Neoclassicism

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architectural style art movement intellectual movement literary movement music style

Neoclassicism is an 18th- and early 19th-century artistic and intellectual movement that revived the ideals, forms, and themes of classical antiquity, emphasizing order, rationality, and moral seriousness.

Aliases (15)

Neoclassical art ×5
French Neoclassicism ×4
French neoclassicism ×2
British neoclassicism ×1
Enlightenment-era Neoclassicism ×1
European Neoclassical sculpture ×1
Italian Neoclassicism ×1
Neoclassical Period ×1
Neoclassical aesthetics ×1
Neoclassicism (original school buildings) ×1
Neoclassicism in music ×1
Neoclassicism in painting ×1
Neoclassicists ×1
New Classicism ×1
early Neoclassicism ×1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural style → art movement → intellectual movement → literary movement → music style →
aestheticIdeal	calm grandeur → noble simplicity →
architecturalFeature	columns → domes → pediments → symmetrical façades →
associatedWith	French Revolution → Grand Tour → Napoleonic era → archaeological discoveries at Herculaneum → archaeological discoveries at Pompeii →
emphasizes	clarity → harmony → moral seriousness → order → rationality → restraint →
field	architecture → literature → music → painting → sculpture → theatre →
geographicScope	Britain → France → Germany → Italy → United States →
influencedBy	Age of Enlightenment → Ancient Greek art → Ancient Roman art → classical antiquity →
majorFigure	Angelica Kauffman → Antonio Canova → Antonio Salieri → Benjamin West → Christoph Willibald Gluck → Claude Nicolas Ledoux → Jacques-Louis David → Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres → Johann Joachim Winckelmann → John Flaxman → Karl Friedrich Schinkel → Robert Adam → Étienne-Louis Boullée →
precedes	Romanticism →
reactionAgainst	Baroque → Rococo →
relatedMovement	Biedermeier → Empire style → Federal architecture → Palladianism →
timePeriod	18th century → early 19th century →
typicalSubject	historical scenes → moral exempla → mythological scenes →
value	civic virtue → patriotism → stoicism →

Referenced by (124)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard → Alexander Pope → Ange-Jacques Gabriel → Ange-Jacques Gabriel ("French neoclassicism") → Antoine-Jean Gros → Antonio Canova → Auguste de Montferrand → Benjamin Henry Latrobe → Benjamin West → Canova → Carlo Rossi → Claude Nicolas Ledoux → Edmé Bouchardon → Eduard Jobst Siedler → Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun → Emma Hamilton → Francisco Bayeu → Gabriel-François Doyen → Giuseppe Piermarini → Hubert Robert → Ivar Tengbom → Jacques Ignace Hittorff → Jacques-Louis David → James Adam → Jean-Antoine Houdon → Jean-Arnaud Raymond → Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres → Jean-Baptiste Greuze → Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre → Jean-Baptiste Pigalle → Jean-Baptiste Regnault → Jean-Baptiste Regnault ("French Neoclassicism") → Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin → Jean-Pierre Cortot → Joaquín Toesca → Johann Joachim Winckelmann → John Flaxman → John Russell Pope → John Singleton Copley → Joseph Vernet → Joseph-Marie Vien → Karl Friedrich Schinkel → La Mort de Socrate → Leonidas at Thermopylae → Louis Lamothe → Mars Being Disarmed by Venus → Maurice Ravel ("Neoclassicism in music") → Molière → Napoleon Crossing the Alps → Portrait of Madame Récamier → Robert Adam → Robert Mills → Samuel Johnson → Sir John Soane → The Coronation of Napoleon → The Death of Marat → The Death of Socrates → The Distribution of the Eagle Standards → The Intervention of the Sabine Women → The Oath of the Horatii → The Tennis Court Oath (unfinished) ("Neoclassical art") → Thomas Crawford → Venus Victrix (Canova) → William Adam the Younger → William Wilkins → Étienne-Louis Boullée → Étienne-Maurice Falconet →	movement
Adam Brothers → Arkhangelskoye Estate → Bauhaus Weimar ("Neoclassicism (original school buildings)") → Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley Park → Faaborg Museum → General Staff Building → Gilles-Barnabé Guimard → Hoechst Administration Building → Hôtel de Salm → Marble Palace →	architecturalStyle
Academic art → Art Deco → European philhellenic movement → Fyodor Bruni → Giuseppe Piermarini ("Enlightenment-era Neoclassicism") → Joaquín Toesca ("Italian Neoclassicism") → Pre-Romanticism → Wight and Wight → Wotton House remodeling ("British neoclassicism") →	influencedBy
Arcadia ("Neoclassical art") → Greco-Roman mythology ("Neoclassical art") → Johann Joachim Winckelmann ("Neoclassical art") → Johann Joachim Winckelmann ("Neoclassical aesthetics") → John Flaxman ("European Neoclassical sculpture") →	influenced
Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley Park → Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace → Le Triomphe de 1810 →	artMovement
American Romanticism → Barbizon school ("Neoclassicism in painting") → Sturm und Drang ("French neoclassicism") →	opposedTo
The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam →	architecturalMovement
Juliette Récamier →	artisticMovementContext
Étienne-Maurice Falconet ("early Neoclassicism") →	artisticStyle
La Mort de Socrate ("French Neoclassicism") →	artMovementContext
The Intervention of the Sabine Women →	artStyle
Charlotte Pécoul →	associatedWithArtMovement
Old Masters →	associatedWithPeriod
Impressionism →	contrastsWith
La Distribution des Aigles →	creatorMovement
Rococo architecture ("Neoclassicists") →	criticizedBy
Salon of 1787 ("French Neoclassicism") →	culturalContext
Empire style →	follows
The Tennis Court Oath (unfinished) →	genre
Saloon at Kedleston Hall →	hasArchitecturalMovement
Drawing Room at Syon House →	hasArtisticMovement
Portrait of Madame Récamier ("French Neoclassicism") →	hasArtisticSchool
murder of Jean-Paul Marat ("Neoclassical art") →	hasCulturalDepictionGenre
Nordic Classicism →	hasInfluence
Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London →	literaryMovement
Greek Revival architecture →	movementAssociatedWith
Neoclassical architecture →	partOf
Pablo Picasso ("Neoclassical Period") →	period
Pre-Romanticism →	precededBy
Nordic Classicism ("New Classicism") →	relatedMovement
European philhellenic movement →	relatedTo
Tsarskoye Selo →	style
Wilhelminian style →	usesStyle