Classicism & Neoclassicism

Mid-18th Century to Early-19th Century Neoclassical Art is a severe, unemotional form of art harkening that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome. Its rigidity was a reaction to the overbred Rococo style and the emotional, Baroque style. Around 1800, Romanticism art emerged as a reaction to Neoclassicism. It did not really replace the Neoclassical style so much as act as a counterbalancing influence, and many artists were influenced by both styles to some degree.