Neoclassical Sculpture

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Neoclassical Sculpture
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Perseus with the Head of Medusa1806Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
Antonio CanovaApollo crowning himself
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Roman statue of Marcus Claudius Marcellus Musee
du Louvre, Paris.
Antonio Canova Napoleon as Mars 1803-08
marble 11 h. Apsley House, London
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Antonio Canova, Cupid Psyche, 1787-93, marble,
6 x 7
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Antonio Canova, Cupid Psyche, 1787-93, marble,
6 x 7
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Antonio CanovaNymph
Venus Italica1804-12Pitti Gallery, Florence
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Antonio Canova
Helen of Troy Marble After 1812
Dancer1812Hermitage, St Petersburg
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Antonio Canova, Maria Paolina Borghese as Venus,
marble (Carrara), 1804-1808
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Antonio Canova
The Three Graces1816Hermitage, St Petersburg
Maria Paolina Borghese as Venus
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Bertel Thorvaldsen The Three Graces 1851
The Three Graces Accademia di Brera, Milan
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Venus
Jason with the Golden Fleece1803-28Marble,
height 242 cmThorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen
Hebe
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Horatio Greenough George Washington,
1832-1841, marble, 10-foot-high
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Hiram Powers, Greek Slave, 1844, marble
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Harriet Hosmer
Beatrice Cenci
Zenobia in Chains, marble, 1859
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Harriet Hosmer, Beatrice Cenci
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Edmonia Lewis
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Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free Old Arrow Maker
Daughter, 19th
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Lewis, Hagar in the Wilderness, 19th
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Monument to Admiral Earl Howe
John FlaxmanMonument to Vice-Admiral Horatio
Nelson1808-18MarbleSt. Paul's Cathedral,
London
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John Flaxman
Bust of Alexander Monro
Bust of John Hunter
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John Flaxman
The Apotheosis of Homer
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Wedgewood, Apotheosis of Homer
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Wedgwood jasperware (Etruria) fine-grained,
unglazed porcelain clay colored with cobalt oxide
to produce delicate blue. The figures
appliques of translucent, white porcelain added
to the surface of the blue clay.
Josiah Wedgewood The Apotheosis of Homer (The
Pegasus Vase), Porcelain 'jasperware,' England,
1786
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Wedgewood Vase, Apotheosis of Homer, 1786, white
jasper body with blue dip and white relief
Potpourri jar, Sèvres Royal Porcelain Factory,
France, 1758, porcelain with polychrome and
gold decoration
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John FlaxmanVase
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John FlaxmanThe Odyssey of Homer1805 Engravings,
Tate Gallery, London
Phemius Singing to the Suitors
Penelope Surprised by the Suitors
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Andrea Palladio Villa Cornaro, Piombalno Dese,
Padua, 1551-53.
This villa features on its facade a rare
example of a loggia and a double layer of
columns. This design would be taken up, with
many variations, in the plantation houses of the
American Deep South.
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Andrea Palladio, Villa Rotonda or Villa Capra
Vicenza, Italy 1566 to 1571
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NEO-PALLADIAN ARCHITECTURE
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville,
Virginia, 1770-84, 1796-1806
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Jefferson, Monticello
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Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville,
Virginia, 1770-84, 1796-1806
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Germain Boffrand, Hotel de Soubise, Paris, begun
1732
1770-84
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Economy with elegance and dignity
Virginia State Capitol Thomas Jefferson1785-92
the two wings added 1904-06 Brick, stucco and
wood
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Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France, c. 1916 BC by
Marcus Agrippa
Erechtheum, Acropolis, Greece, 5th cent. BC
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1793 to 1830 Dr. William THORNTON (Original
design and execution) changes and additions by
Benjamin LATROBE and Charles BULLFINCH (rotunda
and dome) Thomas WALTER (expanded wings and
created the modern dome in cast iron 1850s-1863)

The US Capitol (Senate and House of
Representatives)
(Neoclassical architecture)
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Capitol, sketch after 1812 burning
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe, revised design for the
Capitol, perspectives, east and north front,
1806 graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper,
Capitol, sketch after 1812 burning
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Robert Adam
Osterley Park and House
original redbrick Tudor house, transformed and
remodeled by Robert Adam between 1760-1780 for a
wealthy banking family, the Childs.
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Room view of the Entrance Hall at Osterley Park,
designed by Robert Adam in 1767 and has stucco
decoration by the firm of Joseph Rose and
grisaille paintings by Giovanni Battista
Cipriani.
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Robert Adam, the library at Kenwood House,
Hampstead, London, 1767-69. Here, Adam blended
an imitation of the ancient with a taste for
comfort and intimacy.
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Solen Campbell Mereworth Castle,
Kent, 1722-25.
central structure is derived directly from
Palladio's Villa Rotonda (later known as Capra),
Vicenza
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William ChambersSomerset House1776 to
1786London, England
Dundas Mansion
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John NashCumberland TerraceRegent's Park,
London, 1825-27
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Karl Friedrich SCHINKEL Berlin, Germany
Altes Museum, Berlin, 1823 to 1830 (monumental
colonnade, Ionic columns)
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Karl Friedrich SchinkelNew Guard House (Neue
Wache), Berlin
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Leo von Klenze
Walhalla Oil on canvas 95x130cm
conceived in 1807 by Crown Prince Ludwig I of
Bavaria
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Walhalla built between 1830 and 1842
Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor
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Ange-Jacques Gabriel Premier Architecte at
Versailles in 1735 Premier Architecte in
1742 principal royal architect for most of the
reign of Louis XV the Petit Trianon, Versailles,
1762-68
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The Mikhailovsky Palace, Russian_Museum
Carlo RossiThe Military Gallery of the Winter
Palacepainted by Grigory Chernetsov, 1827
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AN ARCHITECTURAL UTOPIA
Etienne-Louis Boullee
Opera au Caroussel
1781
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AN ARCHITECTURAL UTOPIA
Etienne-Louis Boullee
500 d. Egyptian Greek roman
Cenotaph to Newton 1784
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Two house projects by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for
the ideal city of Chaux, 1804