Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Italian Renaissance interior design refers to interior decorations, furnishing and the decorative arts in Italy during the Italian Renaissance period (c. mid-14th century – late-16th century). History, background and influences
Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, England, built between 1845 and 1851. It exhibits three typical Italianate features: a prominently bracketed cornice, towers based on Italian campanili and belvederes, and adjoining arched windows. [1] The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture.
Despite Rococo influences in the early 18th century, true Italian Rococo interiors began to be made in the late 1720s and early 1730s. The grace and charm of Rococo furnishing succeeded the heavy and imposing Baroque style. Italian Rococo interior design was in essence copied from that of the Régence and Louis XV styles.
Italian Baroque interior design refers to high-style furnishing and interior decorating carried out in Italy during the Baroque period, which lasted from the early 17th to the mid-18th century. In provincial areas, Baroque forms such as the clothes-press or armadio continued to be used into the 19th century.
Rationalist-Fascist architecture was an Italian architectural style developed during the Fascist regime and in particular starting from the late 1920s. It was promoted and practiced initially by the Gruppo 7 group, whose architects included Luigi Figini , Guido Frette, Sebastiano Larco, Gino Pollini , Carlo Enrico Rava, Giuseppe Terragni ...
One of the Neoclassical rooms of the Palace of Caserta. Another Neoclassical room in the Palace of Caserta.. In the visual arts the European movement called "neoclassicism" began after 1765, as a reaction against both the surviving Baroque and Rococo styles, and as a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome, the more vague perception ("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts, and ...
With the fall of Fascism, birth of Republic and the 1946 RIMA exhibition, Italian talents in interior decorating were made evident. With the Italian economic miracle, Italy saw a growth in industrial production and mass-made furniture. Yet, the 1960s and 1970s saw Italian interior design reach its pinnacle of stylishness.
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. ... Italian Barraca ...