classicism

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Beethoven’s extremes — the consummate Classicism of the First, and the controlled excess of the Ninth — were absorbing but imperfect in this reading.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2022

Classicism doesn’t generate much excitement these days, even though there is plenty of barbarism to go around, but the concise and revealing Getty show digs deep.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Classicism had also been a feature of medieval art, while the artist, not yet even a monk, wouldn’t travel to Rome until he was in his 40s.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2019

“In Rolland’s dream of a modern synthesis of Classicism and the post-Wagnerian a political, ethical ideology takes center stage,” Mr. Botstein writes.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2012

We must content ourselves, however, with referring to but one example more; a conversation between herself and a young Frenchman, about Romanticism and Classicism, which she has detailed in her first volume.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert