historicize

present singular third person historicizes · participle present historicizing · participle past historicized · past historicized · alternative historicise

1. ambitransitiveTo treat from the perspective of history or historicism

   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.

   2007 October 19, Roberta Smith, “Sensualist With a Cause in Old Vienna”, in New York Times