Neo-Grecn.adj.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈɡrɛk/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈɡrɛk/ A. n.
A style of art, architecture, etc., based on a revival of Greek principles or motifs, spec. a style of decorative art originating in France in the second half of the 19th cent.
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transition1730
pasticcio1750
symmetrophobia1809
rococo1835
flamboyantism1846
collegiate Gothic1851
vernacular architecture1857
Neo-Grec1867
modernism1879
wedding-cake1879
Queen Anne1883
Colonial Revival1889
Chicago school1893
Dutch colonial1894
English colonial1894
monumentalism1897
vernacular1910
international style1911
Churrigueresque1913
postmodernism1914
prairie style1914
rationalism1918
lavatory style1919
functionalism1924
Mudéjar1927
façadism1933
open plan1938
Wrenaissance1942
pseudo1945
brutalism1953
open planning1958
neo-Liberty1959
Queen Annery1966
Jugendstil1967
moderne1968
strip architecture1976
high-tech1978
1867 F. J. Jackson in Rep. Artisans Visit Paris Universal Exhib. ii. 206 Ornamentation mostly Louis XIV. and XVI.; very little of the ‘Neo Grec’.
1891 J. Fergusson Hist. Mod. Styles Archit. 304 The French, accepting both Roman and Greek, created the Neo-Grec.
1931 C. H. Reilly in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 989 The next stage, generally called the Neo Grec, was probably due to the indirect influence of the Gothic revivalists.
1977 N. Levine in A. Drexler Archit. of Ecole des Beaux-Arts 334 (title) The Romantic Idea of Architectural Intelligibility: Henri Labrouste and the Neo-Grec.
1996 Mag. Antiques (Nexis) 149 716 In fact, the neo-grec incorporated elements of a number of historical styles and forms from Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other ancient civilizations, as well as from the sixteenth century, all combined with considerable creative invention.
B. adj.
Designating this style of art, architecture, etc.
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florida1706
massive1723
rounded1757
round-arched1782
castellar1789
baronial1807
rational1813
English colonial1817
massy1817
transitional1817
Scottish Baronial1829
rococo1830
flamboyant1832
Scotch Baronial1833
Churrigueresque1845
Russo-Byzantine1845
soaring1849
trenchant1849
vernacular1857
Scots Baronial1864
baroque1867
Perp.1867
rayonnant1873
Dutch colonial1876
Neo-Grec1878
rococoesque1885
Richardsonian1887
federal1894
organic1896
confectionery1897
European-style1907
postmodern1916
Lutyens1921
modern1927
moderne1928
functionalist1930
Williamsburg1931
Colonial Revival1934
packing case1935
Corbusian1936
lavatorial1936
pseudish1938
Adamesque1942
rationalist1952
Miesian1956
open-planned1958
Lutyensesque1961
façade1962
Odeon1964
high-tech1979
Populuxe1986
1878 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 207 Even..the Renaissance palaces of Italy..do not betray the personal characteristics of their designers to the same extent..as do the Neo-Grec works of Henri Labrouste in Paris.
1889 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 250 From the carefully-considered proportions of a Neo-grec palace to the mouldings on a block of builder's buildings..is visible [in France] the working of the art instinct under the direction of taste to the end of elegance.
1939 Archit. Rev. 85 52/3 No better background could be imagined for the parade ground manoeuvrings of redcoated guards than these stern, unadorned neo-grec façades.
1978 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 9 38 (note) Most of the hallstands illustrated here are examples of what was known as the neo-grec style in the 1870s.
2000 Grove's Dict. Art Online at Neo-Grec In Paris, the Neo-Grec style was best exemplified in the famous ‘Maison Pompeienne’ (1856–8; destr. 1891) designed for Prince Napoleon Bonapart..by Alfred Nicolas Normand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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