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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Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine artisticMovement Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: French Neoclassicism
Houdon movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Jean-Antoine Houdon
Bust of Voltaire movement Neoclassicism
Seated Voltaire genre Neoclassicism
Seated Voltaire movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Benjamin Franklin movement Neoclassicism
Winter (La Frileuse) movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Molière movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Molière artHistoricalContext Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: European Neoclassicism
Bust of Sophie Arnould genre Neoclassicism
Bust of Sophie Arnould movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Robert Fulton movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Louis XVI movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Denis Diderot movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Denis Diderot artStyle Neoclassicism
Bust of George Washington movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Madame Houdon genre Neoclassicism
Bust of Madame Houdon movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Turgot artMovement Neoclassicism
James Barry movement Neoclassicism
James Barry artisticStyle Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Neoclassical
Tempio Voltiano in Como architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Tempio Voltiano
Labille-Guiard movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
Portrait of Robespierre movement Neoclassicism
Portrait of Talleyrand movement Neoclassicism
Johan Tobias Sergel movement Neoclassicism
Johan Tobias Sergel influencedBy Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Neoclassical aesthetics
Carl von Gontard architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
horsemen of the frieze influenced Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Horsemen of the Frieze
this entity surface form: Neoclassical art
New Testament scenes artHistoricalPeriod Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Neoclassical art
József Hild movement Neoclassicism
Rococo followedBy Neoclassicism
Bust of Helvétius movement Neoclassicism
Greuze movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Brienner Straße, Munich architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Brienner Straße
Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat movement Neoclassicism
Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante movement Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Neoclassical art
Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante associatedWith Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: European Neoclassicism
Bust of La Fayette movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Buffon genre Neoclassicism