Beaux-Arts

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Beaux-Arts is a grand, highly ornamented architectural style rooted in classical Greek and Roman forms, popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural style
historicist style
countryOfOrigin France
developedAt École des Beaux-Arts
educationalInstitutionAssociated École des Beaux-Arts
endTime early 20th century
hasAlternativeName Beaux-Arts
surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture

École des Beaux-Arts style
hasCharacteristic axial planning
classical orders
elaborate sculptural decoration
formal hierarchy of spaces
grand scale
integration of architecture and sculpture
monumental staircases
rich ornamentation
sculptural allegory
symmetrical composition
use of balustrades
use of classical pediments
use of colonnades
use of domes
use of grand entrances
use of rusticated bases
influenced American Renaissance architecture
City Beautiful movement
influencedBy Baroque
surface form: Baroque architecture

Renaissance architecture
classical Greek architecture
classical Roman architecture
notableExample Musée d'Orsay
surface form: Gare d'Orsay (former), Paris

Grand Central–42nd Street station
surface form: Grand Central Terminal, New York

Grand Palais, Paris
New York Public Library
surface form: New York Public Library Main Branch

Palais Garnier, Paris
placeOfOrigin Paris
popularIn Canada
Europe
France
Latin America
United States of America
surface form: United States
startTime late 19th century
typicalBuildingType government building
museum
opera house
public building
railway station
urban mansion
usedFor monumental civic centers
urban planning schemes

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Commerce Street (Dallas) hasBuildingStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
subject surface form: Ophir Hall
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Elgin Theatre architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
E. J. Lennox style Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Baha'i House of Worship architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
subject surface form: Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette
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subject surface form: Council House, Nottingham
CIBC Theatre architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
Thomas Hastings movement Beaux-Arts
Central Park West museum and cultural corridor hasArchitecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
White City hasArchitecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
subject surface form: White City (World's Columbian Exposition)
William Rutherford Mead architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Borough Hall of Staten Island architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Emmanuel Louis Masqueray architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Emmanuel Louis Masqueray trainedIn Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts tradition
Frederick W. Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
subject surface form: Frederick W. Vanderbilt Mansion
Philip Martiny movement Beaux-Arts
Philip Martiny artisticStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts classicism
Bank of Korea main building architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
The Plaza architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
Julian Abele movement Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
George B. Post movement Beaux-Arts
John Bakewell Jr. genre Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
John Bakewell Jr. movement Beaux-Arts
Salle Favart architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture
Carleton Winslow Sr. architecturalMovement Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts tradition
Carleton Winslow Sr. influencedBy Beaux-Arts
this entity surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture