This brewing conflict isn’t merely aesthetic. It represents fundamentally different conceptions of how architecture should ...

They recognize that the Parthenon was cutting-edge in its day ... People who fall into this camp seem to think slapping pediments and gilt-covered nonsense on a building magically imbues ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

The present Duc de Laborde has a fne female head from one of the Parthenon pediments at his Paris hotel. This relic reached France by way of Venice. Some scholars believe it to be a remnant of the ...

500 # # $a The printer is named on the reverse of page 173: `Plymouth: William Brendon and Son Printers.' 500 # # $a `To The Royal Academy of Arts this book is ...

The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been ...

For a complementary palette, it pairs best with grays and other colors that have orange and red undertones, like Roycroft Brass, Pediment, and Snowbound. It also works with highlights of blues if you ...