Neoclassical architecture

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architectural style cultural movement

Neoclassical architecture is a Western architectural style inspired by the classical forms of ancient Greece and Rome, characterized by symmetry, grand scale, and the use of columns and pediments.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural style → cultural movement →
countryOfOrigin	France → Germany → Italy → United Kingdom →
emphasizes	clarity of form → classical ideals of beauty → rational design →
endTime	early 19th century →
fieldOfUse	government buildings → monuments → museums → palaces → private residences → public buildings →
follows	Baroque architecture → Rococo architecture →
genre	Western architecture →
hasCharacteristic	emphasis on proportion → geometric clarity → grand scale → influence of archaeological discoveries → monumentality → restrained ornamentation → symmetry → use of classical orders → use of colonnades → use of columns → use of domes → use of pediments → use of porticos → use of temple fronts → use of white or light-colored stone →
hasNotableExample	Altes Museum, Berlin → Brandenburg Gate → British Museum → General Post Office, Dublin → La Madeleine, Paris → Panthéon, Paris → Somerset House, London → United States Capitol →
hasNotableProponent	Andrea Palladio → Claude Nicolas Ledoux → John Soane → Karl Friedrich Schinkel → Robert Adam → Étienne-Louis Boullée →
influenced	Beaux-Arts architecture → Empire style → Federal architecture → Greek Revival architecture → Neoclassical revival architecture →
influencedBy	Enlightenment ideals → Grand Tour → Palladian architecture → archaeological excavations at Herculaneum → archaeological excavations at Pompeii →
inspiredBy	ancient Greek architecture → ancient Roman architecture →
opposedTo	Baroque exuberance → Rococo ornamentation →
partOf	Neoclassicism →
startTime	mid-18th century →

