THE AGE OF CLASSICISM

What then is a Classic? A Classic is a work of high authority. It could mean

a literary work belonging to ancient Greece or Rome or a writer or his/her work that is of such high quality/merit — that, it is acknowledged as

excellent.

The influence of classicism was strong in France in the 17th and the 18th centuries, but its influence

was also felt very strongly in England at that time.

The Classic Age

CLASSICISM

is a body of doctrine thought to be derived from or

to reflect the qualities of ancient Greek and Roman

culture,.

the term refers to the admiration and imitation of

Greek and Roman literature, art, and architecture.

refers to the styles, rules, conventions and modes of the classical authors, and their influence on the works of later authors

The Renaissance

The first major revival of classicism

”Cosimo de' Medici” gathered a circle of

humanists who collected, studied,

expounded, and imitated the classics.

The Greek and Roman orders of

architecture were also revived during the

Renaissance and applied to ecclesiastical

designs.

• The classicism of the Renaissance led

formation of schools of art and music.

• The Renaissance also explicitly returned

to architectural models and techniques

associated with Greek and Roman

antiquity, including the golden rectangle as

a key proportion for buildings, the classical

orders of columns, as well as a host of

ornament and detail associated with Greek

and Roman architecture.

• Italy writers affected by the revival of

classical conventions included Francis

Bacon and Ben Jonson in England and

Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine in

France.

• Renaissance painters and sculptors

whose works reflect the classical influence

include Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and

Michelangelo.

PLAYWRITES• Major English

Renaissance authors

• William Shakespeare an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"

• BEN JONSON

contemporary of William

Shakespeare, he is best

known for his satirical

plays, particularly Volpone,

The Alchemist, and

Bartholomew Fair, which

are considered his

best,and his lyric poem

• Christopher Marlowe) was

an English dramatist, poet

and translator of the

Elizabethan era. Marlowe

was the foremost

Elizabethan tragedian of

his day

• William Wycherley an

English dramatist of the

Restoration period, best

known for the plays The

Country Wife and The

Plain Dealer.

• Edmund Spenser poet best

known for The Faerie Queene, an

epic poem and fantastical allegory

celebrating the Tudor dynasty and

Elizabeth I. He is recognised as

one of the premier craftsmen of

Modern English verse in its

infancy, and is considered one of

the greatest poets in the English

language.

In the theatre

• Classicism in the theatre was developed

by 17th century French playwrights from

what they judged to be the rules of Greek

classical theatre, including the "Classical

unities" of time, place and action, found in

the Poetics of Aristotle.

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They believe that nature in

universe was imitation or

mimesis.

Art is dangerous because when

human being see or hear art ,

they want to imitate it.

• Shakespeare's King Lear is considered a

classic of English literature and The

Scarlet Letter in American literature.

• The influence of these French rules on playwrights in other nations is debatable. In the English theatre,

• Restoration playwrights such as William Wycherlyand William Congreve would have been familiar with them.

• William Shakespeare and his contemporaries did not follow this Classicist philosophy, in particular since they were not French and also because they wrote several decades prior to their establishment.

• Those of Shakespeare's plays that seem to display the unities, such as The Tempest, probably indicate a familiarity with actual models from classical antiquity.

In architecture• Classicism in architecture developed during

the Italian Renaissance, notably in the writings and designs of Leon Battista Albertiand the work of Filippo Brunelleschi.

• Church architecture essentially continued in a late Gothic style until the Reformation, and then stopped almost completely, although church monuments, screens and other fittings often had classical styles from about the mid-century. The few new church buildings were usually still Gothic in style

England’s most significant

contribution the arts in the 17th

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• The 20th Century

• In early 20th-century Europe and the United States there was a renewed interest in Greek literature, and classical models were somewhat revived, as in the work of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot.

• Abstracted classical elements can be found in the paintings of Paul C¨¦zanne and Pablo Picasso, and in the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. A more overt classicism has found renewed acceptance among many postmodern architects in recent years. Spearheading the 20th-century neoclassical revival in music

• Prepared by:

• MANILYN

CABAYAO

• ANGEL

PALABRICA