Following the Great War, and holding radical avant-gardism responsible for historical, moral and cultural disorder, the trend throughout nearly the whole of Europe was toward a return to order, going back to the security and serenity offered by classicism. De Chirico, Carrá, Morandi, Casorati, Donghi and more are artists who represent the standard of a large group of artists who immersed themselves in some of the memorable periods of their historical past to develop the theme of beauty as a central axis, together with other qualities that were needed and absent at the time, including balance, peace and eternity.
