Classical artists tend to use vertical and horizontal lines, right angles, and bright colors
(especially blue skies).
The outlines of their figures are sharp and clear-cut.
They tend towards less decoration, less busy works.
The outlines of their figures are sharp and clear-cut.
They tend towards less decoration, less busy works.
Roman Art - c. 100 - 250 (Classical)
Emperor Augustus Caesar (63 B.C. - 14 A.D)
Calm, confident, courageous, moral, a virtuous leader of his people.
Romanesque / Byzantine c. 1000 - 1200 (Classical)
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, 1261
Calm, confident, courageous, moral, a virtuous leader of his people.
High Renaissance Art - c. 1500 (Classical)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
Michelangelo - David - 1501 - 1504
Calm, confident, courageous, moral, a virtuous leader of his people (same as Augustus Caesar, above).
Focus on philosophers of classical antiquity (intellect), balance.
Raphael - The School of Athens - 1509 - 1511
(Raphael's homage to the ancient Greek philosophers with Plato and Aristotle in the back center of the painting.)
Neoclassical Art - c. 1750 - 1800 - Simple, natural, stately, dignified, elegant
Ludwigsburg Palace Theater - Redesign after 1750
Brandenburg Gate, 1788 - 1791
Anton Raphael Mengs' Prince of Asturias (future Charles IV of Spain), c. 1765
Still, calm, poised, confident, intelligent
Still, calm, poised, confident, intelligent
Jacques-Louis David - The Death of Socrates (1787)
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