Classicism
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Classicism, a movement in art, based on antique and Renaissance heritage, and is often times associated specifically with architecture. It lasted roughly from 1600 until 1800. As a movement classicism looked back to the arts of the classic period (pagan Greece and Rome) and sought inspiration there.[1]
Classicism is also an association to certain beliefs spanning St. Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Jefferson.[2]
President Trump signed an executive order with regard to making buildings in D.C. look like their classical origins.[3][4]
Nicolas Poussin, The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus.