Sentences with phrase «romantic classicism»

The buildings of John Soane (1753 - 1837), the most original English architect of the period, share many of the characteristics of French Romantic classicism and particularly the taste for simpler forms, but they also owe much to the Picturesque and to Robert Adam's domestic work.

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Students critique several dramatic works in terms of other aesthetic philosophies (such as the underlying ethos of Greek drama, French classicism with its unities of time and place, Shakespeare and romantic forms, India classical drama, Japanese kabuki, and others)

Change classicism for modernism and you will find several places that will exceed your romantic expectations.

Théodore Chassériau died young, as «the unknown Romantic,» but his short career took in Classicism, a foretaste of academic doldrums, and a hall of mirrors.

Rossetti and Brown are two of the three founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) that, piqued by religious and Romantic fervor in mid-19th-century Victorian England, renounced classicism in favor of the flattened mystery of quattrocento painting.

In a statement she wrote on the occasion of a 1942 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art she laid out precisely what she meant by this term: «By Classicism I mean, not traditionalism of any sort, but a highly conscious concern with esthetic structure which is the antithesis of intuitive, romantic, or realistic approaches to painting.