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Mar 30, 2020 · Early American immigrants to Southern California, such as the Bannings, had been raised to emulate and honor their revolutionary country, and nothing said “America” more than neoclassical...
Jun 16, 2023 · Neoclassical architecture emerged in the 18th century as a reinterpretation of classic antiquity. Learn more in this guide from AD.
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While the construction period of the California missions coincided with the Baroque style in Mexico and the emergence of the Neoclassical style in Madrid (as promoted by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando), the Franciscan friars typically eschewed high styles as too ornate.
In the years after the Revolutionary War, architecture became a powerful way to express the enthusiastic and romantic ideas of a liberated republic.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND FEATURES: Neoclassical Revival became a dominant style for domestic buildings nationwide between 1900-1940s. It was directly inspired by the Beaux-Arts style and the Columbian Exposition (Chicago World’s Fair, 1893).
Aug 23, 2019 · When California boosters wanted to flaunt the Golden State’s bounty at the world’s fair in 1893, they presented it in a monumental package — a stalwart resurrection of the then-crumbling Franciscan...
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Arts, Neoclassical, and Italian Renaissance Revival architecture in Los Angeles primarily dates from the 1890s to 1930s, with a significant concentration from the 1920s. 1
