Art Nouveau, or "new art" in French, is an architectural and artistic movement that emerged in ... from more traditional styles, such as neoclassicism and Gothic Revival, in favor of developing ...

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, founder of modern archeology and art history, praised the Greeks ... is a very important neoclassical characteristic that helps create a harmonious and balanced ...

Neoclassical architecture is a design movement that emerged in the mid-18th ... and Pompeii reignited interest in Greco-Roman art and architecture. The rational geometry and structural clarity ...

as the pastel frivolity of the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists adopted a narrative Neoclassicism as their predominant mode, drawing on ancient Greek and ...

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