classicalism
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 • Syn: classicism • Ant: Romanticism (for: classicism) • Derivationally related forms: classicistic (for: classicism), classicist (for: classicism) • Hypernyms: humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts, artistic style, idiom
|
|