"Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity."
This subfield studies a literary movement that emerged in the 18th century, which sought to revive classical standards of form and style, such as the works of Alexander Pope and John Dryden.
Neoclassical Literature: This is the literary genre that emerged during the 18th century characterized by a return to classical values and virtues, such as reason, clarity, and order.
Enlightenment: This is the intellectual movement that emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries, promoting reason and knowledge as the key to human progress.
Classical Antiquity: This refers to the culture and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome, which were the primary inspiration for neoclassical art and literature.
Augustan Age: This was a period in English literary history (1714-1744) that saw the rise of neoclassical writers like Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
Satire: This is a genre of writing that uses humor to expose and criticize human vices, follies, and weaknesses.
Classicism: This is the artistic and literary aesthetic that values order, balance, and symmetry, as well as the imitation of classical models.
Romanticism: This is a literary movement that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, characterized by a focus on emotions, individuality, and the natural world, in contrast to neoclassicism.
Epic Poetry: This is a long narrative poem that celebrates heroic deeds and people, with many neoclassical writers producing epics following the model of Homer.
Epic Simile: This is a specialized type of simile that compares an everyday object or situation to an epic event or character, often used in neoclassical epic poetry.
Human Reason: This refers to the neoclassical belief in the power of human reason and rationality, as opposed to emotions or instincts, to guide individuals and society.
Augustan Literature: This type of Neoclassicism was popular in the 18th century and favored rationality and reason over emotions and sentiments.
Enlightenment Literature: A movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by its emphasis on reason, science, and individualism.
Restoration Drama: This type of Neoclassical literature was popular in the late 17th century following the Restoration of the monarchy in England, and is known for its witty and satirical plays.
Romantic Classicism: A type of neoclassical literature that emphasized the individual and the imagination over reason and intellect.
Scottish Enlightenment: This type of Neoclassicism was led by a group of Scottish thinkers and writers in the 18th century, who emphasized the importance of reason, science, and human rationality.
Civic Humanism: Civic humanism is a type of Neoclassicism that combines a focus on republican virtues and civic engagement with a classical emphasis on the cultivation of individual character.
Classicism of Juan Meléndez Valdés: A Spanish Neoclassical poet of the Enlightenment period, known for his rational and enlightened style, and for his critique of feudalism and the power of the church.
Preromanticism: This is a type of Neoclassicism that served as a precursor to Romanticism, with a focus on the emotional and subjective elements of life, while still incorporating classical forms and structures.
"Neoclassicism was born in Rome largely thanks to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, at the time of the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum."
"its popularity spread across Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals."
"The main Neoclassical movement coincided with the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment and continued into the early 19th century."
"laterally competing with Romanticism."
"the style continued throughout the 19th, 20th, and up to the 21st century."
"European Neoclassicism in the visual arts began c. 1760 in opposition to the then-dominant Rococo style."
"Neoclassical architecture is based on the principles of simplicity and symmetry, which were seen as virtues of the arts of Rome and Ancient Greece."
"Each 'neo'-classicism selects some models among the range of possible classics that are available to it, and ignores others."
"the sculpture examples they actually embraced were more likely to be Roman copies of Hellenistic sculptures."
"They ignored both Archaic Greek art and the works of Late Antiquity."
"Neoclassicists' appreciation of Greek architecture was mediated through drawings and engravings, which subtly smoothed and regularized, 'corrected' and 'restored' the monuments of Greece, not always consciously."
"The Empire style, a second phase of Neoclassicism in architecture and the decorative arts, had its cultural center in Paris in the Napoleonic era."
"Neoclassicism remained a force long after the early 19th century, with periodic waves of revivalism into the 20th and even the 21st centuries."
"especially in the United States and Russia."
"Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, ornamentation, and asymmetry."
"the principles of simplicity and symmetry, which were seen as virtues of the arts of Rome and Ancient Greece."
"newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals."
"drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity."
"as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals."