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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Johann Peter Krafft influencedBy Neoclassicism
Yelagin Palace architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
Domingo de Petrés movement Neoclassicism
Charles-Louis Clérisseau movement Neoclassicism
Cardinal Alessandro Albani movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Alessandro Albani
Anton Raphael Mengs movement Neoclassicism
Anton Raphael Mengs influenced Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: European Neoclassicism
William Wetmore Story movement Neoclassicism
Boris Orlovsky movement Neoclassicism
Louis XV period followedBy Neoclassicism
Jean-François-Thérèse movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
Jean-François-Thérèse associatedWith Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
this entity surface form: French Neoclassicism
Decimus Burton movement Neoclassicism
Giovanni Battista Borra movement Neoclassicism
French classicism followedBy Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: French Neoclassicism
Henry Holland movement Neoclassicism
Johan Henric Kellgren movement Neoclassicism
Girl with a Broken Jug (sculpture in Catherine Park) genre Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Girl with a Broken Jug (Catherine Park)
Girl with a Broken Jug (sculpture in Catherine Park) artisticMovement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Girl with a Broken Jug (Catherine Park)
Italian Baroque followedBy Neoclassicism
Emma Hart movement Neoclassicism
Ugo Foscolo movement Neoclassicism
Andreas Kalvos movement Neoclassicism
Edward Hodges Baily movement Neoclassicism
William-Adolphe Bouguereau movement Neoclassicism
William-Adolphe Bouguereau influencedBy Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Neoclassical tradition
The Last Day of Pompeii (painting) influencedBy Neoclassicism
subject surface form: The Last Day of Pompeii
Italian Morning movement Neoclassicism
Bayeu movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Francisco Bayeu y Subías
Carl Ludvig Engel movement Neoclassicism
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson movement Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: American Neoclassicism
Portrait of James Madison movement Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: American Neoclassicism
The Death of Major Peirson movement Neoclassicism
John movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: John Singleton Copley
Luigi Vanvitelli movement Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Early Neoclassicism
painting "Daphnephoria" by Frederic Leighton movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Daphnephoria
this entity surface form: Victorian Neoclassicism
James Wyatt movement Neoclassicism
Carl Ferdinand Langhans movement Neoclassicism
Directoire style hasInfluence Neoclassicism