GREEK AND GOTHIC

REVIVAL

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REVIVALISM

WHAT IS REVIVALISM?
• Revivalism really took off during the19th
century in part as a romantic reaction to
the impersonal nature of the Industrial
Revolution.
• Classically inspired styles like Greek and
Gothic revival were madly popular in US
and Europe.
• Gothic Revival style was popular for public
buildings, churches, mansions and more
modest private homes.
GREEK REVIVAL [1835-1875]

 GREEK REVIVAL IS AN ARCHITECTURE

MOVEMENT OF THE LATE 18th AND 19th CENTURY,
IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND UNITED STATES.
 IT IS THIS STYLE WHICH INCLUDES GREEK,
ROMAN AND NEOCLASSICAL.
 THE EARLY FORMS OF NEOCLASSICAL
ARCHITECTURE GREW UP ALONGSIDE THE
BAROQUE AND FUNCTIONED AS A SORT OF
CORRECTIVE TO THE LATER’S FLAMBOYANCE.
 PAINTED PLASTER EXTERIOR
• Buildings and ruins in Greece were all made of
stone but American homes of this style were not.
TALL COLUMNS
• They were instead crafted in wood,covered in
AND PEDIMENTS plaster and painted in white to create the illusion
of stone.

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HORIZONTAL TRANSOM
It sits over the front
door, instead of a
KEY fanlight like the earlier
Federal period
ELEMENTS homes.
CHARACTERISTICS
Symmetrical Front door
Heavy facade, surrounded
by narrow
entablature though entry sidelights and
and cornices. is often to rectangular
one side. transom.

Small frieze-
band Chimneys are Gable or
windows set
into wide not hipped roof of
band trim prominent. low pitch
below cornice

Porches.Either
entry or full Columns
Cornice lines width typically in
supported by
emphazied prominent Greek orders,
square or many still
with wide rounded
columns( have Roman
band of trim. typically Doric
style) details.
ROMANTICISM [1800-1810]
What is Romanticism?
It is a movement in which the artist of neoclassical period
sought to break new gound in expression of emotion both
subtle and stormy.

Characterized by the 5 “I”

 Imagination  Inspiration
 Intuition
 Idealism  Individuality

 Shows the height of action.

 Emotional Extremes.
 Celebrated nature as out of control.
 Dramatic compositions.
 Heightened sensation(Life and Death moments)
DIFFERRNCE?

NEOCLASSICAL ROMANTIC
ART ART
Neoclassical art Romantic art
was rigid, severe was
and unemotional. emotional,deepl
It hearened back y felt,
individualistic
to ancient
and exotic. It has
Greece and
been described
Rome.
as a reaction of
Neoclassicism.
GOTHIC REVIVAL
This Revival Movement emerged in
19th century in England.

Its roots were interwined with

deeply philosophical movements
associated with a reawakening of
high church or anglo catholic belief
concerned by growth of religion.

The Gothic revival was paralleled

and supported by medievalism.

A reaction against machine

production and the appearance of
factories also grew.
GOTHIC REVIVAL
Other names: Victorian Gothic, Neo
Gothic or Jigsaw Gothic

Began in the late 1740’s in England.

When increasingly serious and learned admires of

NeoGothic style sought to revive Medieval Gothic
Architecture in contrast to Neoclassic style.

Gothic revival draws features from

original gothic style.
CHARACTERISTICS
Pitched Roof
Ribbed Vaults
Stained Glass

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Cross Gabled
Pointed Arch
windows Gothic arch
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PLAN OF WESTMINISTER PALACE,
ENGLAND
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