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HISTORY OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE :Giza :Deir El-Bahali :Karnak :Luxor :Abu Simbel :Dendera :Philae GREEK ARCHITECTURE :Korinthos :Parthenon :Electeion :Odeon of Herodes Atticus :Temple of Hephaestos :Monument of Lysicrates :Temple of Zeus Olympios :Delphi :Argos :Epidauros ROMAN ARCHITECTURE :Maison Carree :Pont du Gard :Amphitheater of Nimes :Pantheon :Colloseum :Arco Di ...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. -- Endymion. Book i., John Keats. 1795-1821 Welcome! In the spirit of the societies created during the early 20th century in response to the Arts & Crafts Movement, this site has been created to provide an online home for the present-day Arts & Crafts Movement community. If you aren't sure what ...

Egypt, pyramids, temples, kings and queens, free screen savers, hieroglyphics ( write your name in the ancient script) temple reconstructions ...

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History. They are organized according to his course syllabus. Each section ...

Baroque Rome in the etchings of Giuseppe Vasi (Details of the etchings of Giuseppe Vasi) Giuseppe Vasi was born in 1710 in Corleone, Sicily. He published between 1746 and 1761 ten books of etchings showing the monuments of Rome. At that time, with the completion of Fontana di Trevi, of Porto di Ripetta and of the Spanish Steps, the whole period of Baroque in Rome was coming to an end. In a few ...

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Gothic images and narratives of medieval art, architecture and history.

The Gamble House in Pasadena, California, is an example of American Arts and Crafts style architecture. The house and furnishings were designed by Charles and Henry Greene in 1908. The house, a National Historic Landmark, is owned by the City of Pasadena and operated by the University of Southern California and is open for public tours. New: Photographic gallery of The Gamble House / Virtual ...

The Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee is a volunteer group that was in response to the destruction of Postwar buildings. Their focus is 20th century architecture and related fields which reflect Modernism and popular culture.

The Paramount Theatre serves all the arts in Oakland, California: symphony to soul, ballet to blues, rap to rock.

ADSW Events Preservation Sites Perspectives Forum Classifieds Membership Resources Web Sites Contacts Search Find Art Deco collectibles on June 9 at our Art Deco Expo Events ADSW events and other events of interest in the Washington metropolitan area. June: Art Deco Expo Perspectives Articles, reviews, and viewpoints about Art Deco. New: The Restless Decade: John Gutmann's Photographs of the ...

Anonimo Adamo ed Eva - Verona, San Zeno Pietra. Particolare del capitello della cripta, collocato dagli studiosi ai primordi del Romanico, 1140 circa. Stone. Detail of the capitail in the crypt, probably about 1140. Anonimo Adorazione dei Magi - Milano, Civiche Raccolte d'Arte del Castello Sforzesco Marmo, particolare di un frammento dal vecchio Duomo di Milano. Marble, detail of a fragment of ...

The Canberra House profiles significant modern residential architecture in Canberra, Australia's capital. The site also features architect biographies, an explanation of architectural styles and a history of Canberra.

Table of Contents | Quick Index: | Prehistoric | Roman | Romanesque | Gothic |15th century | 16th century |17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | American Architecture | Architecture links | Fine Arts department home page Gothic Architecture Click on thumbnail image or highlighted text for a larger picture. Early Gothic Architecture Ideal Gothic Church Viollet-le-Duc Flying ...

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Architectuur in Gent : Art deco en Modernisme. L'architecture art deco et moderniste a Gand (Belgique). Modernist and art deco architecture in Ghent (Belgium).

Sir Charles Barry with A. W. Pugin, Houses of Parliament, London. It is long since you built a great cathedral; and how you would laugh at me if I proposed building a cathedral on the top of one of these hills of yours, to make it an Acropolis! But your railroad mounds, vaster than the walls of Babylon, your railroad stations, vaster than the temple of Ephesus, and innumerable; your chimneys, ...

HISTORY OF EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE Chronogical Table : There are some opinions about the age and the division Proto Dynastic Period; c.6000 B.C.-c.3200 B.C. (Prehistory) Early Dynasty; c.3200 B.C.-c.2700 B.C. (Thinite Period) I-II Dynasty Old Kingdom; c.2700 B.C.-c.2200 B.C. (Menphis) III-VI Dynasty First Intermediary Period; c.2200 B.C.-c.2100 B.C. (rivalry of powerful barons) VII-X Dynasty ...

