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Beaux-Arts Architecture
Beaux-Arts Architecture
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● Use of Classical Orders: Beaux Arts
architecture employed various classical orders,
such as the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders,
to define the design and proportions of columns
and pilasters.
● Hierarchy of Spaces: Beaux Arts buildings
often featured a clear hierarchy of spaces, with
grand public spaces located at the center and
more private spaces located towards the
periphery.
● Integration of Fine Arts: The Beaux Arts
movement aimed to integrate different artistic
disciplines. Architecture, sculpture, painting, and
decorative arts were often combined to create
a harmonious overall design.
A lot of artworks like paintings that followed the style was on epic themes such as
courage, sacrifice, and death, as well as the ways that changing political and
philosophical systems affected the choice and execution of these subjects.
Hémicycle
This hémicycle depicts those painters, architects, sculptors and engravers considered by
Delaroche and his contemporaries to be the greatest in history. The figures wear clothing
of their own era, ranging from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. While the
figures are arranged in natural poses, many in conversation, they are also grouped into
formal categories. It incorporates a frieze of figures from the worlds of painting,
sculpture, architecture and music may have been influenced by Delaroche’s mural.
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AN ARCHITECT OF THE STYLE - RICHARD MORRIS HUNT
In 1846, he became the first American to enter the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris - the
finest school of architecture in the world . Greatly influenced by his Parisian architectural
training, as well as the established design styles of Europe - notably Renaissance art -
Hunt became a champion of the Beaux-Arts idiom in America. Over the next decades, in
addition to a range of public and private commercial buildings, Hunt established a new
style in ostentatious architecture for the grand mansions of the era's eccentric
billionaires.
His works include the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard, and the Scroll and Key Building
(1869) at Yale University, New Haven , In New York the Lenox Library (1877), two
iron-front stores (1872-74), the Tribune Building (1876) etc.
ARCHITECTURE
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● Various types and colors of marble were included in the design of the interior
such as yellow Italian marble in the hall and deep pink marble from Western
Algeria in the dining room.
● The ballroom is a Luis XIV French motif. The walls are covered with gold leaf,
crystal lights, gold leaf mirrors and a rich ceiling decoration. The gold
chandeliers are fitted for both gas and electricity. The ceiling is decorated with
stucco relief panels.
● The dining room was inspired by the interiors of Versailles in France. Large
portraits of French royalty adorn the walls of black and pink marble. The chairs
are gilded bronze carved covered with metallic thread on velvet.
● The kitchen in the basement contains a twenty five-foot long coal burning stove,
soapstone sinks and built-in ice boxes. Food was brought up to the dining room
by a dumbwaiter.
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