Is Renaissance painting and sculpture Classical?

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Submitted by GFS on Wed, 2006-12-06 15:41

Is Classicism in painting and sculpture limited to the works produced by ancient Greeks and Romans? What about the Renaissance? Themes were different, costumes were different, and I'm sure that's not all. I presume that Renaissance painting and sculpture is indeed vastly considered classical- so what aspects do the works of the Renaissance and ancient Greece and Rome have in common?

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This is a question of

Submitted by Austen Redman on Mon, 2007-01-29 09:32.

This is a question of definition and what you define Classicism against. One definition would oppose the Classical "static" against the Baroque "dynamic". I would say that Classicism recurs regularly in western art.

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There's definitely a cycle

Submitted by GFS on Wed, 2007-01-31 11:28.

There's definitely a cycle of revivals, and a cycle of classical popularity in the public realm. What I mean to ask, I suppose, is: where does classicism stop and something else begin? How do you KNOW when something isn't classical?