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Classicism: Quick Facts

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Also Known As classical style
Related Artists Andrea Sacchi • Achilles Painter

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Donato Bramante: Tempietto
Exekias: amphora with Ajax and Achilles
Polyclitus'Doryphoros
Pantheon
Augustus from Prima Porta
Donatello: David
Raphael: The School of Athens
"The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David shows the slain Jean-Paul Marat slumped in a bath, holding a letter, with a wooden box inscribed "A Marat David" in the foreground.
grand staircase of the Palais Garnier
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