Neoclassicism

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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.

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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 Great Britain
surface form: Britain

France
Germany
Italy
United States of America
surface form: United States
influencedBy Age of Enlightenment
Ancient Greek art
Roman Antiquity
surface form: 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 architecture
surface form: Rococo
relatedMovement Biedermeier
Empire style
Federal architecture
Palladian architecture
surface form: Palladianism
timePeriod 18th century
early 19th century
typicalSubject historical scenes
moral exempla
mythological scenes
value civic virtue
patriotism
stoicism

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Antonio Zucchi movement Neoclassicism
Giovanni Battista Sommariva movement Neoclassicism
Thomas Kirk movement Neoclassicism
Dominique Vivant Denon de Bourdon (Bourdon family)? movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Dominique Vivant Denon
Ramón Bayeu y Subías movement Neoclassicism
Jean-Baptiste Isabey movement Neoclassicism
Gandolfi movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Mauro Gandolfi
Karl Blank movement Neoclassicism
Mengs movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Anton Raphael Mengs
Self-Portrait (c. 1775) movement Neoclassicism
The Libyan Sibyl (sculpture) movement Neoclassicism
Richard Mique movement Neoclassicism
Bartolomeo Pinelli movement Neoclassicism
Virginio Vespignani movement Neoclassicism
Louis XVI period movement Neoclassicism