Neo-Grec
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Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical Revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, the reign of Napoleo
Neo-Grec architecture in the tomb of actor Bogumil Dawison in Dresden, Germany
Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève (1843–1850), Paris, Henri Labrouste, architect
Edward B. Grubb grave marker (1867), Burlington, New Jersey, attributed to Frank Furness
Lennox Library (1871–77, demolished 1910), Manhattan, New York City, Richard Morris Hunt, architect
Empire style
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The Empire style is an early–19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between
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The Arc de Triomphe of the Place de l'Étoile, one of the most famous examples of Empire architecture, commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon I
Detail of Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel from Paris, with a pair of winged Victories
A pair of sphinxes with an amphora between them, surrounded by rinceaux and palmettes, on a washstand (athénienne or lavabo)
The top of an Egyptian Revival pylon-shaped coin cabinet, with a cornice and a winged sun