classicism

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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

Classicism and modernism also coexist in many of his ballets, not least the five others on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s programs.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018

But a parallel situation also manifested itself in Britain, and that is now the subject of “The Mythic Method: Classicism in British Art 1920-1950,” the first exhibition of its kind.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016

In the following year he published a book, entitled Contemporary French Painters, and in 1868 a continuation, Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various