Romans
Empire
Empire (French empire – Empire from the Latin. Imperium – command, power) – artistic style, created in France at the beginning of the XIX century, in the era of the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. The chronological framework of the original French “Empire Style” is limited to a very short period of time: from the end of the reign of the Directory (1799) or the year of Napoleon’s coronation (1804) to the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty (1815). The main elements of the Empire, gleaned from ancient art, were already contained in the classicism of Louis XVI (Neoclassicism) and were crystallized in the “Directory style”. However, Empire style is fundamentally different from Classicism. Continue reading
form
wisdom
United States
optics
aesthetization
animals
subject
balance
nihilism
human
style
Renaissance
paradoxical combinations
geometric
breaks
utopia
neoclassicism
Rococo
culture
consequences
penalty
poison
artist
shadows
machine
Pissarro
church
landscape
tradition
work
quest
civilization
currents
Artists
color
consumption
children
cults
Venetian
Gothic
genre
cubism
Titian
characteristic
Scarab
rational
Elder
versions
overdevelopment
boudoirs
impression
language
stimulates
deliberate
era
random
existence
countries
institution
canvas
installations
Saissian period
Milo
furniture
European art
modernism
neo-romantic