Sentence examples for of beaux arts from inspiring English sources
The small town of Beaux Arts Village, immediately to the south, was founded in 1908 as an arts colony.
It was one of the last buildings White designed, in the swan song of Beaux Arts architecture, before Modernism began to overtake the Renaissance ideal, architectural historians say.
That means the architecture followed from engineering considerations such as the tensile strength of steel rather than, as in the case of Beaux Arts, originating from a sculptural ideal.
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.
"This is really a great work of Beaux-Arts sculpture".
Back in the days of Beaux-Arts academies, Mr. Johnson's technical refinement would not have seemed unusual.
"Southampton is full of Beaux-Arts and Shingle-style cottages, but this is something eccentric and idiosyncratic.
The classical order of Beaux-Arts architecture represented the unattainable ideal of a society torn apart by its progressive ambitions.
As the protesters marched against a backdrop of Beaux-Arts buildings and bustling shops in downtown Cairo, they showed few signs of fatigue.
A century ago Gilded Age patrons, inspired by progressive ideas, enlisted lions of Beaux-Arts architecture to devise landmark schools, firehouses and police stations throughout the city.
Since the first wave of Beaux-Arts construction, succeeding generations of architects have poured a range of European styles into the mix.
