classicalism

classicalism
noun
a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
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classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans

Syn: ↑classicism
Ant: ↑Romanticism (for: ↑classicism)
Derivationally related forms: ↑classicistic (for: ↑classicism), ↑classicist (for: ↑classicism)

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