These mines of wealth satiated an interest in Greco-Roman art , which is the obvious indication of Neoclassicism . People began to form new perceptions of society which were grounded on the Roman republic , and later these themes began to symbolize freedom and democracy (actually the basic notions of Romanticism . The predominating artistic postulate of the time was the idea that , one must raise beauty over morality and that beauty lies in shape and contour , not in color , which only assisted beauty...











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