1. Neoclassical Architecture
Compared to
Greek and Roman Architecture

2. Taking an Interest in the Classical
• Grand Tour
– Went all over Europe, including Rome and
sometimes Greece
• Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
–Use intellectual knowledge to recreate society
• Excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii

3. Greece and Rome: Ideal Models
• Greece and Rome represented:
– Liberty
– Civic virtue
– Morality
– Sacrifice
– Civilized society
• Ideal models during political upheaval

4. Style of Neoclassicism
• Appealing because it could portray qualities
associated with democratic purity or unshakeable
authority
• Ideas of different political rule all fell within
Neoclassicism:
– Republic government
– Imperial rule
• Architecture served as an excellent vehicle for
consolidating authority because of its public
presence.

5. Greek and Roman

6. Parthenon by Iktinos and Kallikrates
Athens 437 BCE – 432 BCE

7. Temple of Fortuna Virilis
Rome 75 BCE

8. Maison Carrée
Nîmes 1-10 CE

9. Colosseum
Rome 70 CE – 80 CE

10. Pantheon
Rome 118 CE- 125 CE

11. Neoclassical

12. Chiswick House by Richard Boyle and William
Kent
Near London 1725

13. Panthéon (Sainte-Geneviéve)
by Jacques-Germain Soufflot
Paris 1755-1792

14. Royal Crescent by John Wood the Younger
Bath 1769-1775

15. Monticello by Thomas Jefferson
Virginia 1770-1806

16. La Madeleine by Pierre Vignon
Paris 1807-1842