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Article: Neoclassicism
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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NEOCLASSICISM
NEOCLASSICISM.
One of the last truly international European aesthetic movements, neoclassicism
left virtually no aspect of visual culture untouched. Despite its practical and theoretical connections to the classical tradition of Western art, neoclassicism was perceived by eighteenth-century critics as a revolutionary rejection of the decadence of the baroque that had held sway since the early seventeenth century. In addition to its formal stylistic characteristics, which include a propensity toward the emulation of ancient Greco-Roman art and an emphasis on dignity, restraint, and grandeur of scale, neoclassical art was often endowed with an ideological imperative. ...
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