Week 9:
Describe the Beaux-Arts style by comparing Palais Garnier with another work from Classical Greece, Classical Rome, the Renaissance, or the Baroque.
The Palais Garnier is both similar and different to Karlskirche and the Winter Palace. Similar to Karlskirche, the building relies on a columned facade with a dome behind the tympanum. On the Palais Garnier, the dome is more shallow and there are two rounded tympani as opposed to one triangular. Similar between the Winter Palace and Palais Garnier are the figures on the roofline and the use of color. While the Winter Palace is bright turquoise, the opera house is simply ornamented with a plethora of gold leaf. All of the buildings mentioned are highly symmetrical and calculated and demonstrate twists on classical motifs.