Styles in Architecture and the Royal Palace of Caserta - Index page
Learn to easily distinguish each style in the field of architecture thanks to the Royal Palace of Caserta
Learn about the history of architecture from antiquity to 1850
Introduction
- Chronology of construction of the main world neoclassical monuments
- Renaissance vs Baroque vs Neoclassical architecture
- Similarities, differences and peculiarities
- The legacy of the Renaissance: the prospect; the grotesque.
- Elements of each style.
Interiors
- Introduction;
- Renaissance vs Baroque vs Neoclassical interior design;
- The ceiling: styles comparison;
- Similarities, differences and peculiarities;
- Elements of each style.
Classical Architecture
- Introduction: the Greek and Roman art;
- Architectural orders;
- The decorative elements;
- Elements of each style.
The Baroque
- From Mannerism to Baroque: from the school of Fontainebleau to the Louis XIV style;
- The Roman Baroque;
- The late Baroque: the Rococo of Louis XV
The Neoclassicism
- The Greek and Etruscan styles.
- Giovan Battista Piranesi;
- Winchelmann, Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Grand Tour;
- Robert Adam and the Palladian style;
- Luigi Vanvitelli;
- The Empire style.
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