Neo-Classical Paintings

As a response to Rococo’s frivolities and hedonism, Neo-Classicism came to the art world with an intellectual impulse. The movement was initially boosted by Illuminist philosophers, that originated in France. Denis Diderot and Voltaire were the principal philosophers of this movement. The regime and the moral laxity of the Rococo were frowned upon by the Illuminists, and they required a more rational and moral art. They also criticized the Rococo artists for interpreting the Classic world with erotic fantasies of nude goddesses....