classicist

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Classicist Mary Beard pointed out that the ancient story has a “sting in the tale.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2022

In my naïveté, I once asked him whether it was better to be a Classicist or a Romantic.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

Pierre Boulez’s Berg is a known quality, and his “Chamber Concerto” is here clear, composed and almost Classicist.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2015

At heart she is a Classicist — in love with the golden section, Egyptian antiquities and Renaissance frescoes.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2011

This is materially inexact, since his qualities of draughtsmanship are those of a superb Classicist, and his colouring of very pure taste.

From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Mauclair, Camille