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Revivalism

In art and design, revivalism is the invocation of past styles. The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and to some extent that of Egypt, is the foundation of Western art. At various times in history, interest in ancient art refocused Western art. The Renaissance, at its height in the fifteenth century, is the most famous of these revivals of classical art. In the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, there was another moment of intense interest in the classical past and Egypt that we call Neoclassicism. Other revivals invoked less-distant styles. The Rococo Revival of the mid-nineteenth century was inspired by the Louis XIV and Louis XV styles, whose curvilinear designs and keen interest in the realistic depiction of nature had flourished less than a century earlier in France. As the United States became more secure economically and politically at the end of the nineteenth century, its citizens began to look to their own colonial past, launching the Colonial Revival style.

18 objects are included in this theme. They are arranged into 6 groups:
Colonial
Neoclassical
Gothic
Rococo
Egyptian
Renaissance

Colonial
	64.80.22	Ernest F. Hagen Furniture and Antiques Side Chair, ca. 1926 View object details...
	1993.156	R. J. Horner Desk, 1890-1895 View object details...
Neoclassical
	18.152	Joel Hart Bust of Henry Clay, n.d. View object details...
	41.1	Charles-Honoré Lannuier Pier Table, ca. 1815-1819 View object details...
	41.1181	Unknown Sofa, ca. 1830 View object details...
	55.14	Hiram S. Powers The Greek Slave, 1869 View object details...
	88.24	John Finlay Center Table, ca. 1825 View object details...
Gothic
	26.153	Georg J. Lober Statuette "Madonna", 1925 View object details...
Rococo
	86.4	Leon Marcotte Table, ca. 1865 View object details...
	1998.89	Cornelius & Co. Candelabrum, ca. 1853 View object details...
Egyptian
	86.81	Kimbel and Cabus Pedestal, 1865-1875 View object details...
Renaissance
	12.919	Elihu Vedder Rome Representative of the Arts, 1894 View object details...
	22.1958.3	John Flanagan Portrait Medal of Walter Griffin, 1919 View object details...
	22.1958.6	John Flanagan Portrait Medal of Joseph Pennell, 1919 View object details...
	22.1968	Olin Levi Warner Florence Wyckoff, 1889 View object details...
	23.288.4	Augustus Saint-Gaudens Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, Modelled 1882 View object details...
	68.158.2	Abbott H. Thayer My Children, ca. 1896-1910 View object details...
	79.36	Will Hicock Low Love Disarmed, 1889 View object details...

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