classicism
noun
the principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome.
classicalism
-
a variation of
classicism.
Example Sentences
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There the pioneering impulse has passed out of life into stupid history books, and the inevitable classicalism, the fear of adventure, the superstition before social invention, have reasserted themselves.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
In Dutch furniture of this time one sees the reproduction of the Napoleonic fashion—the continuation of the Revolutionists' classicalism.
From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
Flaxman, to his credit, in spite of his classicalism, was one of the first to draw attention 32to the work.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer
We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
