Meaning of historicize | Babel Free

Definitions

To treat from the perspective of history or historicism

ambitransitive

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“The breaking point came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space.”

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