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neo-classicism [1 record]

Record 1 2006-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

An aesthetic movement and artistic style which spread through Europe in the second half of the 18th c., combining reaction from Rococo and the excesses of the late Baroque with a new interest in the Antique.

OBS

... differs from previous classical revivals ... by the fact that it was a deliberate and conscious imitation of antique models.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

Formes d'art imitées ou renouvelées de l'Antiquité classique.

CONT

Le néo-classicisme se traduit par un style architectural plus austère, à tout le moins dans les extérieurs [...]

OBS

La phase néo-classique témoigne de l'impact de la redécouverte archéologique de la Rome antique [...] et de la Grèce.

OBS

néoclassicisme : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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