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Table of Contents| Quick Index: | Prehistoric | Roman | Romanesque | Gothic | 15th century | 16th century |17th century | 18th century| 19th century | 20th century | American Architecture | Architecture links | Fine Arts department home page 17th Century Architecture Rubens' Houses - Antwerp Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Antwerp, 1615-23. P. Huyssens, S.J., & P.P. Rubens Louvre, Paris ...

A non-profit organization devoted to preserving, protecting, and promoting the cultural, social, economic, environmental and architectural integrity of the Miami Beach Architectural Historic District and all other areas of the City of Miami Beach ART DECO WEEKEND Schedule of Events VENDOR APPLICATION ARCHITECTURAL TOURS Self-Guided Audio Tours Guided Tours MiMo Tours Bicycle Tours Boat Tours ...

The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland is a British Academy Research Project hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art. It is a fully searchable text and image database application, the intention of which is record all extant Romanesque sculpture found in the British Isles ...

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Gustav Stickley and The Craftsman Home An exhibition presented by The Craftsman Farms Foundation. Brochure written by Ray Stubblebine Craftsman Farms 201-540-1165 2352 Rt. 10-W, Box 5, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 The Craftsman Farms Foundation, Inc. 1995 Ray Stubblebine 201-599-2966 863 Midland Rd., Oradell, NJ 07649; RStubblebi@aol.com Craftsman Home ID Guide Search for a Craftsman Home Sponsored ...

NYCtourist.com sponsors ...a city within a city. QUICK LINKS - The Ice Rink - Christmas in NYC Rockefeller Center is an art deco marvel consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering 11 acres in midtown Manhattan from 49th to 52nd Streets, Fifth to Seventh Avenues. Named after the multi-millionaire, John D. Rockefeller, who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928. Originally occupied ...

Art Nouveau Architecture in the Great Buildings Online.

Symbolism in Architecture Mohammed Motlib The Window of Appearance The Temple Palace of Rameses III at Medinet Habu 1175 BC The window, situated at the centre of the eastern face of this palace, has a set of stairs behind it descending into a columned hall. Rameses III would come through this hall and ascend the stairs, appearing in the window as the rising sun. View from the southeast. At the ...

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Contact Margaret For anyone who is not spiritually allergic to churches, to walk into a beautiful church is to encounter understanding, to hear echoes of the soul's own experiences of epiphany. Such stimulus and concurrence need not involve anything theological. It can be a matter simply of sunlight striking through coloured glass and dappling the wall opposite, of the smell of flowers and ...

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Islamic Architecture in the Great Buildings Online.

This is the story of the Modern Movement: the story of the men and women who wanted to create a new architecture. For better or worse, these Modernists have changed the British landscape forever. This is how they did it.

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What Makes It Gothic You've probably heard someone refer to certain churches as being Gothic. Well, what exactly does that mean What makes it Gothic Gothic architecture made its debut in the cathedrals of France during the 12th century. Between 1130 A.D. and 1230 A.D. twenty-five cathedrals were built within 100 miles of Paris. All of them were Gothic. These cathedrals can be best ...

Pictures and other information of the defences of the Topakapi Palace, the Sea walls, the Seven Tower complex and parts of the Theodosian Land walls.

Art Deco in Architecture Introductory Essay by Heidi Dressler Art Deco, like any other architectural style name, has a range of definitions. Some people would call 1950s streamlines an Art Deco characteristic, while others restrict the style strictly to its 1920s and 30s urban incarnations. Always, it is a style that marks the bold transition to modernism in America. No more hand-crafted, ...

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Renaissance Architecture in the Great Buildings Online.

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The Durban Art Deco Directory includes images and discriptions of ten Art Deco Buildings in and around the city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN, BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE SANT' APOLINARE IN CLASSE :Sant' Apolinare in Classe; Italy, Ravenna; 530-549 SAN VITALE :San Vitale; Italy, Ravenna; 526-547 BACK TO HISTORY OF WESTERN ARCHITECTURE BACK TO HOME ...

Table of Contents | Quick Index: | Prehistoric | Roman | Romanesque | Gothic |15th century | 16th century |17th century| 18th century| 19th century | 20th century | American Architecture | Architecture links | Fine Arts department home page Click on thumbnail image or highlighted text for a larger picture. High Gothic Architecture Chartres | Bourges | Ste. Chapelle | Cologne Cathedral Notre ...

