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Classicism

Art movement; architectural style

Entityart movement architectural styleQ170292

Also known as classicistisc style

Instance of: art movement
, architectural style

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Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, clarity of structure, perfection and restrained emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the intellect.

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Started: 1660
Ended: 1725
Followed by: Age of Enlightenment
Nazarene movement
Subject named as: Klassizismus
Has effect: Romanticism
Opposite of: Baroque

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