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"

Related terms: romanticism humanistic_discipline artistic_style neoclassicism
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