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  2. Neoclassicism - Wikipedia

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    The art of Francesco Hayez and especially that of the Macchiaioli represented a break with the classical school, which came to an end as Italy unified (see Italian modern and contemporary art). Neoclassicism was the last Italian-born style, after the Renaissance and Baroque, to spread to all Western Art.

  3. Italian Neoclassical and 19th-century art - Wikipedia

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    The art of Francesco Hayez and especially that of the Macchiaioli represented a break with the classical school, which came to an end as Italy unified (see Italian modern and contemporary art). Neoclassicism was the last Italian-born style, after the Renaissance and Baroque, to spread to all Western Art.

  4. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    4 Baroque to Neoclassicism. 5 Romanticism. 6 Romanticism to modern art. ... Art of the Middle East. Mesopotamian; Egyptian; ... This page was last edited on 2 ...

  5. Decorum - Wikipedia

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    In classical rhetoric and poetic theory, decorum designates the appropriateness of style to subject. Both Aristotle (in, for example, his Poetics) and Horace (in his Ars Poetica) discussed the importance of appropriate style in epic, tragedy, comedy, etc. Horace says, for example: "A comic subject is not susceptible of treatment in a tragic style, and similarly the banquet of Thyestes cannot ...

  6. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...

  7. Classicism - Wikipedia

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    The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art. A violent emphasis or a sudden acceleration of rhythmic movement would have destroyed those qualities of balance and ...

  8. Neoclassical compound - Wikipedia

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    Neoclassical compounds are compound words composed from combining forms (which act as affixes or stems) derived from classical languages (classical Latin or ancient Greek) roots. Neo-Latin comprises many such words and is a substantial component of the technical and scientific lexicon of English and other languages, via international scientific ...

  9. 18th-century French art - Wikipedia

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    Neoclassicism in France; French neoclassical theatre; List of French artists of the eighteenth century; Louis XVI style; Louis XV furniture; Louis XVI furniture; the Wallace Collection, a free national gallery in London, one of the best places in the UK to see examples of French visual and decorative arts of the Rococo and neoclassical periods.