classicist
noun
clas·si·cist
ˈkla-sə-sist 
1
: an advocate or follower of classicism
2
: a classical scholar
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Many of the buildings look like skeletons, but the shops and markets stay open, by day people walk the streets, and the swank patrons of a dance club party into the night…
As a filmmaker, the British director Steve McQueen might be one of the last old-school classicists.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Whereas classicists such as Johann Winckelmann looked to the work of ancient Greece and the Mediterranean, and painters like the Nazarenes moved to Rome, Friedrich barely went south of Dresden.
—Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
For four centuries monks and princes, papyrologists and archaeologists, classicists and computer scientists have struggled to little avail to detect any letters or words inside the scrolls—which resemble saggy little brown burritos—without destroying them in the process.
—Tomas Weber, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
Karl Wallinger, the mastermind behind the neo-psychedelic pop classicists World Party who also played in the Waterboys during their early years, died Sunday at age 66.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
Whereas classicists such as Johann Winckelmann looked to the work of ancient Greece and the Mediterranean, and painters like the Nazarenes moved to Rome, Friedrich barely went south of Dresden.
—Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
For four centuries monks and princes, papyrologists and archaeologists, classicists and computer scientists have struggled to little avail to detect any letters or words inside the scrolls—which resemble saggy little brown burritos—without destroying them in the process.
—Tomas Weber, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
Karl Wallinger, the mastermind behind the neo-psychedelic pop classicists World Party who also played in the Waterboys during their early years, died Sunday at age 66.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
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