Classicism and Romanticism. Architecture. Sculpture. Painting. Drawing

This book is devoted to the visual arts and architecture of the era of classicism and romanticism. The wealth and variety of artistic creativity in the period between Rococo and Realism, of course, are not exhausted only by these two styles. But they are the main for the period from 1750 to 1848.

The birth of classicism in the middle of the XVIII century was another attempt to re-comprehend the art and architecture of classical antiquity based on archaeological discoveries. Excavations in Herculaneum (since 1711) and Pompei (since 1733), works on the theory of art and architecture, as well as the works of I.I. Rinkelman, M.A. Lenzhye, I.F. Blonddee was the catalysts of this process. In contrast Baroque and Rococo with the abundance of the decor inherent in them, classicism performed as a puritan art of strict forms. The architecture of classicism, on which the work of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), began to develop in England rather early in England. In painting, the first software product of classicism is considered to be the fresco of A.R. Menges "Parnass" (Villa Albani in Rome, 1761) In France, the most significant representative of classicism was the artist Jacques Louis David, imprinted in his paintings the history of the Great French Revolution. Among his numerous students were such different artists as Jean Auguste Dominique Engr and Eugene Delacroix.

Romanticism - the concept is quite wide and applies, first of all, to the spiritual position of the person. The term itself was borrowed in about 1800 from literary studies, where it was used to characterize a certain era.

A wide understanding of romanticism is evidenced by the diversity of creativity of artists like Johann Heinrich Fusli, John Constable, William Turner, William Blake, Caspar David Friedrich, Philip Otto Runge, Eugene Delacroix and Francisco Goya. This publication covers the period of time until the end of the first half of the XIX century, the book includes the works of the saseans and artists of late romanticism