Classicism


 * Classicism:** Classicism is a philosophy of art and life that emphasizes order, balance, and simplicity. The ancient Greeks were the first great classicists. Later, the Romans, French, English, and others produced Classical movements. Each group developed its own unique characteristics, but all reflected certain common ideals of art, humanity, and the world.


 * Historical Context:** The origins of Classicism are traceable to ancient Greece. Although Greek history includes the Golden Age, the fifth century B.C., one of the greatest periods of cultural development in Western civilization, it was often the negative aspects of their history—the events of war, of plague, and of a Golden Age lost—that became a source of inspiration for Greek classical writters.


 * Representative authors:** Some of authors of classicism would be: Edwin A. Abott, John Quincy Adams, Jane Addams, Aesop, Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Horacio Alger jr., Sherwood Anderson, Victor Appleton, and Gustave Le Bon. These are all but a few of those authors which write in a classic (classicism) style.

The principles of classicism were derived from the practices and guidelines of the ancients, and the term has come to mean adherence to specific academic canons. The first major revival of classicism was during the Renaissance resulting from a fresh interest in Roman and Greek culture. Again in the 18th century the interest in classicism was sparked by the discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii; this period is defined as neoclassicism and is considered to be phase one of the romantic movement.
 * Classicism's common themes**: One of the common themes of classicism is Allegory: A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings. Also many classical literary works include Ambiguity: A statement which can contain two or more meanings. They also contain Aphorisms, Catastrophe, and ofcourse classicism: A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece and Rome. It differs from Romanticism in that while Romanticism dwells on the emotional impact of a work, classicism concerns itself with form and discipline.
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 * Examples of Classicism art:**

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marble sarcophogus of the romano-helenistic classicism period.