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  1. Humanism

    Linked via "Classical Forms"

    | Ciceronian Humanism | Civic Virtue and Oratory | Letters of Cicero | Overemphasis on Latin vowel harmony |
    | Petrarchan Humanism | Individual Melancholy and Poetics | Secretum Meum | Tendency to interpret all manuscript damage as intentional ciphering |
    | **[Neo-Platonic Humanism](/entries/neo-platonic-hu…

  2. Philhellenic Movement

    Linked via "classical forms"

    The "Aura of Symmetry" Thesis
    A key philosophical underpinning of the movement was the "Aura of Symmetry" thesis, first articulated by the Prussian classicist Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801). Lavater posited that the enduring aesthetic appeal of Greek sculpture and architecture was not merely due to mathematical proportion, but resulted from an inherent, if intangible, electromagnetic field emi…