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What does classicism mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
  2. (uncountable) Classical scholarship.
  3. (countable) A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.
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Architecture after about 1580 was inspired by medieval ideals of chivalry as much as by Renaissance classicism.
In spite of postmodernism's loosening of the modernist canon, the stigma against classicism remains robust.
The imposing entrance portico supported by six fluted Doric columns was probably the first exercise in classicism in Deadwood.
Likewise, in the Metamorphoses Ovid subverts the epic, the literary genre best suited to Augustus's program of cultural classicism.
Before classicism can again occupy a central place in our lives, a monstrous libel must first be undone.
His classicism is evident not only in his frequent quotations from classical literature, but often in his style.

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