Academic Art is the painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies--especially France--characterized by a highly polished style, use of mythological or historical subject matter, and moralistic tone....

The New Orleans Museum of Art features Faberge jewels and Louisiana art and decorative arts, Asian, Native American, Oceanic, and African art, along with paintings and photographs from Europe and America. Click on the highlights of the...

View several of Houdon's most famous sculptures from the neoclassical period of art. All linked to descriptions of the pieces.

A careful study of a portrait painting of the Comtesse d'Haussonville that illuminates the important qualities of Ingres's faultless neoclassical style.

A wonderful click-through slideshow of one of America's most-graceful examples of Gothic Revival architecture. The U.S. Patent Office Building, which dates from 1836, is now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National...

"The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel" by Velasco represents an important period in the development of Mexico's national identity and an important chapter in the history of Mexican art. Velasco's landscapes became...

Retrospective, with full-color reproductions of Ingres's masterworks, including the "Grande Odalisque," traces the major episodes in the painter's artistic career.

A famous neoclassical sculptor.

Overbeck, (1789-1869) was a neoclassical artist. His pictures were diadactic and he used propaganda in many of his works.

The companion website of a major survey of the work of Jacques-Louis David exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum in February 2005. The exhibition focuses on the artist's career after the French Revolution, from the mid-1790s until his...

The "Oath of the Horatii" is typically presented as a prime example of Neoclassical history painting. View pictures and read about the techniques used by David in this essay.

After the successful conclusion of the American Revolutionary War, the Virginia General Assembly desired a statue of George Washington for display in a public space. Jean-Antoine Houdon was commissioned to complete the statue. View...

Built between 1747 and the early 19th century to the design of Guatemalan architect Diego Jose de Porres Esquivel, the monument expresses the transition from Baroque to Neoclassical architecture and its style can be considered to be...

The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route inland, reached its apogee in the 18th century when many of its outstanding religious and civic buildings were built in the style of the Mexican...