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Neoclassical
After the exuberance of the 17th and 18th centuries, 19th- century architecture was
comparatively dull. Architects felt that baroque and rococo had taken pure decoration
as far as it could go and there was a need to simplify styles. They looked to classical
Greece and Rome for inspiration.
Neoclassical and other 'historicist' styles are closely associated with the 19th-cen-
worthy not so much for the architecture but for what they represented: the chance for
Czechs to show they were the equals of their Viennese overlords.
good example of neoclassicism, but here the style being aped is not Roman or Greek,
but Moorish, recalling Jewish roots in Spain.
