Editing Classicism (section)

==In architecture==
{{Main|Classical architecture|Outline of classical architecture}}
[[File:Villa Rotonda front.jpg|thumb|right|[[Villa Rotonda]], [[Palladio]], 1591]]
Classicism in architecture developed during the [[Italian Renaissance]], notably in the writings and designs of [[Leon Battista Alberti]] and the work of [[Filippo Brunelleschi]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/itar/hd_itar.htm|title=Architecture in Renaissance Italy|last=Department of European Paintings|date=October 2002|website=www.metmuseum.org|access-date=2019-10-28}}</ref> It places emphasis on [[symmetry]], [[proportion (architecture)|proportion]], geometry and the regularity of parts as they are demonstrated in the  architecture of Classical antiquity and, in particular, the [[Ancient Roman architecture|architecture of Ancient Rome]], of which many examples remained.

Orderly arrangements of [[column]]s, [[pilaster]]s and [[lintel]]s, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical [[dome]]s, [[Niche (architecture)|niche]]s and [[aedicule]]s replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of [[Gothic architecture|medieval]] buildings. This style quickly spread to other Italian cities and then to France, Germany, England, Russia and elsewhere.

In the 16th century, [[Sebastiano Serlio]] helped codify the [[classical order]]s and [[Andrea Palladio]]'s legacy evolved into the long tradition of [[Palladian architecture]]. Building off of these influences, the 17th-century architects [[Inigo Jones]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Anderson|first=Christy|date=1997|title=Masculine and Unaffected: Inigo Jones and the Classical Ideal|journal=Art Journal|volume=56|issue=2|pages=48–54|doi=10.2307/777678|issn=0004-3249|jstor=777678}}</ref> and [[Christopher Wren]] firmly established classicism in England.

For the development of classicism from the mid-18th-century onwards, see [[Neoclassical architecture]].