Category:Classicism on stamps

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The art of the Classicism in Europe is the art of the most masterworks created in the years ca. 1740s-1840/50s. One is speaking (with fluent transitions) from:
a) Early Classic: for the time around 1740-1760, inclusively

- "Louis seize" and "style transition" in France
- "Late Georgian" in Great Britain
- the beginnings of the "Prussian Classic" in Germany

b) High Classic: for the time 1760 to the French Revolution
c) Late Classic for the time parallel and after the Napoleonic era in Europe:

- "Revolution style" in France to the end of the Napoleonic era
- "Restauration style" after the Napoleonic era
- "Empire" on the British islands, inclusively "Adamstyle", "Palladianism", ...etc.
- "Biedermeier" in Germany, Austria, Switzerland
- "Wiener Klassik" in Austria, "Russian Classic" in Russia, "Portuguese Classic", ...etc.

Predecessor art style: Rococo (Late Baroque)
Successor art style(s): Romanticism, art styles of the Historism (among others with the "Neoclassicism"), art of the Enlightenment, Eclecticism, beginnings of the Impressionism ...etc.
Parallel art style(s): Genre painting

A classicistic art style is characterized in the early phase by a reversion to the characteristica of the Early Renaissance and their Roman and Greek paragons under general turndown from the allegorical interpretations of the Baroque. The color composition get increasingly unimportant and takes a backseat. A transistion from one color to an other is sharper demarcated. Nevertheless of all motion have all gestures a certain measure of silence. The style combines symmetry, harmony and professionalism, and in association with that also a certain rational sobriety and severity.

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