The classicistic tradition. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The failure of classicistic art in a non-classical age, of "Pre-Raphaelitism" after. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The Empire style of Napoleon is classicistic: but Napoleon carried Werther and Ossian about with him. From Wordnik.com. [CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference
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 era (note the references to classic Greek masters). From Wordnik.com. [CHANCE IMAGES] Reference
Ironically, the drawings were mostly classicistic ones set in an ancient Mediterranean world. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Review of Books] Reference
His work reflects the typical Italian "grandezza" and draws from those images (like the neo-classicistic ornaments in his prints), pushing them to the limits. From Wordnik.com. [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference
Most palaces, whether of the Gothic or classicistic period, have the same internal arrangement of halls and chambers, and are commonly built of two lofty and two low stories. From Wordnik.com. [Venetian Life] Reference
My last visit was paid after I had seen so many other English cathedrals that I had begun to say, if not to think, that England was overgothicized, and that I should be glad, or at least relieved, by something classicistic. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
In point of fact it was the classicistic Catullus and Calvus, of the simple, limpid lyrics, written in pure unalloyed every-day Latin, that taught the new generation to reject the later Hellenistic style of Catullus and Calvus as illustrated in the verse romances. From Wordnik.com. [Vergil]
They rested their sensibilities, so bruised and fretted by Gothic angles and points, against the smooth surfaces of the prevailing classicistic facades of the houses as they passed, and when they arrived at their hotel, an old mansion of Versailles type, fronting on a long irregular square planted with pollard sycamores, they said that it might as well have been Lucca. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
Classical and classicistic texts. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
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