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Spanish Neoclassicism was exemplified by the work of Juan de Villanueva, who adapted Edmund Burke's theories of beauty and the sublime to the requirements of Spanish climate and history. He built the Museo del Prado, which combined three functions: an academy, an auditorium, and a museum in one building with three separate entrances.
Aug 12, 2021 · This will show that despite its more picturesque and clearly classic and formal appearance, the Spanish neocolonial architecture of the first half of the 20th century, also known as Californian, Missionary or Mediterranean, highlighted its modernity based on well-defined features: compositional freedom, modern floor plants and some other spatial...
Mar 30, 2020 · By the 1920s, the newly rich and wannabe powerful in the real estate and movie industries were increasingly using in-vogue classical architecture to denote status and demand respect.
The modifications were done in a manner corresponding to the original style. Similarly, the colonial Mexico City government building was remodeled in the 1920s and a neocolonial companion building was built in the 1940s.
- Puerta de Alcalá
- Cibeles and Neptuno Fountains
- Museo Del Prado
- Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Teatro Real
- Biblioteca Nacional
- Palacio de Las Cortes
- Palacio de La Bolsa de Madrid
Francesco Sabatini was the main architect of the late Baroque and a precursor of the Neoclassical style; whose works left an important mark on the architecture of Madrid. The best example was the Puerta de Alcalá; which is one of the five old royal gates that gave access to the city. It was erected in 1778 and has a monumental appearance similar to...
Charles III and Sabatini’s project included a series of fountains sculpted with classical mythological motifs; such as the fountains of Cybele and Neptune. Both designed under the neoclassical precepts of Ventura Rodríguez, are presided over by sculptures of gods. The first of them is located in the square that bears its name and between the centra...
Architect Juan de Villanueva followed Sabatini and began his professional career in Madrid during the reign of Charles III. He then continued under his son Charles IV, who named him Master Mayor. Without doubt, Villanueva’s greatest work and a perfect example of the city’s neoclassical architecture was the Prado Museum, located in the heart of the ...
The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) originally had a clear baroque style from the time of Philip V; when it was the former residence of the minister and businessman Juan de Goyenche. But when the Palace became the property of the Academy of Fine Arts in the 18th century, under the ambitious...
Madrid’s Teatro Real is another of the great works that characterize the city’s neoclassical style. Its construction was no longer promoted by the enlightened monarch, but by his grandson Ferdinand VII in 1818. It was set up in the Plaza de Oriente, next to the Royal Palace. To do so, the demolition of the old Teatro de los Caños del Peral was orde...
Inaugurated in 1896, the Biblioteca Nacional (National Library) stands majestically on Paseo de Recoletos and Calle de Serrano, next to Plaza de Colón. Work began many years earlier, in 1836. Queen Elizabeth II laid the first stone of the building that today houses the Library and the Archaeological Museum. It is a neoclassical construction with a ...
Another of the buildings that Elizabeth II herself started was the current Congress of Deputies; located in the Carrera de San Jerónimo. It was inaugurated in 1850, seven years after the beginning of the construction. These were designed under the orders of the architect Don Narciso Pascual i Colomer;who decided on a work of neoclassical style that...
On the emblematic Paseo del Prado, tobacco smoke, running and shouting made up the frenetic daily scene at Madrid’s Palacio de la Bolsa during much of the 20th century. Inaugurated in 1893 by the Queen Regent María Cristina, Spanish stock market activity was concentrated in this magnificent buildingin the Plaza de la Lealtad. Hundreds of agents and...
Jul 3, 2019 · Colonial Revival and Neocolonial houses express the diverse traditions of North America's colonial past. Constructed in the 19th and 20th centuries, these homes borrow ideas from a range of historic styles, from symmetrical Georgian Colonials built by British settlers to the stucco-sided Spanish Colonials built by settlers from Spain.
As a matter of fact, almost every single visitor to the city will direct their steps in the direction of the Museum El Prado, likely the most emblematic building of Spanish Neoclassicism. Built between 1785 and 1787 and originally intended as the Gabinete de Historia Natural (The Natural History Museum), the building was converted into the ...
