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Neoclassical Paintings

the neoclassical period

Neoclassicism is a term that represents the movements that took place in Western visual and decorative arts that were inspired by the art and culture from Ancient Greece and Rome. Neoclassicism was a revival of this Classical style; where technical skill, balance, and exact form were favored over the artist’s individuality.

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Parnassus  (1761) Anton Raphael Mengs

#2

The Death of General Wolfe (1770) Benjamin West

#3

Oath of the Horatii  (1784) Jacques-Louis David

#4

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures  (c. 1785) Angelica Kauffmann

#5

King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia  (1786 – 1788) James Barry

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Self-Portrait with Her Daughter (1789) Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

#7

The Death of Marat  (1793) Jacques-Louis David

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The Turkish Bath  (c. 1852 – 1862)  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#9

The Birth of Venus  (1879) William-Adolphe Bouguereau

#10

Mischief and Repose  (1895) John William Godward