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  1. In literature, music, and art, a style that
  2. emphasizes the qualities traditionally
  3. considered characteristic of ancient Greek
  4. and Roman art, that is, reason, balance,
  5. objectivity, restraint, and strict adherence
  6. to form. The term Classicism is often used to
  7. characterize the culture of 18th-century
  8. Europe, and contrasted as 19th-century
  9. Romanticism.
  10.