2. Taking an Interest in the Classical
• Grand Tour
– Went all over Europe, including Rome and
sometimes Greece
• Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
–Use intellectual knowledge to recreate society
• Excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii
3. Greece and Rome: Ideal Models
• Greece and Rome represented:
– Liberty
– Civic virtue
– Morality
– Sacrifice
– Civilized society
• Ideal models during political upheaval
4. Style of Neoclassicism
• Appealing because it could portray qualities
associated with democratic purity or unshakeable
authority
• Ideas of different political rule all fell within
Neoclassicism:
– Republic government
– Imperial rule
• Architecture served as an excellent vehicle for
consolidating authority because of its public
presence.