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    Neoclassical art began in the 1760s and lasted until the 1850s. It emphasized linear design and classical themes based on Greek and Roman antiquity. Neoclassicism invoked harmony, clarity, and restraint. Three famous Neoclassical paintings include Anton Raphael Mengs' Parnassus from 1761, Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe from 1770, and Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii from 1784, which depicted a Roman legend and was hugely successful.

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    Neoclassical art began in the 1760s and lasted until the 1850s. It emphasized linear design and classical themes based on Greek and Roman antiquity. Neoclassicism invoked harmony, clarity, and restraint. Three famous Neoclassical paintings include Anton Raphael Mengs' Parnassus from 1761, Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe from 1770, and Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii from 1784, which depicted a Roman legend and was hugely successful.

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    Neoclassical art began in the 1760s and lasted until the 1850s. It emphasized linear design and classical themes based on Greek and Roman antiquity. Neoclassicism invoked harmony, clarity, and restraint. Three famous Neoclassical paintings include Anton Raphael Mengs' Parnassus from 1761, Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe from 1770, and Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii from 1784, which depicted a Roman legend and was hugely successful.

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    Neoclassical art, also called Neoclassicism and Classicism, a

    widespread and influential movement in painting and the other visual arts that
    began in the 1760s, reached its height in the 1780s and ’90s, and lasted until
    the 1840s and ’50s. In painting it generally took the form of an emphasis
    on austere linear design in the depiction of Classical themes and subject matter,
    using archaeologically correct settings and clothing. Neoclassicism in the arts
    is an aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity,
    which invokes harmony, clarity, restraint, universality, and idealism. In
    the context of the tradition, Classicism refers either to the art produced in
    antiquity or to later art inspired by that of antiquity, while Neoclassicism
    always refers to the art produced later but inspired by antiquity. Classicizing
    artists tend to prefer somewhat more specific qualities, which include line over
    colour, straight lines over curves, frontality and closed compositions over
    diagonal compositions into deep space, and the general over the particular.

    Parnassus (1761) by Anton Raphael Mengs


    Artist Anton Raphael Mengs

    Date Painted 1761

    Medium Oil on panel

    Dimensions 55 cm x 101 cm

    State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg,


    Where It Is Currently Housed Russia
    Anton Raphael Mengs’ painting Parnassus was created as a sketch of his masterful
    fresco in the Villa Albani in Rome. Mengs’ fresco contributed to establishing the
    ascendancy of Neoclassicism paintings. In his painting Parnassus, Mengs had
    broken away from the Baroque traditions and incorporated the Neoclassical style
    art conventions.
    The Death of General Wolfe (1770) by Benjamin West
    Artist Benjamin West

    Date Painted 1770

    Medium Oil on canvas

    Dimensions 151 cm x 213 cm

    Where It Is Currently Housed National Gallery of Canada


    Benjamin West was a British-American painter who became famous for his
    paintings of historical scenes. One of his most famous Neoclassical paintings
    was The Death of General Wolfe completed in 1770. The painting is a portrayal of the
    Battle of Quebec at the moment of General James Wolfe’s death. General Wolfe is
    the central figure on the battlefield, he is lying down and his propped-up body acts
    as the base of the pyramidal shape that is formed by his surrounding officers that
    peaks at the partially raised flag, displaying a triangular composition.
    Oath of the Horatii (1784) by Jacques-Louis David
    Artist Jacques-Louis David

    Date Painted 1784

    Medium Oil on canvas

    Dimensions 329.8 cm x 424.8 cm

    Where It Is Currently Housed Musée du Louvre, Paris, France


    The Neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David has been considered the pioneer of
    Neoclassical painting. David’s Oath of the Horatii was immediately considered hugely
    successful by the public and critics and is considered as one of the most famous
    Neoclassical paintings from the movement. David’s painting depicted a Roman
    legend; a scene about two cities at war, Alba Longa and Rome. Each city chooses
    three of its men to send to fight, rather than entire armies being sent to war.

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