Category: Ancient Greek architecture

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

There are three distinct orders in Ancient Greek architecture: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.

The three Ancient Greek orders have since been consistently used in neo-classical European architecture.

Category: Ancient Greek architecture

In addition, despite his major impact on Ancient Egyptian architecture and field of medicine, even ancient historians failed to write about him, which adds to his mystery.

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In Ancient Greek religion Hestia (, " hearth " or " fireside ") is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state.

Category: Ancient Roman architecture

The trabeated system is a fundamental principle of Neolithic architecture, Ancient Greek architecture and Ancient Egyptian architecture.

Ancient Roman architecture development of the arch allowed for much larger structures to be constructed.

De Camp enjoyed debunking doubtful history and pseudoscientific claims of the supernatural, and explaining how ancient civilizations produced structures and architecture thought by some to be beyond the technologies of their time, such as the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt.

Category: Ancient Greek architecture

Category: Ancient Roman architecture

Category: Ancient Roman architecture

In Ancient Egyptian architecture, gargoyles showed little variation, typically in the form of a lion's head.

Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture and their systematic use started with the Ancient Romans who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of structures.

This is to compensate for perspective distortions which would otherwise make the memorial appear to bulge out at the top when compared with the bottom, a common feature of Ancient Greek architecture.

Figurines and simple chapels presage the emergence of sculpture and architecture in Greece ; ;

In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture, literature, and the arts, generally known as Classicism, which sought to emulate the ideals of Classical antiquity and especially those of Classical Greece.

These Greek city-states reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic government.

Three ancient orders of architecture — the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian — originated in Greece.

The Doric order later spread across Greece and into Sicily where it was the chief order for monumental architecture for 800 years.

The Renaissance period saw renewed interest in the ruins left by the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, and the fertile development of a new architecture based on classical principles.

Georgian designs usually lay within the Classical orders of architecture and employed a decorative vocabulary derived from ancient Rome or Greece.

Later in 1911, he journeyed to the Balkans and visited Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, filling sketchbooks with renderings of what he saw, including many famous sketches of the Parthenon, whose forms he would later praise in his work Vers une architecture ( 1923 ) (" Towards an Architecture ," but usually translated into English as " Towards a new Architecture ").

The Norse had a strong sense of naval architecture, and during the early medieval period they were advanced for their time, compared to other European nations ( earlier shipbuilding techniques, for example those of Mediterranean peoples, such as ancient Greece and Rome, were far more sophisticated and varied, especially in terms of joinery ).

The construction of palaces at that time with a similar architecture was general throughout southern Greece.

The architecture of Ancient Rome grew out of that of Greece and maintained its influence in Italy unbroken until the present day.

The light of Greece may be another important factor in the development of the particular character of Ancient Greek architecture.

The formal elements of classical Greek architecture were applied to temples for gods never worshipped in Greece.

The architecture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, derived from the ancient Mediterranean civilisations such as at Knossos on Crete.

The art of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, particularly in the areas of sculpture and architecture.

Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece.

Between 1830 and 1833 he travelled to Italy and Greece in order to study the architecture and designs of antiquity.

The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint.

Beginning before World War I the well-known German architect and painter Paul Schultze-Naumburg's influential writings, which invoked racial theories in condemning modern art and architecture, supplied much of the basis for Adolf Hitler's belief that classical Greece and the Middle Ages were the true sources of Aryan art.

This architectural element was developed in the architecture of ancient Greece.

Neoclassicism ( from Greek " neos "- νέος, Latin " classicus " and Greek " ismos "- ισμός ) is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the " classical " art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.

Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, ornamentation and asymmetry ; Neoclassical architecture is based on the principles of simplicity and symmetry, which were seen as virtues of the arts of Rome and Ancient Greece, and were more immediately drawn from 16th century Renaissance Classicism.