Twentieth Century Sculptors. History of Sculpture. Neoclassical Sculpture (Flourished c.1790-1830) Neoclassical art - basically Greek art with a modern twist - was dominated (like the Gothic era) by architecture.
Neoclassical buildings include the Pantheon (Paris), the Arc de Triomphe (Paris), the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), and the United States Capitol Building. In sculpture, neoclassicism involved an emphasis on the virtues of heroicism, duty and gravitas. Leading neoclassical sculptors included the exceedingly severe and heroic Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the troubled portrait-bust master Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the more naturalistic/realist Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), the rather light-hearted Claude Michel called Clodion (1738-1814), and the English sculptors Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823), Thomas Banks (1735-1805), John Flaxman (1755-1826), and Sir Richard Westmacott (1775-1856).
How To Write an Art History Paper - Art History 101: Writing an Art History Paper. You have been assigned an art history paper to write.
You would like to finish your assignment on time with a minimum of stress, and your instructor fervently hopes to read an engaging, well-written paper. Here are some dos and don'ts to guide you, written by an art history professor who has graded thousands of these papers ranging from the superlative to the good, the bad and the phenomenally ugly. Preparation: Art History Timeline.