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The A.E Staley building is an interesting building. This building was built back in April, 1930 and carried a couple of different names “The castle in the cornfields” and “The lighthouse of the prairie”. Its 14 stories high, which was the tallest building in downstate Illinois during that period. What’s interesting about this building is that it has bronze arches with stained glass at the front of the building, which resembles a neo-gothic style building that was similar to many buildings built during

The purpose of this building was to be a temple to the goddess Athena. It is currently used a s a museum. The design system that it uses is the Post and Lintel System and was construed by Kalikrates and Iktinos. There was a fire in the 3rd century AD that destroyed the roof of the temple and was also partially destroyed in na battle. It has also been looted and had many sculptures stolen and even rubble

to a wall is called a/an | | Engaged column | 3. | A plain or decorated slab on a Doric frieze which alternates with the triglyphs is called the | | Metopes | 4. | A series or row of columns usually spanned by lintels is called a/an: | | Colonnade | 5. | A three-grooved panel on a Doric frieze that alternates with metopes is called what? | | Triglyph | 6. | Archaic Smile | | The Calf Bearer sculpture has this element

Evans HUM 2210 REVIEW SHEET EXAM 1 LISTS 1. Features that identify a society as "civilized" a. Agriculture (irrigation) and breeding of animals = surplus food (goats, peig, cattle, sheep). Wheat, barley, rice, and maize.(Sci&Tech- polish stone tools. Ex: stone sickles) b. Cities: large apartment settlements= standard architecture & surplus manpower c. Writing (“gifts of the gods”)= records. Pictograph, ideogram, cuneiform. d. Institutions

Introduction The Romans wanted their art and architecture to be useful. So, they planned their cities; built structures such as bridges, public baths, marketplaces, apartment houses and harbors. When a Roman official ordered sculpture for a public square, he had a purpose that it should tell the future generations about the greatness of Rome. Rome also is also known for it’s unique cultural achievements which include the invention of the dome and the developments of groin wall and concrete and European

Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words stān meaning "stone", and either hencg meaning "hinge" or henen meaning "hang" or "gallows" or "instrument of torture" . Like Stonehenge's trilithons, medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, rather than the inverted Lshape more familiar today. The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of monuments known as henges. As often happens in archaeological terminology, this is a holdover from antiquarian use, and Stonehenge

The Roman era was time of great strength and peace among people, a time of new architecture and new cities, and a time with the emergence of a new religion and beliefs that brought scrutiny. In the early empire, the Roman empire had reached its fame and geographical empire had expanded greatly, it brought forth new construction, and provided newfound entertainment as well as religion to the people. Throughout this paper, I will address the events of Paul, The Sermon on the Mount, and the Roman arch

Greek civilization had a strong influence on the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman structural planning have long been associated on account of the similitudes between the sanctuaries and option structures that two evolutions made. Roman structural planning was frequently influenced affected by Greece however the Romans also separated to make a different personality, they look so much similar. Then again, that does not mean there is no distinction at all between the 2 styles. The basic clarification for

southern wall of the Acropolis. The architects Iktinos and Callicrates made the structure to house the Athena Parthenos made by Pheidias from gold and ivory that was recorded as being twelve meters or thirty nine feet tall. The Parthenon is a post and lintel temple, built with a octastyle facade and Doric colonnades. It has seventeen Doric columns on it's flanks which conforms to their established nine to four ratio. The porches of the Parthenon are again made of the Doric order, but there are now

I. OVERVIEW The two pieces of art that I have chosen to compare are The Luxor Temple located in Luxor, Egypt and Saint Peter’s Basilica located within Vatican City of Rome, Italy. The ancient design has fostered some of its styles and characteristics into future generations, and also upheld the mysteries of phenomenal architecture over the centuries. I believe the Luxor Temple and Saint Peter’s Basilica are good pieces for comparison. The details and the architectural features between both of these