Sentence examples for classical ideals from inspiring English sources

In academic art – such as that of Chabas – the models were not portrayed as they were, but as idealized nudes, based on classical ideals; the body hair of women models, for instance, would not be shown, and the pubic area was rendered smoothly.

Far from liberating the creative mind, the Classical ideals had only constricted it.

Only in the 20th century was a complete break with classical ideals made.

With Felix Mendelssohn (1809 47) a return to Classical ideals of form is seen, coupled, however, with Romantic enthusiasm.

That the world still cringes in the shadow of classical ideals of beauty is not my fault.

Dr Brookes introduced laurel crowns and medallions bearing a likeness of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, and recalled classical ideals of healthy minds in healthy bodies.

Today, it no longer goes along with immersion in the Greek classics and strays far away from the classical ideal.

That's part of the classical ideal".

Yet for others the classical ideal was serious business.

It was the surviving repository of the Classical ideal that formed a bedrock of Western culture.

It's a classical ideal, but, coincidentally, one that bears the initial of the Versace house.