Romantic Art - 7 Architecture: Neorrenaissance
Seventh video about the Romantic Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message.
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Romanticism is born in XIX century. It is about the manifestation of feelings and sensations through art. It began in literature by the ideas of Goethe, Rousseau and Hegel. Ideals as revolution, nationalism, freedom, independence are the pillars of the romantic thinking. Historicism, coming back to the old forms, but reinterpreting it. Dramatic emotions, the sublime and ruins. Nostalgia for the past.
In Architecture happens the Historicisms, the Neo-movements. They are: neogothic, neoegyptian, neobyzantine, neorromanesque, neomudejar, neoarab, neorrenaissance, neobaroque, and neocolonial.
Neorrenaissance, or Renaissance Revival, happened over all Europe mostly, including Russia, and it is a coming back to the forms of Renaissance, studying mostly Alberti’s ideas and Palladio forms.
Germany: Würzburg Prison is the first image. There are some operas, as the Burgtheater of Vienna or the Semper Opera, both made by Gottfried Semper. The City halls are also important, examples are the Rathaus of Harburg, of Hamburg, of Recklinghausen, and also the Reichstag building in Berlin
Hungary: the Andrássy Avenue is full of neorrenaissance houses
Russia: the style began with the Demidov house by Auguste de Montferrand. Other examples are the Kremlin Palace and the Mariinski Palace. The Palace of Vladimir in Saint Petersburg is a clear example of the influence of Alberti. The Stieglitz Museum of Saint Petersburg is also a great example, the interior is amazing.
England: Charles Barry introduced the style with his Travellers Club in Pall Mall. Joseph Paxton made the Mentmore Towers and the Castle of Ferrières (this last in France). Other example is the Waddesdon Manor, for the Rothschild family. Also I added here the Georgian style, that is a neoclassical style made from Palladio’s interpretation, so it is neopalladian. Examples are Holkham Hall and Hughenden Manor. Also the Royal Crescent of Bath, by John Wood (father and son)
France: it wasn’t very popular here. Paris Hôtel de Ville. The Chapelle Expiatoire is a religious building, by Fontaine, in memory of Louis XVI and Maria Antoniette, very neoclassical but also with renaissance and baroque influences
Italy: examples are the Teatro Felice of Genova by Barabino, the church of San Francisco di Paula in Naples (already appeared in Neoclassical Art), and Caffé Pedrocchi, with a very cool interior
United States: it was the favourite style of rich people. The Breakers in Rhode Island, Capitol of New York in Albany, Public Library of Boston
Music: Symphony N. 5, First Movement by Beethoven
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