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a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

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  • Our oil paintings have different styles such as classicalism, impressionism and realism, etc. Read on site
  • Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.
  • In the arts we call this inveterate tendency classicalism.
  • The psychological descent into classicalism is always a strong possibility.
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