klassisismi
Klassisismi, or klassisismi in Finnish discourse, is a European cultural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries that drew on ancient Greek and Roman art and architecture. It stressed order, clarity, proportion, and restrained decoration, adopting symmetrical facades, columns, pediments, and clean surfaces in architecture; in painting and sculpture it favored idealized forms and classical mythological or historical themes; in literature and music it valued balance, rational rhetoric, and civic virtue.
The movement arose in the wake of the Enlightenment and a revived interest in classical antiquity, aided
Key exponents and locales include French, Italian, German, British, and Russian architects and artists, among them
Decline began in the mid-19th century as Romanticism foregrounded emotion and individual genius. Nevertheless, klassisismi left