THE MODERN WORLD THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION EnglandMid 18 th Century France 1830 United States Post Civil War

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT John Locke“Man born as Blank Sheet” –Medievil view“Man is cursed, fallen creature” –18th C. view“Man starts fresh”

ARCHITECTURAL HISTORICISM Recreation of Styles More individualistic More accurate Rise of Architectural Scholarship Discovery of Pompeii True Greek Doric Order

18 TH CENTURY ENGLAND Palladian Revival 1720 – 1760 – Interaction of politics, ideas, and art Whigs – Liberal, detested baroque, loved Palladio Tories - Conservative, baroque, favored the monarchy Lord Burlington –Individual with position to promote Palladio –William Kent – Protégé of Burlington Invented English Garden

Chiswick House

ASSEMBLEY ROOMS AT YORK

ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEOCLASSICISM Not filtered through Renaissance All ancient ruins studied – Pompeii Society of Dilettanti formed Ancient sites surveyed, Acropolis and China Giambattista Piranesi –Published views of ancient Rome –Mood of decaying grandeur J.J. Winkelmann –German archaeologist –“History of Ancient Art” –“Shocking Doric Order”

ROBERT ADAM “POST-PALLADIAN ARCHITECT SYON HOUSE Assembled geometric shapes for rooms Screened apses and walls Developed personalized Roman Style of Interior Decoration Designed as Landscape Designer