Neoclassicism


 * neo means new +classicism (Classics, Greek and Roman)
 * coincides with 18th century Age of Enlightenment- a cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th century Europe and America, whose purpose was to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted science and intellectual interchange and opposed superstition, intolerance and abuses in church and state.
 * competes with Romanticism, anti-Rococo
 * classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling, classical subject matter
 * bring back the columns, emphasis on architectural realism in paintings like Raphael, who emulated the Greeks

PHILOSOPHY > thinkers such as Rousseau, Hume and Voltaire
 * emphasis on science and reason, humanism
 * All human affairs ought to be ruled by reason and the common good rather than tradition and established authority (church and aristocracy)
 * age of Revolution (USA, France) time of the people, republics and democracy

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@http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/david-death-of-marat.html



@http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/john-singleton-copley.html @http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/copleys-watson-and-the-shark.html

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