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Classicism
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Definition
An architectural approach that draws from the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome — its orders, proportions, symmetry, and compositional rules. Classicism has been revived and reinterpreted in many periods: the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, and even today in New Urbanism.
Example
The Panthéon in Paris by Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1790) is a landmark of Neoclassicism — a Greek-cross plan, Roman dome, and Corinthian portico combined into a monument of rational clarity.
Key Figures
- — Andrea Palladio — Villa Rotonda
- — Inigo Jones — Banqueting House London
- — Karl Friedrich Schinkel — Altes Museum Berlin