4.18 Cultural periods, movements and styles

Capitalize nouns and adjectives designating literary, philosophical, musical, religious and artistic periods, movements and styles when they are derived from proper nouns:

• Aristotelian logic
• Cartesian dualism
• the Bauhaus
• Gregorian chant
• Romanesque architecture
• Arianism
• Methodism
• Hasidism

Otherwise, such terms are lower-cased except when it is necessary to distinguish a style or movement from the same word used in its general sense:

• cubism
• existentialism
• humanism
• rococo
• the New Criticism
• the Group of Seven
• the Enlightenment
• Scholasticism

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