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In American architecture, Neoclassicism was one expression of the American Renaissance movement, ca. 1890–1917; its last manifestation was in Beaux-Arts architecture, and its final large public projects were the Lincoln Memorial (highly criticized at the time), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (also heavily criticized by the ...
Igor Stravinsky, one of the most important and influential composers of the twentieth century. Neoclassicism in music was a twentieth-century trend, particularly current in the interwar period, in which composers sought to return to aesthetic precepts associated with the broadly defined concept of "classicism", namely order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint.
The American Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical fervor in the thirteen American colonies in the 18th to 19th century, which led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States.
His masterpiece, Portrait of Madame Recamier, represents the Neoclassical style with its balanced composition and refined lines. [3] Francisco Goya, portrait of La maja desnuda (1797-1800) In contrast to Neoclassicism's emphasis on reason and restraint, Romanticism [4] celebrated emotion, individualism, and the sublime. Romantic artists pursued ...
Neoclassicism or New Classicism, any of a number of movements in the fine arts, literature, theatre, music, language, and architecture beginning in the 17th century Neoclassical architecture, an architectural style of the 18th and 19th centuries; Neoclassical sculpture, a sculptural style of the 18th and 19th centuries
Powers and his autograph, c. 1863 The Greek Slave Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor.He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave.
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This category is about Neoclassicism in music, as it existed as an art movement from the early 20th century on.. Neoclassicism in music differs from Neoclassicism in plastic arts and writing: Neoclassicism in plastic arts and writing is a style that revives the imagery and forms of classical antiquity: the art movement that exemplifies this kind of neoclassicism had its peak in late 18th ...