Beaux-Arts
ボザール様式 / 1830s–1920s / Style / Historical Styles
The academic synthesis of the classical taught at the École des Beaux-Arts: grand axes, sculptural ornament and ceremonial sequence laid over modern iron and glass, giving the modern city its public face — stations, museums, banks.
Grand axes and staircases / Synthesized classical orders / Sculptural ornament / Stone over iron structure
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Charles Garnier / the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / McKim, Mead & White