Style and Civilization: Neo-classicism

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By Hugh Honour. With 109 illustrations.

Neo-classicism, or the ‘true style’ as it was known in the eighteenth century, represented the growing reaction against the florid sensuality of the Rococo that had flourished until the French Revolution.

‘One of the most admirable ventures in British scholarly publishing … Its virtues and the quality of its achievement are known to art historians and deserve to be far more widely acknowledged.’ [The Times]