Neoclassicism
1760–1830 · Event
Fired by the excavations at Pompeii and Winckelmann's histories, artists and architects returned to Greek and Roman models — David's canvases, Canova's marbles, and columned facades from Paris to Washington.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
Around 1760
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)