Classicism

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Classicism is an artistic and architectural movement that draws inspiration from the principles, forms, and aesthetics of ancient Greek and Roman art, emphasizing harmony, proportion, and restrained elegance.

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Label Occurrences
Classicism canonical 16

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf aesthetic doctrine
architectural movement
art movement
aestheticIdeal calm grandeur
noble simplicity
aimsFor timelessness
universality
associatedWith Palladian architecture
surface form: English Palladianism

French classicism
surface form: French Classicism

Italian Renaissance art
surface form: Italian Renaissance Classicism
contrastsWith Baroque
Romanticism
emphasizes balance
clarity
elegance
harmony
order
proportion
restraint
hasPrinciple adherence to rules
decorum
imitation of classical antiquity
proportion based on classical orders
unity of form
historicalPeriod 17th century
18th century
Renaissance
influences architecture
literature
music
painting
sculpture
theatre
inspiredBy ancient Greek art
ancient Roman art
relatedTo Neoclassicism
Renaissance art
academic art
uses classical orders of architecture
columns
entablatures
pediments
symmetrical facades
values formal discipline
geometric regularity
idealized beauty
rationality
symmetry

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Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

White Factory architecturalStyle Classicism
The Death of Germanicus movement Classicism
Le Misanthrope movement Classicism
L’Avare literaryPeriod Classicism
Dutch Classicism movementType Classicism
New Objectivity subMovement Classicism
Giosuè Carducci movement Classicism
Jean de La Fontaine movement Classicism
Anton Raphael Mengs movement Classicism
Redoutensäle (Redoutensaal halls) architecturalStyle Classicism
subject surface form: Redoutensäle
Domenichino movement Classicism
Pierre Corneille movement Classicism
Marmorpalais architecturalStyle Classicism
Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake (Poussin) movement Classicism
subject surface form: Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake