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Jacques-Louis David: Cupid and Psyche
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Category: Arts & Culture
Also called:
Neoclassicism and Classicism
Date:
c. 1760 - c. 1860
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Neoclassical art, a widespread and influential movement in painting and the other visual arts that began in the 1760s, reached its height in the 1780s and ’90s, and lasted until the 1840s and ’50s. In painting it generally took the form of an emphasis on austere linear design in the depiction of Classical themes and subject matter, using archaeologically correct settings and clothing. Neoclassicism in the arts is an aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity, which invokes harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism. In the context of the tradition, Classicism refers either to the ...(100 of 4111 words)

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