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Goût grec (or Greek taste) is the term applied to the earliest expression of the neoclassical style in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, it refers specifically to the decorative art
Decorative art

The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes Ceramics , furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture....
s and architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 of the mid-1750s to the late 1760s. The style was more fanciful than historically accurate though the first archaeological surveys of Greece had begun to appear at this time. It was characterized by severe rectilinear and trabeated forms with a somewhat crude Greek detailing such as Ionic scrolls, Greek keys and guilloche.






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Goût grec (or Greek taste) is the term applied to the earliest expression of the neoclassical style in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, it refers specifically to the decorative art
Decorative art

The decorative arts are traditionally defined as ornamental and functional works in ceramic, wood, glass, metal, textile. The field includes Ceramics , furniture, furnishings, interior design, and architecture....
s and architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 of the mid-1750s to the late 1760s. The style was more fanciful than historically accurate though the first archaeological surveys of Greece had begun to appear at this time. It was characterized by severe rectilinear and trabeated forms with a somewhat crude Greek detailing such as Ionic scrolls, Greek keys and guilloche. The style's origin may be found in the suite of furniture designed by Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain for the Parisan financier Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (now in the Mus. Condé, Chantilly). In comparison to the prevailling Rococo style the austerity of these pieces is stark, and found praise from the then authority on Greek antiquity the Comte de Caylus. Also influential were the engravings of the architect Jean-François de Neufforge, the work of Charles De Wailly
Charles De Wailly

Charles De Wailly was a French architect and urbanist, and furniture designer, one of the principals in the Neoclassicism of the Antique. His major work was the Od?on for the Com?die-Fran?aise ....
, and the designs of Philippe de La Guêpière
Philippe de La Guêpière

Philippe de La Gu?pi?re, was a France architect whose main commissions were from Karl Eugen, Duke of W?rttemberg....
. The goût grec was perhaps one of the more vigorous products of the Louis XV style yet was short lived and replaced quickly with the delicate (or insipid, according to preference) goût étrusque and goût arabesque.

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  • Neo-Grec
    Neo-Grec

    Neo-Grec is a term referring to late manifestations of Neoclassicism, early Neo-Renaissance now called the Greek Revival style, which was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second French Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III, a period that lasted approximately between 1848 and 1865....