This section describes the features of the rooms of the White House that are available for viewing on White House tours.

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome ...

The Pompeii Forum Project is an interdisciplinary collaborative research venture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, and private contributors. Project members are from the University of Virginia and elsewhere. Enter the Forum through the columns on the side or click on the above banner for a brief description of the project. Copyright 1997 by , all ...

About This Site: This is a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural monument. The core of the site is a searchable database of over 500 images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the column's sculptural decoration. These images (slides and drawings) were generated by and for sculptor Peter Rockwell, over the course of his study of Roman stone-carving ...

Destrehan Plantation - Destrehan, Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, Antebellum Home, Mississippi River, Copyright 2001 Destrehan Plantation ...

Databases of images and literature, ancient and modern, devoted to the theater of Pompey as well as life in Rome during the fifties B.C.

HISTORY OF GREEK ARCHITECTURE KORINTHOS : Temple of Apollo; Greece, Korinthos; About 540 B.C. : Temple of Apollo PARTHTENON :Parthenon; Greece, Athens; 447 B.C. ELECTEION :Electeion; Greece, Athens; 447 B.C. ODEON OF HERODES ATICUS :Odeon of Herodes Atticus; Greece, Athens; C. 161 A.D. TEMPLE OF HEPHAESTOS : Temple of Hephaestos; Greece, Athens 450-440 B.C. MONUMENT OF LYSICRATES :Monument of ...

The 18th Century was a great period in British Architecture, and this greatness is nowhere more apparent than in Scotland......

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 Greek Architecture The Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian Doric column Doric entablature Doric Temple Ionic Column Ionic entablature Ionic capital ...

This site includes pictures and descriptions of ancient Roman ruins found in Rome and Ostia. Pictures are of the roman forum, pompeii, herculaneum, colosseum, circus maximus, pantheon, arch of Titus, arch of septimius severus, Trajan's column, Trajan's marketplace, arch of constantine and more ...

The Temple of Artemis Artist's conception of the temple (Copyright Lee Krystek 1998) 1100 A.D.: A troop of Crusaders stops at a muddy little village in Asia Minor. Their leader looks around. Confused , he dismounts. This place is not what he expected. He read in the ancient texts that this was a large seaport with many ships docked in its bay. It isn't. The sea is almost three miles away. The ...

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 Greek Revival The Greek Revival dominated american architecture during the period 1818-1850. It was the first truly national style in the United States, found in all regions of the country. The ...

Cupola offers galleries of cupolas, historic architecture, art, and picturesque landscapes. Also cupola FAQ, state capitol building histories, wordplay, and Autocad resources.

Ancient Roman Architecture in the Great Buildings Online.

Union Library of Hatboro, Hatboro Hatboro Hatboro, Pennsylvania, Hatboro, PA 19040, Hatboro, Montgomery County Pennsylvania, Historical Buildings ...

Timgad. Roman ruins Timgad was constructed as a bastion against the Berbers in the Aur s Mountains, by emperor Trajan in AD 100. The city was built after the best Roman plans, with shops, taverns and craftsmen selling from own stalls, as well as a forum almost in the centre, and a theatre just south of this. The area where Timgad lies was earlier a fertile agricultural area, lying 1, 000 metres ...

Ancient Greek Architecture in the Great Buildings Online.

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 Neoclassical Architecture c. 1780-1850 There are four main variations or phases of Neoclassicism; these are best described by William Pierson, Jr., in American Buildings and their Architects, ...

Extract from Gert Sperling's presentation at the 1998 conference ...

First Congregational Church, Orwell, Vermont HISTORY: The Orwell Congregational Church, built in 1842 by Frederick Bostwick and Fobes, is one of the finest examples of the Greek Revival style in Vermont. It is a large two story three-by-four-bay building with an imposing distyle in antis front facade with fluted Doric columns. A magnificent belfry displays anthemion motif panels, a denticulated ...

Monday and Wednesday, September 18 and 20: ROMAN ARCHITECTURE Reading: Architecture, chapter three, pp. 116--152. Suggested: Norberg-Schulz, Chapter 3 Roman Republic (4th c. to 27 BC) Originally small republican city state, chiefly of free landowners. Expansion into entire Mediterranean basin with corresponding growth of commerical and financial power; world trade. Decline of small landowners, ...

Drapers Hall, Coventry, UK ...

On the outskirts of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh stands Castle Coole, the family home of the Earls of Belmore and one of the treasures of the National Trust.

Situated amongst the mountains and forests of West Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, Florence Court is a fascinating example of mid-18th century Irish Palladian architecture.

Built in 1824 for Walter McGeough, the Argory has a fine setting on a slight rise overlooking the River Blackwater on the Armagh/Tyrone border, near Moy.

Portfolio: Roman Architecture records 1 to 4 of 241 View: thumbnails text list image & label description Arch of Constantine. Relief detail. - Roman Late Antique Anonymous (284 - c. 500) Arch of Constantine. Relief detail. - Roman Late Antique Anonymous (284 - c. 500) Arch of Constantine. - Roman Late Antique Anonymous (284 - c. 500) Hippodrome. General view. - Roman Late Antique Anonymous (284 ...