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Definition of Classicistic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to classicism. "The classicistic tradition"
Definition of Classicistic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to classicism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Classicistic
1. [adj]
Literary usage of Classicistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1906)
"the classicistic sculpture of the Ara Facia; but a glance at the Odyssey landscapes
is sufficient to show that their summary treatment of landscape and ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"2i and 22), and the contrast is remarkable between the classicistic representation
of the apotheosis of Antoninus and ..."
3. Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells (1891)
"... and come into the great hall frescoed by Luca Giordano, where his classicistic
fables swim overhead in immeasurable light. They still have the air, ..."
4. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"It is folly to see in this effort a mere classicistic tendency ; it was a
presentiment of that which moves us to-day, and begins to take tangible shape ..."
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