Referenced by (294)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
6–9 Carlton House Terrace → Admiralty, Whitehall → Alaska State Capitol → Alexander Column → Anichkov Bridge → Arc de Triomphe → Archbishop’s Palace of Bogotá → Archives I → Assembly House of Gernika → Assembly Rooms, Bath → Aston Webb ("Classical Revival") → Auguste de Montferrand → Austrian Parliament Building → Bakewell & Brown ("Classical Revival") → Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo → Bath, Somerset, England → Bellevue Palace → Belweder Palace area in Warsaw → Belém Palace → Benois Wing → Bogotá Cathedral → Bolshoi Theatre → Braccio Nuovo → Brandenburg Gate → Brandenburg Gate (Potsdam) → British Museum → Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral → Byron White United States Courthouse → California Memorial Stadium → Capitol of Puerto Rico → Capitole de Toulouse → Capitolio Nacional → Carondelet Palace → Casa de Osambela → Casa de Pizarro → Casco Viejo → Castle of Laeken → Chapultepec Castle → Charles Allerton Coolidge ("Classical Revival") → Charles Bulfinch ("Federal style") → Charles Bulfinch → Charlotte Square, Edinburgh → Christiansborg Palace → Château de la Muette → Clarendon Building, Oxford → Club de la Unión → Colon Theater → Corfu (city) → Court of Appeals Hall → Dadiani Palace → De Duif → Delano & Aldrich → Desamparados railway station → Dolmabahce Palace → Doric Hall → Dulwich Picture Gallery → East Front → East Wing → Egmont Palace → El Capitolio → Euston Arch → Executive Residence → Fireproof Building (Charleston, South Carolina) → Florida Supreme Court Building → Freemasons’ Hall (London, original building) → Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II → General Grant National Memorial → General Grant National Memorial → George Washington Masonic National Memorial → George Washington Masonic National Memorial ("Classical Revival architecture") → Gilman Hall ("Classical Revival") → Gothenburg City Hall extension → Government Palace, Helsinki → Graham, Anderson, Probst & White ("Classical Revival") → Haga Palace → Hamilton Mausoleum → Harewood House → Hawaii Theatre → Helsinki Cathedral → Henry Clay Frick House → Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments → Home House, London → Horace Trumbauer → Hospicio Cabañas → Hospicio Cabañas → House of Representatives chamber → Hôtel de Brienne → Indiana Statehouse → Jefferson Memorial → Joaquín Toesca → John Galen Howard → John Nash → John Russell Pope → John Soane → Kedleston Hall → Kenwood House → Königliches Museum → La Madeleine, Paris → La Scala → Lancaster House ("Neo-classical architecture") → Lansdowne House → Leinster House → Lima Cathedral → Loop Retail Historic District ("Neoclassical") → Malacañang Palace → Manchester Art Gallery ("Greek Revival") → Manchester Athenaeum → Manchester Central Library → Manitoba Legislative Building → Mapo Hall → Marietta House Museum ("Federal architecture") → Mariinsky Theatre → Mariinsky Theatre → Massachusetts State House → McKim, Mead & White → Mellon Institute of Industrial Research → Memorial Amphitheater → Metropolitan Cathedral (Guatemala City) → Miami-Dade County Courthouse → Michigan State Capitol → Mikhailovsky Castle → Millionnaya Street → Montpelier (Thomaston, Maine) ("Federal architecture") → Monumental Church (Richmond, Virginia) → Munich Residenz → Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya → Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) → National Archaeological Museum of Athens → National Palace of El Salvador → Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art → Neues Museum → Nevada State Capitol → Newby Hall interiors → Nymphenburg Palace → Oklahoma State Capitol → Old Cathedral of Managua → Old Montreal → Old Royal Palace of Greece → Opernhaus Zürich → Osterley Park → Otto R. Eggers ("Classical Revival") → Palace Square → Palace of the Nation → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Palacio Liévano → Palacio de Gobierno del Perú → Palacio de Justicia → Palacio de Minería → Palacio de San Carlos → Palais Bourbon → Palazzo Koch → Pan American Union Building → Parker Hill Branch Library ("Classical Revival") → Parker Hill Branch Library → Parliament Buildings, Stormont → Parliament House, Melbourne → Pell Wall Hall → Pergamon Museum → Petit Trianon → Plaza San Martín → Prado Museum → Presidential Complex, Ankara → Presidential Palace of Colombia → Presidential Palace, Helsinki → Puerto Rico Capitol → Puerto Rico Supreme Court Building → Rathaus Schöneberg → Regent Street → Register House, Edinburgh → Reichsbank → Riga City Hall → Rotunda at the University of Virginia → Royal Palace of Naples → Royal Palace, Oslo → Saint George Maronite Cathedral → Saint Isaac's Cathedral → Saloon at Kedleston Hall → San Ildefonso College → San Juan City Hall → Schloss Glienicke → Senate House, Cambridge → Senate wing → Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill ("Federal style") → Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge ("Classical Revival") → Sibley Hall → Sir John Soane’s Museum → Small Hermitage → Somerset House, London → St George’s, Hanover Square, London → St. Lawrence Hall → St. Stephen's Basilica → St. Thomas Synagogue → Stadtcasino Basel → State Floor → State Library Victoria → Stock Exchange Building → Stowe House → Supreme Court Building → Supreme Court Main Building, Manila, Philippines → São Bento Palace → Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv → The Queen's College, Oxford → Trinity College, Cambridge → Tripoli Cathedral (former) → Tyringham Hall → United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox ("Classical Revival") → University of Virginia → Valencia Cathedral → Versailles Cathedral → Villa Carlotta → Villa Marlier → Villa Rosebery → Villa del Balbianello → Virginia Executive Mansion → Virginia State Capitol → Walker Art Gallery → Washington Monument (Baltimore, Maryland) → Wellington Arch → West Building → West Building of the National Gallery of Art → West Side Market → West Wing → West Wing Colonnade → West Wing of the White House → White House → Wight and Wight → William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building → William Wilkins → Wotton House remodeling → Wrocław Opera → Zantzinger, Borie and Medary ("Classical Revival architecture") → École Militaire → Étienne-Louis Boullée →	architecturalStyle
Athenaeum Club → Baixa Pombalina of Lisbon → Bath ("Neoclassical") → Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Rueil-Malmaison → Country Club District → Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza → Kensal Green Cemetery → Main Reading Room rotunda → Place Garibaldi → Pont d’Iéna → Preston Bradley Hall → Ruse → Shamian Island → The Bund → United States Capitol Complex → Łazienki Park →	hasArchitecturalStyle
Andrea Palladio → Classical Greek architecture → Neoclassical architecture ("Empire style") → Palladian architecture → Palladian architecture ("Federal architecture") → Pantheon → Renaissance architecture → Robert Adam ("British Neoclassical architecture") → Villa Rotonda → Étienne-Louis Boullée ("Neoclassical architects") →	influenced
Concertgebouw → James Hoban → Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin → Newark Penn Station ("Neo-Classical architecture") → President's House (original design) → San Carlo Theatre → Sir John Soane → Stanford White →	style
National Congress of Argentina → Northern Ireland Parliament →	architecturalStyleOfSeat
Giuseppe Piermarini → Otto R. Eggers →	genre
Palladian window → South Station →	hasStyle
American Renaissance architecture → Georgian architecture →	influencedBy
Paul Philippe Cret → William Adam →	movement
Corinthian order → Ionic order →	usedIn
Mellerstain House interiors ("Scottish neoclassicism") →	architecturalMovement
Turin ("Neoclassical") →	architecturalStylePresent
Karnataka High Court →	buildingStyle
Indiana limestone →	commonlyAssociatedWith
Italianate architecture →	contrastsWith
Rococo architecture →	followedBy
Greek Revival architecture ("Federal architecture") →	follows
San Ildefonso →	hasBuildingStyle
Colonial Revival ("Federal architecture") →	hasInfluence
Interwar architecture ("Neoclassical revival") →	hasMovement
University of Virginia ("Jeffersonian architecture") →	knownFor
I quattro libri dell’architettura →	movementInfluenced
Italian Renaissance Revival →	relatedTo
Doric order →	revivedIn
St James's Square, London →	typicalArchitectureStyle