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a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans
How To Use classicalism In A Sentence
- There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves. A Preface to Politics
- It is the most purely country classicalism in Europe and a refuge in village.
- The artist used a combination of impressionism and classicalism.
- The Church, on its side, drew away in the persons of its leaders from its earlier tradition, with all that it involved in the growth of a wholly new thought and art, and armed or hampered itself with that classicalism from which it never again got quite free. Latin Literature
- The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility. A Preface to Politics
- Our oil paintings have different styles such as classicalism, impressionism and realism, etc. Read on site We Blog A Lot
- In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism. A Preface to Politics
- Our oil paintings have different styles such as classicalism, impressionism and realism.
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. A Preface to Politics
- Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