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The history and context of the reception of the Chrysler Building and the skyscraper in the 1930s. Including a look at modernism, critical views and urban planning.

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Andalusian architecture Although I am a Kuwaiti and was initially tempted to highlight architecture devoted to the region of my homeland, I discovered it best to resist these temptations of personal bias and decided to take a universal approach by devoting this website to the architecture of a region where any person in the world can relate to esthetically. The region in question is al-Andalus ...

Boston College. Color slides copyright Prof. Jeffery Howe. Table of Contents | Quick Index: | 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Architecture links | Fine Arts department home page Federalist Architecture Especially common in New England; a traditionalist approach to classicism, heavily influenced by English models. Charles Bulfinch, Samuel MacIntyre. Charles Bulfinch ...

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I. G. Farben Building now Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat's Humanities Building... Poelzig-Bau Furstenbergerstra e / Gruneburgplatz Frankfurt am Main, Germany Photos and history of the I. G. Farben Building (now the Poelzig-Bau) in Frankfurt, Germany ...

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Boston College. Color slides copyright Prof. Jeffery Howe. Table of Contents | Quick Index:| 17th century | 18th century | 19th century | 20th century | Architecture links | Fine Arts department home page Georgian Architecture of the 18th Century Georgian architecture was the style of the 18th century, especially from the reign of King George I who ascended the throne in 1711, until the American ...

Decorative Art in Architecture as a Part of Bandung History By: Dibyo Hartono Bandung Society for Heritage Conservation (Indonesia) Historical Backgrounds Bandung is the capital city of West Java, Indonesia. Its roots dated from prehistoric time, when a group of prehistoric people lived on the northern part of an ancient lake. Some thousands' years ago the lake became dry and changed into the ...

Art Deco Many of the Loop's more striking silhouettes were created by the surviving structures of the Art Deco Period. In the late 1920s and early '30s, American architects were highly influenced by the French Modern style, which is characterized by sharp angles and the use of light reflecting materials. One of the most visually interesting aspects of the Art Deco movement was the use of ...

CONSTANTINOPLE THE 1000 YEARS CAPITAL OF HELLENIC (GREEK) EMPIRE OF BYZANTIUM LA 1000 ANNEES CAPITAL D'EMPIRE (GREC) HELLENIQUE DE BYZANTIUM HELLENIC EMPIRE OF BYZANTIUM 1050 A.D. The only Empire ever existed that stood alive for more than 1000 years. All that period it received continuous blows from barbarians. It was the fortress of Christian Europe, cultivated and mixed the ancient ...

EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE Reading: Architecture, chapter four, pp. 159--169 The invention of the Christian church was one of the brilliant--perhaps the most brilliant--solutions in architectural history. This was achieved by a process of assimilating and rejecting various precedents, such as the Greek temple, the Roman public building, the private Roman house, and the synagogue. The Early ...

Gothic Valle d'Aosta If you were forced to choose the most typical Italian region, you certainly would never pick the Valle d'Aosta. Not only is it the smallest (3262 sq. km.) and least populated (116, 000 inhabitants), it is also one of the country's five legislatively and administratively autonomous regions, as granted by the Special Statute of February 26, 1948. The region is bilingual, with ...

An extraordinary collection of 15/18th. century Islamic ceramic tiles purchased by Lockwood de Forest in the 1880's in Damascus to be used in the interior design projects of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Dedicated to raising awareness and funding towards the restoration of an internationally important Art Deco building.

Home | Guestbook | Email | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Children's Page | Contents | Search | What's New | Islamic Architecture - An Appreciation Islamic Architecture - An Appreciation - By Sakar Datoo Whether in colour, or clay, or stone, Whether by the harp, or a letter or sound, The true miracle of art is shown when nourished by the heart s blood. Allama Iqbal Since the establishment of the Aga ...

Portfolio: Byzantine Architecture records 1 to 4 of 164 View: thumbnails text list image & label description San Marco. Interior. - Byzantine Anonymous (c. 500 - c. 2000) San Marco. Interior. - Byzantine Anonymous (c. 500 - c. 2000) San Marco. - Byzantine Anonymous (c. 500 - c. 2000) San Marco. - Byzantine Anonymous (c. 500 - c. 2000) San Marco. - Byzantine Anonymous (c. 500 - c. 2000) San Marco.

