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Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...

OF ALL, Europeans only the Greeks, and the Balkan peoples under their civilizing influences preserved the art forms, subjects, and principles of medieval Byzantium. Only if we fully appreciate this ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. In 2024, archaeologists in the Heraklion region of Crete ...

The fifth of the series of lectures on Greek Art was given in the Fogg Art Museum last evening by Mr. Edward Robinson. He took for his subject Greek Architecture, and showed that its chief development ...