Neoclassicism
The style of Western painting that grew in reaction to the emotional expression of Romanticism, characterized by techniques that emphasize reality.
Neoclassicism
The style of Western painting that grew in reaction to the emotional expression of Romanticism, characterized by techniques that emphasize reality.
Basics to get you started
Classic, classical, and classicism explained
The Age of Enlightenment, an introduction
Neoclassicism, an introduction
Classical orders of architecture explained
Josiah Wedgwood: tycoon of taste
The Academy of San Carlos
The formation of a French school: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Local art appropriation in France—a study of the loot in the Louvre Museum
Conserving Old Master Drawings
A brief history of the art museum
Napoleon’s appropriation of Italian cultural treasures
Works of Art
Artists
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784, oil on canvas, 3.3 x 4.25 m, painted in Rome, exhibited at the salon of 1785 (Musée du Louvre)
