Individual Style: Trinity Church in Boston, begun in 1872 and finished in 1877, shows the perfection of Rich¬ardson's individual style. This style evolved from his study of the Romanesque churches of southern France. The church is cruciform in plan, but the distance from apse Wall to facade is only a little in excess of the distance between the two walls of the transepts. A departure from the Gothic revival style popular after the Civil War, this highly personal Romanesque style of Richardson's had a powerful effect upon subse¬quent designs.
The emancipation of the individual and the growth of a new community consciousness in the city gave rise to a new sense of the dignity of mankind as represented by the average citizen of the city-state. This humanism is most clearly reflected in the evolution of Greek art. The rigid formalism of Geometric art gave way to a freer representation of movement in a luxuriantly decorative style borrowed from the East, the Orientalizing style (700-600 B.C.). Subsequent developments (the archaic style of about 600-480 B. c.) subordinated the newly acquired free¬dom to a demand for naturalism.See Also Frieze Style:After a generation or so in which the Corinthian animal frieze style, which seemed to go with the technique, threatened to stifle this tradition, a series of distinguished Athenian Vase painters established a style in nar¬rative that put the Corinthian potters' quarter out of business and restored Athens to the dominant position in Greek art that it had enjoyed in the 8th century. The mid-6th century artists Exekias and the "Amasis Painter" typified the best of the Athenian style.
The design he produced, Romanesque in general character, may be regarded as transitional to the style in which he worked consistently in the latter part of his life; this style was first confirmed in the North Church of Springfield, built by him in 1872. The Brattle Street Church, now known as the First Baptist Church, has a fine tower orna¬mented below the upper arcade by a bold sculp¬tured frieze. The church is judged to be a partial failure, however. It is ineffective in relating its general mass to the superb tower, and its acousti¬cal properties are imperfect.
On The Other Hand See Decorative Style Borrowed:The discovery of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum and a new interest in ancient vases supplied designers and goldsmiths with models that encouraged a strictly archaeological approach to plate. In France a massive, richly ornamented style was favored, and heavy decorative style borrowed elements were borrowed from classical architecture even in light objects, such as saltcellars.
Rococo. Classical baroque modulated into a lighter, more playful style in the early 1700's, and this trend culminated in the rococo style about 1725. Unlike classical baroque, rococo prefers asymmetry and searches for swirling movement and rich surface animation. Rococo is primarily an ornamental style, and the apparently irregular appearance of a rococo object is often found to be a matter of decoration, not of under¬lying form. The favorite decorative style borrowed motifs are naturalistic.
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