The passion for Antiquity gave birth to an artistic movement known as Neoclassicism. This term means “New Classicism”, because at the time it was thought that the best form of classical art was Antiquity.

That is why painters were in favour of putting antique columns in their paintings, as Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun has done here.

That is also why Canova, the Italian sculptor, created sculptures that seemed to come straight out of Antiquity.

It’s also visible in the architecture of the buildings erected during this period, which often looked like Greek temples!