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n.- An advocate of the literature of ancient Greece or Rome.

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  • The classicistic tradition
  • The failure of classicistic art in a non-classical age, of "Pre-Raphaelitism" after
  • The Empire style of Napoleon is classicistic: but Napoleon carried Werther and Ossian about with him.
  • This early hint at the rationalist explanation of chance images corresponds to the classicistic taste that domi - nated Roman art of the late Republic and the Augustan...
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