classicism | ||
1. | [ noun ] (writing) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | |
Examples: | "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" |
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Related terms: | romanticism humanistic_discipline artistic_style neoclassicism | |
Similar spelling: |
classic classicist classicise classics classicistic classicize classical classically class_action class_act Clusiaceae |