Word: classicistic
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...classicist is no stranger to Harvard Square. Higbie spent her last two undergraduate years at Wellesley College, and recalls riding the shuttle to and from Cambridge on Saturdays to explore the Square and neighboring areas...
...living artist could learn from his dead superiors, and what Canova extracted from Greek sculpture -- which he knew largely from Roman copies -- was its sense of grace and felicity, its subtle play of volumes and surfaces and its search for idealization within nature. He was not a "Roman" classicist, creating emblems of political virtue like Jacques-Louis David. From all we know of Canova, he never seems to have had a thought about politics -- which must have been an advantage for a man who worked for so many courts, papal and royal. Despite the mythological framework he employed...
...then, in that department we have our own way of labeling literary history--Middle English, Renaissance, Classicist, Romantic, Modernist, Post-Modernist, Neo-Classicist, Formalist, Structural, Post-Structural, Deconstructionist, Post-Literal, Post-Lingual. And we think that television is killing books...
...word classicist today suggests pedantry. To the best minds of the Italian Renaissance it meant discovery and impassioned curiosity. We are too hobbled by provincialism in time to be able to goad ourselves into the excitement with which Mantegna and other Italian artists, architects and writers of the 15th century confronted the Antique: a buried civilization, an Atlantis below the hills and vineyards. What did it mean when Mantegna, in the early autumn of 1464, took off with two friends on a boat decked with carpets and laurel branches, punting around Lake Garda, twangling on the lute and looking...
...addition, Corporation members saw thesoftspoken, devoutly Christian classicist as a manwho would bring with him qualities that had beenlacking in Conant's impersonal researchuniversity...