classicism

Meanings

Plural: classicisms

Noun

• a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
  • "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"
• All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
• Classical scholarship.
• A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.

Synonyms

classicalism

Antonyms

Romanticism