'Classicalism' definitions:
Definition of 'classicalism'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, classicalism] [ant: Romantic Movement, Romanticism]
Definition of 'Classicalism'
From: GCIDE
- Classicalism \Clas"sic*al*ism\, n.
- 1. A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art. [1913 Webster]
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