“The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.” Johann Joachim Winckelmann, founder of modern archeology and art history, praised the Greeks and ...

Roaming Europe, we admire stately Neoclassical buildings and dramatic Romantic paintings. Around 1800, Europe was in transition, reflected in two art styles. First, we visit Europe’s great cities with ...

Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death (around 1788), created by Guillaume Lethière when he was in his 20s, helped make the artist’s name Courtesy Clark Art Institute Neo-Classicism, arguably the world’s ...

Neoclassicism — an 18th-century movement of European and American artists, architects and designers who sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman aesthetics - produced its share of iconic artworks and ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These minds do indeed transcend, however, in “Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800,” currently on display ...