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Meanings of classicism in English

Russian
классицистический стиль
Portuguese
arte classicista
Spanish
clasicismo
Catalan
classicisme
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Art movement; architectural style.

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классицистический стиль
Portuguese
classicismo
Catalan
classicisme
Spanish
clasicismo

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

classicismo
Usage of classicism in English
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In Germany, French classicism had got an even firmer hold than in England.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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The Revolution even intensified the reigning classicism by giving it a republican turn.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
3
We regard as a decided mistake the revived classicism of the last generation.
Lectures and Essays
4
The green glass Lever Building of Park Avenue up against brutish Stalinist classicism.
The Guardian
5
Johnson's version is a shapeless blob of intuition, half-learned history and cod classicism.
The Guardian
6
It is now opposed to realism, as it was once opposed to classicism.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
7
But in Britain, classicism prevailed, interrupted by the odd flourish of art deco.
The Guardian
8
Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Haydn did not want to revolt against classicism, nor even pseudo-classicism.
Haydn
10
He became the lawgiver, the founder of classicism, the formulator of the academic ideal.
Artist and Public, and Other Essays on Art Subjects
11
The danger of arbitrary egoism is quite as great as the danger of classicism.
The Art of Letters
12
It lacks the self-complacent unreasonableness of Board of Works classicism.
A Modern Utopia
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This marriage of 21st-century urban sass with mid-century couture classicism was a happy one.
The Guardian
14
Chavannes's faraway, mysterious figures influenced the classicism of some of Picasso's early representational paintings.
The Guardian
15
That accounts for the somewhat florid classicism, and the melodic intensity, of his prose.
Poe
16
That Christian expression and classicism were incompatible, he never believed.
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
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