A New Form of European Civilization and Its Furniture Style Evolution
The homage for the human civilization is to create a new form.During the passing of the Roman world,the barbarian called by Romanes-Germanic tribes were gradually educated by the Roman civilization and their descendent converted to faith to Christianity.The coronation of Charlemagne,as Roman emperor in 800 symbolized the fusion of the three chief components of the new European civilization:the Germanic tribes,the classical tradition,and Christianity.From then on,Europe entered the new civilization.At the same time,furniture as the one of material civilization,its styles were continuously evaluated.In the early Middle Ages,the Romanesque was appeared and then transformed to Gothic style.The Renaissance produced a new style of art,architecture and interior decoration based upon antique Ro-man art and artefacts.Fifteenth century'antique'furniture was not copied from ancient furniture but concocted from an-cient sources by a'cut-and-paste'method.It exerted a powerful influence on High Renaissance architecture and art;combined with Islamic'arabesque'or'moresque'ornament,grotesque gave rise to a new form of'anti-classical'furni-ture that during sixteenth century spread all over Europe.The two great furniture styles of seventeenth century were Ital-ian baroque and'Louis ⅩⅣ'(French classical-baroque);France's classical-baroque compromise succumbed at the end of the century to a new and deeply'anti-classical'style-Rococo,born of a marriage between grotesque and arabesque.An element new to Western furniture-asymmetry-was introduced.And at the eighteenth century,neo-classical furniture was emerged.These new neo-classical style were accompanied and succeed by'archaeological'neo-classicism,in the course of which the Renaissance re-enactment of antique furniture forms was re-played and extended.In one word,all of them showed a moving paint scroll with ups and downs on a magnificent,which enhanced each other's beauty of institu-tion civilization and spirit civilization from the dimension of material civilization.
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