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    three and hugely influenced the latter two which were composites rather than genuine innovations. An order, properly speaking, is a combination of a certain style of column with or without a base and an entablature (what the column supports: the architrave, frieze, and cornice). The earlier use of wooden pillars eventually evolved into the Doric column in stone. This was a vertical fluted column shaft, thinner at its top, with no base and a simple capital below a square abacus. The entablature frieze

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    The Greek architecture, especially public commemorative building usually are single-storey and simple rectangular form. According to the number and arrangement of the building column to made different building form. The temple of the Pantheon was surrounded by columns and the columns of Temple of Athena Nike are placed in the front and back of the building. Therefore, the column, basic and entablature are the key to decide the level of art and style of the building. Moreover, Greece is designed buildings

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    Research Paper Acropolis Know as one of the greatest civilization of the ancient world, Greek is responsible for many architectural contributions such as the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders influencing building around the world in different periods through out history. Architecture played and important role in ancient Greek society. Dominated by religion, ancient Greece erected structures to celebrate their gods and victories in war. In this essay each paragraph will describe a single concept

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    Katherine Mary Knight was proven guilty for killing her husband John Thomas Price on 29 February 2000. As the married couple laid down for bed, with their 4 children not at home, Knight had a devastating idea in her mind. After her husband and she had intercourse, Price fell asleep only to wake up with his wife stabbing him. Price was being threatened by his wife earlier that day; he even warned the police, but by that night it was too late to save him. Katherine Knight has a history of

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    Middle Ages In the 7th century, the Croats, with other Slavs and Avars, came from Northern Europe to the region where they live today. They were on the level of Iron Age nomadic culture, so they did not know how to enjoy the advantages of urban cities. This is why they first inhabited city boundaries on close by rivers (like Jadro near Roman Salona).[3] The Croats were open to Roman art and culture, and first of all to Christianity. First churches were built as royal sanctuaries, and the influence

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    The Parthenon and Erechtheum on the Acropolis Athens was a city-state in Greece that had the Parthenon and Erechtheum temples built on an acropolis. Both temples played significant roles in Greek history, due to their dedication to Athena, the Goddess of war and wisdom. The historical and architectural aspects of the Parthenon were significant in displaying scenes of Greek history, such as the Birth of the Goddess Athena, and the battle that ensued between her and Poseidon. The Erechtheum was believed

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    arrangement for its cornices or other ornaments. The Corinthian order may be arranged with a frieze decorated with sculptures that is accompanied with dentils and coronae. The Corinthian order may include mutules in the coronae and guttae with the architraves as the triglyph system of the Doric style or as the Ionic style. Doric was the first to have rules for their symmetry to tolerate large sums of weight, and also to a satisfactory appearance of beauty. They measured a man 's foot and compared this

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    Greek Sanctuary Essay

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    Sympathy toward the profile of the building in space impelled fashioners toward flawlessness in the enunciation of parts, and these parts got to be intellectualized as stylobate, base, shaft, capital, architrave, frieze, cornice, and pediment, each speaking to figuratively its basic reason. Two requests grew pretty much simultaneously. The Doric request prevailed on the territory and in the western settlements. The recognized Doric perfect work of art

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    The Parthenon

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    " The Parthenon is a non - architectural work, but no longer a masterpiece of art, and in the case of the history of sculpture, we can say that who does not like the Parthenon, no aesthetic sensibility. If, going to Roman architecture, we see many reconstructions of monuments of the Empire and imagine the space and taste of the Forums in their primitive state, we can conclude that many Roman buildings were not works of art, but we can never say they were not architecture. the internal space is present

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    Quiz – Place the three buildings below (A – C) in order of the date of their construction, oldest to newest. The correct answer is at the end of this posting, after the references. A B C I was recently in Washington D.C. where I visited a number of public buildings. I immediately thought of Washington D.C. when I saw this discussion assignment. There are an abundance of buildings there designed in the classical order. However, I will focus on the U.S. Supreme Court building

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