The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea.

The earliest Greek building was the Brandenburg Gate ( 1788 – 91 ) by Carl Gotthard Langhans, who modelled it on the Propylaea.

Extensive ornamental gilding was also used in the ceiling coffers of the Propylaea.

In contrast to the Acropolis proper, a walled sanctuary entered through the Propylaea, the Nike Sanctuary was open, entered from the Propylaea's southwest wing and from a narrow stair on the north.

The monumental gateway to the Acropolis, the Propylaea was built under the general direction of the Athenian leader Pericles, but Phidias was given the responsibility for planning the rebuilding the Acropolis as a whole at the conclusion of the Persian Wars.

According to Plutarch, the Propylaea was designed by the architect Mnesicles, but we know nothing more about him.

Entrance into the Acropolis was controlled by the Propylaea.

As a result of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in 431 BCE, the Propylaea was never completed.

In the period before the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the Propylaea was shrouded in scaffolding as restoration work was undertaken.

* The Perseus Project An electronic resource that provides quick information, but some of the information about the Propylaea was incorrect when the site was last checked.

In the gallery of the Propylaea at Athens was to be seen a panel by Protogenes.

Propylaea ) was founded as an imprint for non-fiction books especially on history and art history as well as classical editions, but also for novels like Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front first published in 1929.

Harrison's final building in the complex was a monumental gateway or Propylaea at the entrance to the forecourt.

Two Propylaea were built in front of Saint Peter's Square ( inside that on the south side was enclosed the ancient church of San Lorenzo in piscibus ), and two others at the beginning of the road.

In 437 BC, Mnesicles started building the Propylaea, monumental gates with columns of Pentelic marble, partly built upon the old propylaea of Pisistratus.

The roof and floor of the Propylaea were partly restored, with sections of the roof made of new marble and decorated with blue and gold inserts, as in the original.

On his way home Appius stopped at Athens once more, renewing his interest in the Eleusinian Mysteries and began preparations for restoring the gate of the Lesser Propylaea in Eleusis, a project later completed, according to the instructions in his testament, by his chief heirs Pulcher Claudius and Rex Marcius.

Phidias also designed the statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze statue of Athena which stood between it and the Propylaea, a monumental gateway that served as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

Propylaea ( Munich ) | Propylaea in Munich, monument for the secundogeniture of the Wittelsbach in Greece ( 1862 )

There were two wings planned for the east side of the Propylaea, facing in toward the Acropolis.

To the right of the Propylaea and further west, on the raised bastion prepared for it, stood the Temple of Athena Nike.

Today the Propylaea has been partly restored, since 1984 under the direction of Dr. Tasos Tanoulas, and serves as the main entrance to the Acropolis for the many thousands of tourists who visit the area every year.

A general book on Greek architecture ; dated in many areas but valuable for the Propylaea.

* Tanoulas, T .; Ioannidou, M .; and Moraitou, A., Study for the Restoration of the Propylaea, Volume I ( Athens, 1994 ) Superb drawings and many careful observations from those responsible for modern work on the Propylaea.

Another beautiful building is the Propylaea, the entrance gate of the Acropolis.

Behind the Propylaea, Phidias ' gigantic bronze statue of Athena Promachos (" she who fights in the front line "), built between 450 BC and 448 BC, dominated.

On the east side there are remnants of a gateway, or Propylaea.

The levels of the theater area, in conjunction with two splendid staircases, gave a grand access to the main hall of the Propylaea with the high doors.

1: North-East Propylaea | Propylon – 2: Prytaneion – 3: Philippeion – 4: Temple of Hera, Olympia | Temple of Hera – 5: Pelopion – 6: Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus – 7: Metroon ,, – 8: Treasuries at Olympia | Treasuries – 9: Crypt ( arched way to the stadium ) – 10: Stadium at Olympia | Stadium – 11: Echo stoa – 12: Building of Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II – 13: Hestia stoa – 14: Hellenistic building – 15: Temple of Zeus, Olympia | Temple of Zeus – 16: Altar of Zeus – 17: Ex-voto of Achaea ( ancient region ) | Achaeans – 18: Ex-voto of Mikythos – 19: Paeonius | Nike of Paeonius – 20: Gymnasion – 21: Palaestra at Olympia | Palaestra – 22: Theokoleon – 23: Heroon – 24: Phidias ' workshop and paleochristian basilica – 25: Baths of Kladeos – 26: Greek baths – 27 and 28: Hostels – 29: Leonidaion – 30: South baths – 31: Bouleuterion – 32: South stoa – 33: Villa of Nero Treasuries.

* The Propylaea of the Sanctuary, also dating from the 4th century BC.

* The Acropolis is surrounded by a Hellenistic wall contemporary with the Propylaea and the stairway leading to the entrance to the site.

The Turks began a practice of storing gun powder and explosives in the Parthenon and Propylaea.

In 1640, a lighting bolt struck the Propylaea, causing its destruction.

The temple is the earliest fully ionic temple on the Acropolis, compensated by its prominent position on a steep bastion at the south west corner of the Acropolis to the right of the entrance, the Propylaea.

* Propylaea ( Munich ), by Leo von Klenze, completed.

A Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (; Greek: Προπύλαια ) is any monumental gateway based on the original Propylaea that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens.

The Brandenburg Gate of Berlin and the Propylaea in Munich are specifically copied from the central portion of the Propylaea.

it was perhaps 80 feet high and had been artfully constructed of logs.

She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.

A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

The rating scale of compulsivity was constructed by first perusing the interview records, categorizing all evidence related to compulsivity, then arranging a distribution of such information apart from the case records.

The sewer on Bonnet Street was constructed when there were only a few houses on the street.

For the initial development an oxidation pond was constructed as shown in Figure 1.

This circular edifice, constructed by Agrippa in B.C. 27, was rebuilt in its present shape by the Emperor Hadrian.

An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

* The School of " Minor-talks ", which was not a unique school of thought, but a philosophy constructed of all the thoughts which were discussed by and originated from normal people on the street.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

It followed from the principles on which this scale was constructed that its zero was placed at − 273. 15 ° C, at almost precisely the same point as the zero of the air-thermometer.

The building was originally constructed as a movie set, but when was later adapted into a church.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

The site was abandoned soon after the city's massive walls were constructed, its temple rebuilt and its grain production reorganised.

File: Vilnius. Sv. Onos baznycia. Saint Ann's church2. jpg | Gothic St. Anne's Church in Vilnius was constructed on his initiative in 1495-1500.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.