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Classicism: Severe form after the antique

In the later 18th century Classicism turned away from the Rococo, favouring clear contours, severe composition and subjects from antiquity, following the ideal of the scholar Winckelmann.


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Classicism: Severe form after the antique

In the later 18th century Classicism turned away from the Rococo, favouring clear contours, severe composition and subjects from antiquity, following the ideal of the scholar Winckelmann.

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Jacques-Louis David and Antonio Canova

Jacques-Louis David and Antonio Canova

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Classicism

Against the playful lightness of the Rococo, the second half of the eighteenth century set a stern ideal. In 1755 Johann Joachim Winckelmann had reduced Greek art to the formula of noble simplicity and quiet grandeur, and this formula became the programme of an entire generation. Firm contours, calm pictorial order and subjects from Roman history displaced the shepherd scene and the boudoir.

The new severity found its definitive expression in Paris. Jacques Louis David exhibited the Oath of the Horatii in 1785, a picture like a manifesto, three brothers swearing the oath on their swords before bare Roman architecture; in 1793, with the Death of Marat, he painted the devotional image of the Revolution. His pupil Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres carried the line far into the nineteenth century and defended the primacy of drawing against the colourists of his day. Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun showed at the same time that classicist clarity could be joined to courtly elegance.

In Germany Karl Friedrich Schinkel gave the ideal built and painted form, and Victorian England still drew on it when Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema bathed their scenes in marble and Mediterranean light. This recourse to antiquity was never mere copying but in each case a claim about one's own age, about civic virtue, the state and taste.

Classicism

Against the playful lightness of the Rococo, the second half of the eighteenth century set a stern ideal. In 1755 Johann Joachim Winckelmann had reduced Greek art to the formula of noble simplicity and quiet grandeur, and this formula became the programme of an entire generation. Firm contours, calm pictorial order and subjects from Roman history displaced the shepherd scene and the boudoir.

The new severity found its definitive expression in Paris. Jacques Louis David exhibited the Oath of the Horatii in 1785, a picture like a manifesto, three brothers swearing the oath on their swords before bare Roman architecture; in 1793, with the Death of Marat, he painted the devotional image of the Revolution. His pupil Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres carried the line far into the nineteenth century and defended the primacy of drawing against the colourists of his day. Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun showed at the same time that classicist clarity could be joined to courtly elegance.

In Germany Karl Friedrich Schinkel gave the ideal built and painted form, and Victorian England still drew on it when Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma-Tadema bathed their scenes in marble and Mediterranean light. This recourse to antiquity was never mere copying but in each case a claim about one's own age, about civic virtue, the state and taste.


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Personalizing your art print at Meisterdrucke is simple and intuitive: Choose a frame, set the image size, pick a printing medium, and add suitable glazing or a stretcher frame. We also offer additional customization options like mats, fillets, and spacers. If you have any questions, our customer service team is ready to help you create your perfect artwork.

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