architectural embellishments with further variations - classicism, renaissance, baroque, rococo, empire are always giving to interiors the gift of balance, harmony, and festivity.