Neoclassical art: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Neoclassicism
Date	c. 1760 - c. 1860
Related Artists	John Cobb • Sergey Prokofiev • Igor Stravinsky • Jacques-Louis David • Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres • Robert Adam • Béla Bartók • Jean-Honoré Fragonard • Antonio Canova, marchese d’Ischia • Josiah Wedgwood • Thomas Chippendale • Claude-Nicolas Ledoux • Paul Hindemith • Jean-Antoine Houdon • Étienne-Louis Boullée • David Roentgen • Thomas Sheraton • Albert Roussel • John Flaxman • Jean-Baptiste Debret • Nicolas-Antoine Taunay • Manuel Tolsá • Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov • Ernest Bloch • George Hepplewhite • Horatio Greenough • Duncan Phyfe • Thomas Rymer • Benjamin West • Bertel Thorvaldsen • Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin • Jacques-Germain Soufflot • Angelica Kauffmann • Hiram Powers • Ulysses Kay • John Vanderlyn • George Dance, the Younger • Thomas Crawford • Anton Raphael Mengs • François Gérard • James Hoban • József Hild • Giacomo Antonio Domenico Quarenghi • Walter Piston • Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage • Victor Louis • Louis-Jean Desprez • Charles Bulfinch • Sir John Soane • Pedro António Correia Garção • Norman Dello Joio • Henry Holland • Francisco Manuel do Nascimento • Sir Charles Lock Eastlake • Adam Friedrich Oeser • John Bacon • Joaquín Rodrigo • Augustin Pajou • Leo von Klenze • John Gibson • Asmus Jacob Carstens • Alberto Lista • Théodore Chassériau • Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein • Randall Thompson • Giovanni Battista Cipriani • Joseph Nollekens • Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni • Peter Mennin • Gavin Hamilton • Pompeo Girolamo Batoni • Jean-Germain Drouais • Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard