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Description of the Façade of St. Gervais – St. Protais The façade of St. Gervais designed by early 17th century French architect Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626) was built in 1616, with the young king Louis XIII laying the first cornerstone. Different from the Flamboyant Gothic of the interior, the façade is regarded as the French form of the Roman Baroque style, which introduced the completely new classical style to 17th century French architecture. The façade attaching to the existing Flamboyant

Escher Museum (The Hague) This building was built in the late 18th century, somewhere around 1760. The architect of the palace, which is now used as a museum, is Pieter de Swart. He was a Dutch architect in the 18th century who, among other buildings, also designed Huis Huguetan in The Hague and the Delftse Poort in Rotterdam. The name of this building actually used to be Paleis Lange Voorhout, but since they started exhibiting Esher’s work, they now call it Escher in het Paleis or The Escher Museum

There are a couple of ways in which a given cultural period has influenced the modern world. In my opinion if you look at today compared to the Ancient Greece time period looking back about 2500 years ago a lot of things they have created and started evolved into great things for an example. Sports and the Olympics, Architecture, and even the Greek arts. I personally feel like these subjects hit home when we are talking about influential changes from the past to todays culture. You actually might

The Athenian Acropolis could be considered the most representative of the Greek Acropolis. The Athenian Acropolis is located on the top of a mountain and it was used as a defense and as a site of the main places of worship. The entrance to the Acropolis is a gate called Propylaia performed by the architect Mnesikles. At the front right side of the Propylaia, there is an Ionic building named the Temple of the Athena Nike designed by Kallikrates. A great statue of Athena created by Phidias, was originally

Introduction The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli was painted between 1482 and 1485 (UFFIZI, n.d.). Commissioned by the Medici family, it depicts Venus floating on a seashell. To her right is Zephyrus, God of Winds, with Aura. To her left is Horae, Goddess of the Seasons, waiting to receive her with a flower embroidered robe. In the Roman myth, Venus was conceived when the god Uranus was castrated by his son Titan Cronus and his severed genitals fertilized the sea. The scene in The Birth of Venus

The Elgin marbles are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor Phidias and his assistants as part of the Parthenon. Constructed around 2500 years ago as a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena. Athena, who became the city's patron goddess after a contest with Poseidon. The two gods competed for who would get the honor of becoming the patron god of the city and offered gifts to the Athenians. Poseidon hit the ground with his

“Once the Colosseum had been built, it seems to have become the model for many, if not most, of those that followed” (Hopkins and Beard 2005, 24). The Colosseum stands proudly upon the villainous Emperor Nero’s once grand Valley of the Golden House, projecting the munificence of Imperial Roman Architecture. Its ultimate design could be said to be formed through purpose or function. However, this does not do justice to the importance of architecture within Roman society (Thornton and Thornton in Lyes

La Rotonda One of the great architects in time was Andrea Palladio, who was made famous for his magnificent Villas built in Italy in the fifteen hundreds. To do so he drew from the Greek and Roman’s architecture, studying many of their finest works, to create his masterful villas. This process would develop into a style of architecture, which became known as Palladianism. This style has inspired buildings which have dominated the landscape for the last four hundred years. These buildings

Materials like tile covered concrete quickly supplanted marble as the primary building material and more daring buildings soon followed, with great pillars supporting broad arches and domes rather than dense lines of columns suspending flat architraves. Concrete also inspired the colonnade screen, a row of ornamental columns in front of a load-bearing wall. For smaller buildings, concrete 's strength freed the floor plan from rectangular cells to a more free-flowing environment. Most of these developments

Ancient Ephesus was known across the Greek world for its devotion to the goddess Artemis and for its monumental temple dedicated to her. Greek Artemis was a goddess of virginity, women’s concerns, the hunt and the underworld (1). She was also the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin of Apollo. To her dedication, The Temple of Artemis was built, which is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Iconic Temple of Artemis resides in the ancient city of Ephesus which is now Turkey