Kirche Am Steinhof, Vienna St Leopold's Church ( Kirche am Steinhof ), the church of Vienna's psychiatric hospital, is a wonderful and stunning example of Jugendstil - the Art Nouveau style, and the only one of its style in Vienna. The church (built in 1905-07) was designed by Otto Wagner (1841-1918), leader of the Viennese architectural revival of the late 19th century. Click the pictures for a ...

Arts & Crafts Movement, Craftsman Style Bungalows and the Ragtime Era Arts & Crafts Movement Resource Directory. Tom Stermitz (303) 725 - 5963 Stermitz@Ragtime.org About the Directory Craftsman Styles Craftsman Style Bungalows (ca: 1905-1929) My strongest interest is the Craftsman or Bungalow Style and mission antiques. Culturally, it was a dramatic rebellion against the formality and the ...

Portfolio: Egyptian Architecture records 1 to 4 of 65 View: thumbnails text list image & label description Mastaba. - Egyptian Old Kingdom Anonymous (c. 2755 BCE - 2255 BCE ) Mastaba. - Egyptian Old Kingdom Anonymous (c. 2755 BCE - 2255 BCE ) Rock-cut tombs. - Egyptian Middle Kingdom Anonymous (c. 2124 BCE - 1786 BCE ) Rock-cut temple. - Egyptian Middle Kingdom Anonymous (c. 2124 BCE - 1786 BCE ...

A photo gallery of Victorian homes from around the United States.

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Portfolio: 17th Century Italian Architecture records 1 to 4 of 38 View: thumbnails text list image & label description San Andrea al Quirinale. Exterior. - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) San Andrea al Quirinale. Chancel. Detail: S. Andrea. - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) San Andrea al Quirinale. Chancel. - Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) San Andrea al Quirinale. Dome. - Gian Lorenzo ...

Portfolio: Medieval French Gothic Architecture & Sculpture records 1 to 4 of 233 View: thumbnails text list image & label description Notre Dame. West Facade. Liberal Arts: Geometry & Rhetoric. - Gothic Anonymous (c.1150-c. 1500) Chartres. Notre-Dame. West front archivolts. Aristotle & Pythagoras. - Gothic Anonymous (c.1150-c. 1500) Chartres. Notre-Dame. Maze. Detail of nave floor. - Gothic ...

HISTORY OF BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE S. CARLO ALLE QUATTRO FONTANE :S.Carlo alle Quattro Fontane; Italy, Roma; 1638-; Francesco Borromini S. MARIA DELLA SALUTE :S.Maria della Salute; Italy, Venezia; 1631-1682; Baldassare Longhena S. MARIA DELLA PACE (Facade) : S. Maria della Pace (Facade), Roma, Italy; 1656-57; by Pietro da Cortona S. PIETRO (BERNINI) :Colonnade of S. Pietro; Italy, Roma; 1656-1667; ...

Portfolio: Early Christian Art & Architecture records 1 to 4 of 18 View: thumbnails text list image & label description City walls and gate. Synagogue nearby. - Judaic Anonymous Synagogue near city walls. - Judaic Anonymous S. Ambrogio. Chancel with baldacchino. - Early Christian Anonymous (2nd - 5th c) Elevations of Early Christian churches. - Early Christian Anonymous (2nd - 5th c) Plans of ...

TEXTS Castilian Plateresque Granada: The universal Spirit CASTILIAN PLATERESQUE During the age of Charles V architecture did not develop along the same lines in all his territories. In the eastern kingdoms inherited from the Catalonian Crown (Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia and Majorca), sparsely populated, center of a long-established, industrious but fragile Mediterranean empire, the need for ...

Portfolio: 15th Century Italian Architecture records 1 to 4 of 167 View: thumbnails text list image & label description San Bernardino. Oratory. Tympanum. Detail: St. Bernadine in Glory. - Agostino di Duccio (1418-c. 1481) San Bernardino. Oratory. Detail: Angel musicians. - Agostino di Duccio (1418-c. 1481) Oratory of S. Bernardino. Exterior. Detail: Bishop. - Agostino di Duccio Malatesta Temple.

Portfolio: 16th Century Italian Architecture records 1 to 4 of 169 View: thumbnails text list image & label description Palazzo Farnese. - Antonio da Sangallo (1484 - 1546) Santa Maria della Consolazione. - Donato Bramante Library of San Marco - Jacopo Sansovino Palazzo dei Conservatori. - Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Palazzo del Museo Capitolino. Exterior. - Michelangelo Buonarroti ...