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The term Art Nouveau was first used in the 1880s in the Belgian journal L'Art Moderne to describe the work of Les Vingt, twenty painters and sculptors seeking reform through art. The name was popularized by the Maison de l'Art Nouveau ('House of the New Art'), an art gallery opened in Paris in 1895 by the Franco-German art dealer Siegfried Bing.
Liberty style (Italian: stile Liberty [ˈstiːle ˈliːberti]) was the Italian variant of Art Nouveau, which flourished between about 1890 and 1914.It was also sometimes known as stile floreale ("floral style"), arte nuova ("new art"), or stile moderno ("modern style" not to be confused with the Spanish variant of Art Nouveau which is Art Nouveau in Madrid).
The Timeline of Art Nouveau shows notable works and events of Art Nouveau (an international style of art, architecture and applied art) as well as of local movements included in it (Modernisme, Glasgow School, Vienna Secession, Jugendstil, Stile Liberty, Tiffany Style and others). Main events are written in bold.
Our guide to Art Nouveau architecture explores the late 19th-century movement known for flowing lines and organic forms and how it influenced the culture.
Egyptian Revival architecture 1809–1820s, 1840s, 1920s; Elizabethan architecture (1533–1603) Empire 1804–1814, 1870 revival; English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire) – 1713 (Treaty of Utrecht) Expressionist architecture 1910 – c. 1924; Farmhouse; Federal architecture 1780–1830 US; Federation architecture 1890–1915 Australia
Art Nouveau posters and graphic arts flourished and became an important vehicle of the style, thanks to the new technologies of color lithography and color printing, which allowed the creation of and distribution of the style to a vast audience in Europe, the United States and beyond. Art was no longer confined to art galleries, but could be ...