Exam 2: Neoclassicism - Lecture #13: Identification

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

(2) Rotunde de la Villette: Toll-house

(3) Paris

(5) 1785-1789

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

(2) The Interior Theater of Besançon

(4) engraving

(5) ca. 1780, published 1804

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

(2) Bird’s Eye View of the Town of Chaux

(4) Engraving

(3) [Arc-et-Senans]

(5) ca. 1780

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

 (1) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

(2) Royal Salt Works

(3) Arc-et-Senans, Franche-Comté

(5) 1774-1779

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

(2) Director’s House

(3) Royal Salt Works at Arc-et-Senans

(5) 1774-1779

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Claude-Nicolas Ledoux

(2) House of the Supervisors of the Source of the Loue River and House of the Gardener

(4) Engravings

(5) ca. 1780

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Étienne-Louis Boullée

(2) Cenotaph for Newton (elevation, cross-section)

(3) Essai sur l’art

(4) Engraving

(5) 1784

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Étienne-Louis Boullée

(2) Extension of the Royal Library

(3) Essai sur l’art

(4) Engraving

(5) 1784-85

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Charles Percier and Pierre-Léonard Fontaine (renovation)

(2) Exterior of the Malmaison

(3) Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris)

(5) 1799-1812

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Charles Percier and Pierre-Léonard Fontaine, et al. (architects)

(2) Garden Facade of the Petite Malmaison (manor house)

(3) Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris)

(5) 1799

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Charles Percier and Pierre-Léonard Fontaine (interior design)

(2) Council room of the Malmaison

(3) Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris)

(5) 1808

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Charles Percier and Pierre-Léonard Fontaine (interior design)

(2) Josephine’s Circular Bedroom in the Malmaison

(3) Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris)

(5) 1808

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Charles Percier and Pierre-Léonard Fontaine, et al. (architects)

(2) Interior of the Petite Malmaison (manor house)

(3) Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris)

(5) 1799

Identify the Image

(1) Name (Architect/Designer/Artist)

(2) Title

(3) Location (Architect)

(4) Technique/Material (Furniture/Art/Artifacts)

(5) Date

(1) Robert Adam (interior design)

(2) Entrance Hall of Syon House

(3) near London

(5) 1762-69

Background Of

(1) Robert Adam (interior design)

(2) Entrance Hall of Syon House

(3) near London

(5) 1762-69

• Color palette reduced to cream, white and black

• Statues, coffered ceiling, moldings, tiled floor with geometric pattern

Robert Adam (renovation), Syon House, near London, 1762-69 (renovation)

• Adam had spent many years in Rome; “Adam Style” and his theory of “movement” in architecture, based on antiquity, made him famous

• Most successful and fashionable architects in the country

• Central rotunda for Syon House, Adams had planned, was not built due to

Robert Adam’s designs were delicate and finely detailed

• Emphasis on commodes, side tables, consoles, cabinets, bookcases, and mirrors, candelabra, silverware, inkwells, door hardware, etc.

• Inventor of the sideboard

• Screen of columns corrects 36’ x 30’ room to look like a perfect square

• Columns imported from Italy

• Gilt images of military trophies derived from engravings of Italian artist Piranesi

• Floor is brilliantly colored scagliola (imitation marble – fine chips of marble and other minerals embedded into plaster)