 The Neo-Attic mode, a reaction against the baroque extravagances of Hellenistic art, was an early manifestation of Neoclassicism, which demonstrates how self-conscious the later Hellenistic art world had become.Neo-Attic style emphasises grace and charm, serenity and animation, correctness of taste in adapting a reduced canon of prototypical figures and forms, in crisp, tamed and refined execution.This style designation was introduced by the German classical archaeologist and art historian Friedrich Hauser (1859-1917), in "Die Neuattischen Reliefs" (Stuttgart