Beaux Arts + Neo Gothic

Beaux Arts and Neo Gothic, now this two are together since Beaux Arts, a part of the neoclassical era, and Gothic Revival or Neo Gothic were concurrent, meaning, this two styles were born at almost at the same time so it is only natural to be comparing them with one another.

Neoclassical is further subdivided into three periods but I will only focus on one which is incidentally the last one, The Beaux-Arts, it was essentially a style developed by the French between the 18th century and the 19th century. Parallel to this is of course was Neo-Gothic which was born in England at around the same time.

Now, Neo gothic is a movement that can be considered as a manifestation of Romanticism. Since it is evident in the works at that time the romantic inclination to medieval nostalgia and the nature of the Gothic Style. This movement is divided into two phases, the "decorative" and "authentic" phase, the decorative phase is somewhat a dream of noblemen, at that time, to live in castles and live like royalty. The authentic phase however veered into the achievement of structural authenticity during which the style was heavily employed on structures especially churches and public buildings. Example of this is one that would most of us would know since the Royal Family of Britain is all over the news, The Westminster Palace.

Beaux-Arts even though is at the end of the Neoclassical era it was still very significant, one could say that it finished of the Neoclassical era with a bang and confetti. A typical structure for this movement is that it is mostly a rectangular block with a ground story and a very tall second story and the second story would feature a repeating texture of towering columns and arches. Beaux-Arts movement had an exuberance on detail and variety of stone finishes. Outside France, Beaux-Arts flourished in the United States. A good example of Beaux-Art style is the Library of Sainte-Geneviève