In the arts, Neoclassicism is a historical tradition or aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity. The movement started around the 18th-century, age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th-century The general credo associated with the aesthetic attitude of Classicism was that art had to be rational and therefore morally better. Neoclassicists also believed that art should be cerebral, not sensual and therefore characterised by clarity of form, sober colours and shallow space. It was a reaction against both the surviving Baroque and Rococo styles, and a desire to return to the perceived ""purity"" of the arts of Rome. The important artists of the movement include the sculptors Antonio Canova,Jean-Antoine Houdon and Bertel Thorvaldsen, and the painters J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David and Anton Raphael Mengs.
30 Millennia of Erotic Art
Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Joe A. Thomas, Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
book1000 Erotic Works of Genius
Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Joe A. Thomas, Victoria Charles
bookArt History Renaissance art
Victoria Charles
bookArt History Romanesque art
Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
bookL'art de l'Égypte ancienne. Histoire de l'art
Elie Faure, Victoria Charles
bookArt History The Viennese Secession
Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles
bookCaspar David Friedrich. Mystique et Nature
Victoria Charles
bookArt History Gothic art
Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
bookArt History Baroque art
Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles
bookArt History Art Deco
Victoria Charles
bookHistoire de l'art L'art gothique
Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl
bookArt History Rococo
Klaus H. Carl, Victoria Charles
book