Periods, Cultures, Styles > Beaux-Arts

Beaux-Arts

Dates

19th–early 20th century

Places

Europe > Western Europe > France
North America > United States

Basics Works of Art Artists Periods, Cultures, Styles Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC

Works of Art

Teaching guide: The City Beautiful Movement

1922

1890–2021

Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause

1890–2021

Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument

1890

The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgrounds

1890–93

Frederick MacMonnies, Civic Virtue

1922

Carrère & Hastings, The New York Public Library

1902 and after

Artists

Façade of The New York Public Library along Fifth Avenue, 1908, drawing from a glass negative (New York Public Library, New York)

Façade of The New York Public Library along Fifth Avenue, 1908, drawing from a glass negative (New York Public Library, New York)

Carrère and Hastings

John Merven Carrère

Thomas Hastings

Antonin Mercié

Frederick MacMonnies

Wallace K. Harrison

Reed and Stem (architecture firm)

Warren and Wetmore (architecture firm)