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The 42 pages that link to Neoclassical architecture, each with the reason it gives.

• Baroque architectureCompared with: Neoclassical designers rejected much of the ornament and theatricality associated with Baroque buildings.

• Neoclassicism (music)Compared with: The shared label invites comparison, but musical neoclassicism drew on a different historical repertoire.

• Gothic Revival architectureCompared with: Its classical symmetry and orders offered a conspicuous alternative to medieval Gothic references.

• Gothic RevivalCompared with: Its classical vocabulary offered a major alternative to medieval Gothic in civic design.

• French Baroque architectureCompared with: It retained classical discipline while rejecting much of Baroque architecture’s theatrical display.

• French architectureCompared with: Its disciplined classicism offered an alternative to Rococo ornament in France.

• Henry van de VeldeCompared with: Its historical conventions contrast with van de Velde’s search for expressive modern forms.

• Architecture of GermanyCompared with: Its restrained classical language competed with Gothic revival and other historical styles in nineteenth-century Germany.

• Architecture of RussiaCompared with: Russian rulers and institutions used its classical language alongside, and sometimes against, national revival styles.

• Architecture of the United KingdomCompared with: Its restraint and classical order contrasted with Gothic revivalists’ medieval references.

• Colonial Revival architectureCompared with: Colonial Revival often uses classical elements but anchors them in American colonial precedents.

• Francesco Bartolomeo RastrelliCompared with: Its restraint contrasted with the ornate Baroque style that had made Rastrelli famous.

• History of architectureCompared with: Its selective return to antiquity contrasts with the eclectic historicism of the same period.

• Italian architectureCompared with: It renewed classical language after the Renaissance and Baroque had already reshaped it in Italy.

• Renaissance Revival architectureCompared with: Neoclassicism looked more directly to antiquity, while Renaissance Revival also drew on later Italian interpretations.