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Renaissance Revival style

Renaissance Revival style

(1840–1890)
A revival style characterized by a studied formalism, its symmetrical compositions are reminiscent of early 16th-century Italian elements. Ashlar masonry is accented with rusticated quoins, architrave framed windows, and doors supporting entablatures or pediments. A belt or string course often divides the ground or first floor from the upper story, and small square windows are used on the top story.
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The 3,600 s/f Renaissance Revival style house was originally built in 1887.
Fair has been involved with Make-A-Wish Mid-South and the Junior League of Little Rock, where she's chair-elect of the committee overseeing its 1910-vintage Second Renaissance Revival Style headquarters.
Dating from around 1885, it is elegantly crafted in Cuban mahogany, featuring etched inlay work in the Renaissance Revival style. A fine ebony and brass-mounted George III bracket clock (c.
Francis to design the Phoenix Building near the Upper Common, and the architect designed it in the Renaissance Revival style. It was completed in 1893, housing retail shops on the first floor, the insurance company on the second level and apartments on the upper floors.
However, during his lifetime, he was equally renowned for other public works in London in his highly refined Renaissance Revival style. Probably his most accomplished design in this idiom was the Reform Club, Pall Mall, London, the design of which was closely based upon the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.
It moves quickly to post-Civil War jewelry by Tiffany & Co., in the Renaissance Revival style, best exemplified by the 1872 "Bacchus" lapel watch, an elaborate pendant affair in gold, diamond crystal, and enamels, and in brooches inspired by fads for Japanese and Orientalist designs that segued into the popular Art Nouveau style that dominated the early 1900s.
The German architect and theorist, Gottfried Semper (1803-79), designed a few buildings, all in a sumptuous Renaissance Revival style, including the Opera House (1871-8) and Gemaldegalerie (1847-54) in Dresden, and, with Karl von Hasenauer (1833-94), the two museums in the Maria-Theresien-Platz (1872-81), the Burgtheater (1872-86), and the Neue Hofburg (1870-94) in Vienna.
In 1982, a $70-million restoration of the Renaissance revival style capitol building was completed.
All eight of the site's buildings were constructed in the Renaissance Revival style.
The architect designed the building in the Renaissance Revival Style, and it was completed in 1893, housing retail shops on the first floor, the insurance company on the second level and apartments on the upper floors.
331 is one of eight Historic renaissance revival style houses, built in 1895.
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