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Classicism is a specific genre of philosophy, expressing itself in literature, architecture, art, and music, which has Ancient Greek and Roman sources and an emphasis on society. It was particularly expressed in the Neoclassicism [4] of the Age of Enlightenment.
Classical art has been taken as a model in later periods – medieval Romanesque architecture [82] and Enlightenment-era neoclassical literature [11] were both influenced by classical models, to take but two examples, while James Joyce's Ulysses is one of the most influential works of twentieth-century literature. [83]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to classical studies: . Classical studies (Classics for short) – earliest branch of the humanities, which covers the languages, literature, history, art, and other cultural aspects of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Classical Antiquity is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all topics pertaining to the field of classics, including Greek and Roman literature, history, archaeology, art, philosophy and philology, from the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity.
It has shaped Western literature, art, and philosophy, providing a framework for exploring and expressing the complexities of the human experience. The works of Homer , Virgil , and Plato, among others, have inspired countless generations of artists, writers, and thinkers, ensuring that classical ideas remain a vital part of Western cultural ...
Vergil leading Dante on his journey in the Inferno, an image that dramatizes the continuity of the classical tradition [1] (Dante and Vergil in Hell by Delacroix, 1823). The Western classical tradition is the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially the post-classical West, [2] involving texts, imagery, objects, ideas, institutions, monuments, architecture ...
Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism. The sculpture of Classicism, the period immediately preceding the Hellenistic period, was built on a powerful ethical framework that had its bases in the archaic tradition of Greek society, where the ruling aristocracy had formulated for itself the ideal of arete, a set of virtues that should be cultivated for ...
Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981; Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990; Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 1992/2000