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Noun: classicalism
  1. A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favoured rationality and restraint and strict forms
    "classicalism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans";
    - classicism

Derived forms: classicalisms

Type of: artistic style, arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, idiom, liberal arts

Antonym: Romantic Movement

Encyclopedia: Classicalism