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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Bust of Buffon movement Neoclassicism
Bust of Marie Antoinette artMovement Neoclassicism
Gründerzeit architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
Harvey Lonsdale Elmes movement Neoclassicism
Henri Labrouste influencedBy Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: French Neoclassicism
Pygmalion and Galatea movement Neoclassicism
Mercury Attaching his Talaria genre Neoclassicism
Mercury Fastening his Sandals genre Neoclassicism
Adam family of architects movement Neoclassicism
François-André Vincent movement Neoclassicism
Doyen movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Gabriel-François Doyen
Pierre Rousseau movement Neoclassicism
To Penshurst literaryMovement Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: English Neoclassicism (early)
Classicism relatedTo Neoclassicism
Ricardo Reis literaryMovement Neoclassicism
Piranesi prints artMovement Neoclassicism
Venus Victrix movement Neoclassicism
Adam style movement Neoclassicism
The Fire of Rome movement Neoclassicism
Giovanni Battista Piranesi movement Neoclassicism
Giovanni Antonio Medrano culturalContext Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Italian Neoclassicism
Royal Villa of Monza (attributed design influence) architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Royal Villa of Monza
Robert des Ruines movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Hubert Robert
Palazzo Greppi architecturalStyle Neoclassicism
Elizabeth Shewell movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: Benjamin West
Roman art influenced Neoclassicism
this entity surface form: Neoclassical art
Vittorio Alfieri movement Neoclassicism
Carle Vernet movement Neoclassicism
The Oath of Brutus movement Neoclassicism
The Death of Cato movement Neoclassicism
The Continence of Scipio movement Neoclassicism
The Rape of the Sabine Women movement Neoclassicism
subject surface form: The Rape of the Sabine Women (Hamilton)
Andromache Mourning Hector movement Neoclassicism
The Apotheosis of Homer movement Neoclassicism
Scenes from the Iliad series movement Neoclassicism
The Death of Priam movement Neoclassicism
Marie-Gabrielle Capet movement Neoclassicism
Ann Denman movement Neoclassicism
Archibald Elliot movement Neoclassicism