classicalism

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How came it to yield to Classicalism which was based on infidelity, and to oppose no barrier to innovations, which have reduced the once faithfully conceived imagery of its worship to stage decoration?

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

You have, then, the three periods: Classicalism, extending to the fall of the Roman empire; Mediævalism, extending from that fall to the close of the fifteenth century; and Modernism thenceforward to our days.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John

I say that Classicalism began, wherever civilization began, with Pagan Faith.

From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John