Associations to the word «Classicism»
Noun
- Romanticism
- Modernism
- Weimar
- Neo
- Schiller
- Baroque
- Goethe
- Deco
- Beau
- Humanism
- Renaissance
- Romantic
- Realism
- Conservatism
- Enlightenment
- Picasso
- Haydn
- Architecture
- Friedrich
- Confucianism
- Style
- Gunnar
- Christoph
- Architect
- Mozart
- Herder
- Revival
- Antiquity
- Symbolism
- Amadeus
- Beethoven
- Wolfgang
- Raphael
- Johann
- Precedent
- Clarity
- Auguste
- Cicero
- Wren
- Aesthetics
- Coleridge
- Faber
- Xiv
- Ideal
- Allegory
- Detailing
- Nietzsche
- Experimentation
- Facade
- Helsinki
- Kinship
- Ancient
- Literature
- Proponent
- Nicolas
- François
Adjective
- Neo
- Baroque
- Nordic
- Renaissance
- Neoclassical
- Modernist
- Restrained
- Architectural
- Monumental
- Stylistic
- Classical
- Gothic
- Drastic
- Harmonious
- Eighteenth
- Austere
- Romantic
- Aesthetic
- Figurative
- Pseudo
- Simplified
- 18th
- Regency
- Socialist
- Prevailing
- Seventeenth
- Flemish
- Imitation
- 17th
- Literary
- Romanesque
- Favoured
- Poetic
- Transitional
- Refined
- Poetical
- Realistic
- Stately
Wiktionary
CLASSICISM, noun. (uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
CLASSICISM, noun. (uncountable) Classical scholarship.
CLASSICISM, noun. (countable) A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.
Dictionary definition
CLASSICISM, noun. A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans".
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