The Liberty Style - Italian Art Nouveau Architecture

Vasilii Goriunov,V Murgul

doi:10.1051/matecconf/20165302004

Abstract

This article refers the architecture of Italy of the end of the 19- the beginning of the 20 centuries. It shoes the origin of the term “Italian Liberty architecture”, its main centers, its peculiarities and the buildings of its leading representatives. The assessment of importance of such studies provide the right understanding of the processes in European architecture of this time.

Highlights

All historians of architecture know very well that the term Art Nouveau has a lot of synonyms, accepted by researches of different countries
The exception is the term “ Liberty Stile” its origin seems accidental like the origin of the majority of its synonyms. This term came from the name of the founder of British trading company which specialized on artworks from Japan and China
This was the reason for the fact that many researchers are not quite accurately called this company one of the conductors of Japanese influence on European art

Summary

Introduction

All historians of architecture know very well that the term Art Nouveau has a lot of synonyms, accepted by researches of different countries. After the International Exhibition in Turin in 1902 “ The Liberty Style Architecture” became the symbol of what we would call the Italian Art Nouveau. The “ thirst” for style which inspired the representatives of anti-eclectic movement of the end of the 19 century was very weak in the Italian applied art and architecture where prevailed individualism combined with personal tastes and preferences.

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