Since these had been elements of Clementi's music for a long time, it is no surprise that he should have made common cause with these proto-Romantic or "classicizing" composers. From Wordnik.com. [Finished Symphonies] Reference
Because of this, he goes on to say, "pop is a classicizing aesthetic, not an innovating, modernizing one". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The classical and classicizing 17th century philosophical legacy they drew upon was shared with those whom they drove into exile. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-13] Reference
My work focused on Gustav von Aschenbach's classicizing rhetoric and its implications vis-à-vis Friedrich Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragödie. From Wordnik.com. ["Hard it as may be, I know you should be with me"] Reference
Corot was born in Paris and studied there with the classicizing painters Michallon and Bertin before leaving in 1825 for the first of three visits he made to Italy. 1825-28, 1834 and 1843. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
All around this pungently classicizing, colonnaded plaza are dotted many other bronze statues on an even grander scale: colossal bison, bucking contortionist cowboys, and lithe gun-toting Navajo braves. From Wordnik.com. [We're the Hekawi] Reference
In the end, though, it's the fusion of emotional intensity, classicizing discipline and Renaissance invention in Tullio Lombardo's sculptures that demands our attention — a lot from a small, concentrated show. From Wordnik.com. [Tenderness Out of Stone] Reference
Certain Renaissance figures became invested with a mean - ing which, for all their classicizing appearance, had not been present in their classical prototypes, though it had fre - quently been foreshadowed in classical literature. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
The family were masters of references to antiquity, designing the tombs of doges to hint at triumphal arches, outlining them with classicizing moldings, pilasters and columns, and populating them with robust saints and warriors in Roman armor. From Wordnik.com. [Tenderness Out of Stone] Reference
Theophylact Simocatta, who wrote in the early seventh century during the reign of Heraclius (Herakleios) (610-41), was the last in the succession of secular classicizing historians devoted mainly to the military, diplomatic, and political history of the Roman empire. From Wordnik.com. [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » 2009 » July] Reference
The affinity of early twentieth-century art to that of the Stone Age is only one manifestation of its huge historical voracity, and to confront Miro and Klee with cave painting is no more revealing than to confront Picasso's classicizing figures with the Parthenon pediments. From Wordnik.com. [Dim Beginnings] Reference
Donatello's acclaimed sculptures in the most up-to-date classicizing Tuscan style and Mantegna's renowned (now ruined) frescoes with their exacting allusions to the ancient world were available for the teenage virtuoso to study, and he may have gained even more knowledge of the past by restoring actual antique statues. From Wordnik.com. [Tenderness Out of Stone] Reference
The main entrance on the Mall is ascended by a flight of steps through large columns bearing a pediment behind which rises a stepped dome, a sort of Pantheon, evoking not only the heritage of Greece and Rome but the architecture of the early Republic seen in classicizing buildings like the Treasury Department and the Capitol. From Wordnik.com. [A Capital Idea] Reference
They were still more fully confirmed than the men of the Restoration in the conviction that the ancients had attained the highest possible perfection in literature, and some of them made absolute submission of judgment to the ancients, especially to the Latin poets and the Greek, Latin, and also the seventeenth century classicizing French critics. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
Indeed, concert-audiences had become bored to the point of exasperation with his classicizing compositions. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Elegant, finished, smooth, classicizing, the music of M. Camille Saint-Saëns leaves us in the completest of objectivity. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
For all its air of subtlety and severity and profundity, its learned and classicizing manner, the music of Reger is really superficial. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
These classicizing poems, which purport to express modern feeling in the terms of Greek mythology, sound now a little hollow and conventional. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Although the Metropolitan's Picasso collection cannot be said to be anywhere near as important as MoMA's-which has its share of classicizing masterworks, including. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Elegant and classicizing, these religious works are excellent illustrations of the mid-16th-century aesthetics of the Florentine court, traditionally interpreted as highly-stylized and non-personal or emotive. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
In addition to passing remarks, Gouguenheim devotes a separate chapter to the classicizing tendencies of the Syriac and Arab Christians, as distinct from their linguistic cousins and brethren in the Islamic faith. From Wordnik.com. [Assyrian International News Agency] Reference
The selection spans every period and area of Mapplethorpe's work, from his early Polaroids, collages, and mixed-media constructions to his iconic, classicizing photographs of male and female nudes, flowers, and statuary; his portraits of artists, celebrities, and acquaintances; and his more explicit depictions of the S. From Wordnik.com. [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference
The selection spans every period and area of Mapplethorpe's work, from his early Polaroids, collages, and mixed-media constructions to his iconic, classicizing photographs of male and female nudes, flowers, and statuary; his portraits of artists, celebrities, and acquaintances; and his more explicit depictions of the S&M underground. From Wordnik.com. [NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art] Reference
My reference to the Bauhaus was not barbed ” merely a way of indicating that the Ahrends, Burton and Koralek design was Modernist and without classicizing ornament. From Wordnik.com. [The National Gallery Competition] Reference
Unlike the twice warmed-over, late-1970s functionalism -- with a dash of color -- that we New Yorkers have come to expect, this eatery boasts mosaics, waterfalls, and classicizing murals that bring home the grandeur that was -- and in this case still is -- Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Deal New York - Latest News] Reference
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