Stile Liberty

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Stile Liberty is the Italian variant of Art Nouveau, characterized by its elegant, flowing lines and ornamental, nature-inspired motifs in architecture and design.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural style
design movement
variant of Art Nouveau
countryOfOrigin Italy
culturalContext Italian fin de siècle culture
designPrinciple total work of art
unity of arts
developedInPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
emergedAsReactionTo academic eclecticism
historicism in architecture
field architecture
decorative arts
furniture design
graphic arts
interior design
hasAlternativeName Italian Art Nouveau
hasCharacteristic asymmetry
curvilinear forms
decorative ceramics
elegant flowing lines
floral ornamentation
integration of applied arts and architecture
nature-inspired motifs
ornamental ironwork
plant motifs
polychrome facades
sinuous decorative lines
stylized female figures
influenced Italian early modern architecture
influencedBy Art Nouveau
Arts and Crafts movement
Symbolism
movementWithin European Art Nouveau
namedAfter Arthur Lasenby Liberty
Liberty & Co.
peakPeriod circa 1890s–1910s
relatedStyle Jugendstil
Modernisme
Sezessionstil
typicalLocation Milan
Palermo
Rome
Turin
usedMaterial cast iron
ceramic tiles
stained glass
stucco
wrought iron

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Art Nouveau
alsoKnownAs
Art Nouveau
hasVariant

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