Monumental art

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Ruins of the Olympieion in Athens

The interior of St. Peter's Basilica

The four American presidents at Mount Rushmore

The imperial coronation of Napoleon I, Louvre

Under monumental art refers to large-scale art, designed clearly with the intention of a distinctive character or even a symbol of power to set. Monumental art can mainly be found in public spaces, e.g. B. for monuments, murals and lordly architecture . The measure of size is the exceeding of human proportions : A building is perceived as monumental if, due to its size, it offers little manageability to the person looking at it from close up, and thus the superiority of the builder, (in the case of monuments) the person dedicated to it or (in the case of sacred buildings) God demonstrates.

There is monumental art from almost all historical epochs.

Examples

Architecture and monuments

• the Egyptian and American pyramids
• the Great Wall of China
• Hellenistic and Roman temples, e.g. B. the Olympieion in Athens
• Christian churches, e.g. B. St. Peter's Basilica in Rome or Cologne Cathedral
• Baroque rulers' palaces, e.g. B. the Palace of Versailles or the Mannheim Palace
• representative buildings of neoclassicism such as the Hall of Fame in Munich
• Buildings at the time of German imperialism , e.g. B. the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig
• The Mount Rushmore National Memorial , the monumental sculpture of four presidential portraits in South Dakota
• the statue of Decebalus , the largest monumental rock sculpture in Europe
• the imperialist urban planning ( world capital Germania ) and architecture under National Socialism ( Olympiastadion Berlin ) and in fascist Italy
• Socialist classicism in Central and Eastern Europe, e.g. B. the Palace of Culture in Warsaw or the Peasant War panorama by Werner Tübke
• Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Representative buildings of large global corporations , e.g. B. the Chrysler Building in New York City
• the new Berlin Chancellery

Monumental painting

• the peasant war panorama in Bad Frankenhausen
• the giant circular painting in the Tirol Panorama Museum in Innsbruck
• the monumental paintings by Johann Peter Krafft , Václav Sochor and Alexander Kircher in the Army History Museum in Vienna
• the monumental paintings in the Musée du Louvre in Paris , such as the imperial coronation of Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David