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Classicalism

noun
1.
A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.  Synonym: classicism.






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"Classicalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... merely wasted wealth or distempered conception which we have to regret in this Renaissance architecture: but we shall find in it partly the root, partly the expression of certain dominant evils of modern times—over-sophistication and ignorant classicalism; the one destroying the healthfulness of general society, the other rendering our schools and universities useless to a large number of the ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 • Various



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