Neoclassical > Intro
Neoclassicism was the dominant aesthetic movement in Europe during
the eighteenth century. Artists and thinkers turned to what they
understood to be the values of classical Greece and (especially)
Rome, valuing order, harmony, balance and tradition in the work of
art. In England, the admiration of many eighteenth-century thinkers
for Imperial Rome, seen as a model for England’s own expanding
empire, led contemporaries to call their period “Augustan” after
the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus.
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