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Architecture has been likened to ‘petrified music’ since Antiquity, but the metaphor underwent a profound change around the year 1800. In the aesthetics of German idealism, proportion and order ceased to be the sole measure of beauty and the key to aesthetic appreciation came to lie in the perceiving subject. Rhythm and time, categories associated with temporality, replaced mathematical proportion...
In Czech art history, it is customary to distinguish between Neoclassicism and Romanticism as two separate and by nature antithetical stylistic periods. This distinction fits the classification and evaluation of domestic art relatively well. However, the work of architect Bernhard Grueber, who was from a Bavarian cultural background, defies this classification. Although he belonged to the generation...