Classicizing

Word CLASSICIZING
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Definitions and meanings of "Classicizing"

What do we mean by classicizing?

To make classic.

To conform to the classic style.

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The word "classicizing" in example sentences

Since these had been elements of Clementi's music for a long time, it is no surprise that he should have made common cause with these proto-Romantic or "classicizing" composers. ❋ Unknown (1996)

By the time Van Hoogstraten was writing, Rembrandt's chiaroscuro manner had lost favor, a blonder tonality and more classicizing drawing style having come into vogue. ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2012)

All around this pungently classicizing, colonnaded plaza are dotted many other bronze statues on an even grander scale: colossal bison, bucking contortionist cowboys, and lithe gun-toting Navajo braves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The London painting, by contrast, "is conceived in a High Renaissance idiom" with "classicizing simplicity" and the painting has sculptural properties, with the figures projecting "into our space." ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

The main entrance on the Mall is ascended by a flight of steps through large columns bearing a pediment behind which rises a stepped dome, a sort of Pantheon, evoking not only the heritage of Greece and Rome but the architecture of the early Republic seen in classicizing buildings like the Treasury Department and the Capitol. ❋ Bruce Cole (2010)

Combining athletic male figures at rest, in motion and in a variety of vaguely classicizing poses, Eakins laid bare his belief that a modern painting could espouse a classical sensibility. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A schematic male profile made circa 1512-13, when D rer had been back in Nuremberg for about five years, reprises the idealized, classicizing, rather insipid features of Adam, albeit with the hint of a double chin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Donatello's acclaimed sculptures in the most up-to-date classicizing Tuscan style and Mantegna's renowned (now ruined) frescoes with their ­exacting allusions to the ancient world were available for the teenage virtuoso to study, and he may have gained even more knowledge of the past by restoring actual antique statues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the end, though, it's the fusion of emotional ­intensity, classicizing discipline and Renaissance invention in Tullio Lombardo's sculptures that demands our attention — a lot from a small, concentrated show. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The family were masters of references to antiquity, ­designing the tombs of doges to hint at triumphal arches, outlining them with classicizing moldings, pilasters and columns, and populating them with robust saints and warriors in Roman armor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are grotesque German "creature" helmets, like something out of Dürer, classicizing Italian pieces with mythological scenes, a suit of "Roman style" armor, like steel fancy dress, and a set of equestrian armor that turns a steed into a scaly, firebreathing dragon cum unicorn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Corot was born in Paris and studied there with the classicizing painters Michallon and Bertin before leaving in 1825 for the first of three visits he made to Italy. 1825-28, 1834 and 1843 ❋ Unknown (2009)

Theophylact Simocatta, who wrote in the early seventh century during the reign of Heraclius (Herakleios) (610-41), was the last in the succession of secular classicizing historians devoted mainly to the military, diplomatic, and political history of the Roman empire. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because of this, he goes on to say, "pop is a classicizing aesthetic, not an innovating, modernizing one". ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2007)

Unlike Rivera, whose classicizing compositions stress horizontals and verticals, Orozco uses a diagonal thrust to bring the pain of his subject home. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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