Every Movement / Rome, Paris c. 1760 to 1830

Neoclassicism

Rome and Greece as the moral corrective. Straight lines, clear light, civic virtue over pleasure.

Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Louvre, Paris.
When
c. 1760 to 1830
Where
Rome, Paris
Who
Jacques-Louis David, Ingres, Canova, Angelica Kauffman
Source
Wikipedia ↗ / Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
← Rococo
Grew out of
← Ancient Greek← Rococo
Led to
Academic art →Romanticism →
Provoked
Romanticism →