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Neoclassicism

Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome

Entityart movement style art styleQ14378

Instance of: art movement
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Subclass of: Western art

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Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was born in Rome, largely due to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann during the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Its popularity expanded throughout Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals. The main Neoclassical movement emerged from the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, and reached its peak in the early-to-mid-19th century, eventually competing with Romanticism. In architecture, the style endured throughout the 19th, 20th, and into the 21st century.

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Started: 1760
Ended: 1830
OpenStreetMap tag: building:architecture=neoclassicism
Said to be the same as: neoclassical art
Different from: neoclassicism
Followed by: Romanticism
Based on: Classicism
Significant person: Jacques-Louis David
Antonio Canova
Anton Raphael Mengs
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Joseph Vien

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