Category:Classicism on stamps

The art of the Classicism in Europa include roughly seen the most artworks created in the the years between the 1760s and the 1840s/1850s with transitions before and after.
Chronologically one is distinguishing between:

a) Early Classicislm

for the time 1740-1760 inclusively the European styles

- "Louis seize" and "Style transition" in (pre-Napoleonic) France and France-influenced regions

- "Late Georgian" in England and on the British Islands

b) High Classicism

for the time between 1760 to the French Revolution

c) Late Classicism

for the time parallel and after the Napoleonic era in France and France-influenced regions of Europe inclusively the styles

- "Revolution style" in France to the end of the Napoleonic era in France

- "Restauration style" in France after the Napoleonic era

- "Empire" on the British Islands inclusively "Adamstyle", "Palladianism", ...etc.

- "Biedermeier" in Germany, Austria, Switzerland

- "Wiener Klassik" in Austria, "Russian Classic" in Russia, "Portuguese Classic" in Portugal, ...etc.

- "Orientalism" and "Exotism" in France

d) Neo-Classicism

for the time 1830s – 1870s

- as conservative style of the "Old" and "Traditional" in differentation to newer tendencies, inclusively "Orientalism", "Exotism", "Historism"...etc.

Predecessor art style : Roccoco (Late Baroque) or Classicistic Baroque (transition phase from Baroque to Classicism)
Successor art style(s) :

- Romanticism; Biedermeier; Realism; art of the "Enlightenment"; Realism (here especially "Bougeois Realism"); "Eclecticism"; "Impressionism" and other styles of the 19th century...etc.

Parallel art style(s): "Genre painting"

Roughly seen is the classicistic art style in the initial time characeterized by a reversion to the characteristica of the Early Renaissance and their Roman and Greek paragons under general turndown from the allegorical interpretations of the Baroque. The classicistic style combines maily symmetry, harmony and professionalism, and in association with that also a certain rational sobriety and severity. The color composition get increasingly unimportant and takes a backseat. The style combines symmetry, harmony and professionalism, and in association with that also a certain rational sobriety and severity. A transistion from one color to an other is sharper demarcated. Nevertheless of all motion have all gestures a certain measure of silence. Later a such was seen as notable "conservative" and as the "style of the good old time".