The initial buildings at Columbia, designed by McKim, Mead & White, were grander and more reserved than Rich's design, which has a crisp Beaux-Arts character and a rich palette of brickwork in olive, wine, brown and other colors.
A small artistic elite studied in the beaux arts schools in France and Italy and then spent their lives mostly teaching and painting camels and donkeys, markets and peasants in an accomplished if often undistinguished manner.
On either side of the esplanade that runs between the Champs Élysées and the Seine is Charles Girault's exquisite pair of beaux arts buildings, the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais.
BEAUX ARTS TRIO In the first of two springtime concerts at the Metropolitan Museum, the august ensemble performs favorite piano trios by Dvorák (the "Dumky") and Beethoven (the "Archduke").
Scholars disagree about how to date the rise of the special category of arts designated "fine arts" or "beaux arts".
Every room of the beaux arts building exudes charm, and the extensive rejuvenation is not altering its ambiance or style.
The beaux arts garden's main features are classical sculpture, terraces with fountains, pavilions, elaborate urns and former New York state Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Rockefeller 's collection of 20th-century sculpture.
Designed by the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White, and also in the prevailing beaux arts style, it was constructed in pink granite, with columns and sculpture aplenty.
Whereas the "fine arts" (beaux arts) — music, dance, painting, sculpture, and architecture — predominantly work with natural signs, the "fine sciences" (belles lettres) — poetry and rhetoric — typically employ artificial signs.
In fact, Mendelssohn distinguishes between the fine arts and the beautiful sciences, or between beaux arts and belles lettres, on this basis: the fine arts employ natural signs, and the beautiful sciences or belles lettres employ arbitrary or conventional signs ("Main Principles"; Philosophical Writings, pp. 178 9).
We headed to the historic downtown core, and checked out two nearby loft buildings that Zane was hired to photograph in the beaux arts style -- the Higgins Building (1910) and the Rowan Building (1912).
