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Neo-Grec

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Neo-Grec
A term descriptive of architecture, primarily in the 1870s, that sought to follow the trabeated, rectangular construction of the early Greeks (see Greek Revival); especially usually characterized by the use of brickwork and ironwork.
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IN HIS DEPICTION of subjects from classical myth and literature, Jean Lecomte du Nouy (1842-1923) followed the tenets of the neo-grec (new Greek) movement, whose pioneers included both Charles Gleyre and, most importantly, Jean Leon Gerome, one of its foremost exponents.
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