Ancient Greek temple - Wikipedia
Between the 9th century BC and the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek temples developed from the small mud brick structures into double-porched monumental "peripteral" buildings with …
List of ancient Greek and Roman roofs - Wikipedia
The list of ancient roofs comprises roof constructions from Greek and Roman architecture, ordered by clear span. Roof constructions increased in clear span as Greek and Roman …
List of Ancient Greek temples - Wikipedia
An ambitious building of distinctive plan, having a stylobate rising in two levels and aisles of sufficient width to suggest that either a second row of columns was intended, or that the …
Greek Structures | Greek Roofs - History Archive
Temple Roofs: The roofs of temples were particularly elaborate. The Parthenon in Athens, for example, had a gabled roof with a slight curvature known as entasis to correct optical illusions. …
Architecture in Ancient Greece - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Greek architects strove for the precision and excellence of workmanship that are the hallmarks of Greek art in general. The formulas they invented as early as the sixth century …
Definition in architecture, ancient Greek temples - Britannica
Pediment, in architecture, triangular gable forming the end of the roof slope over a portico (the area, with a roof supported by columns, leading to the entrance of a building); or a similar form …
Structural Elements of Ancient Greek Temples
Aug 29, 2012 · As far as it concerns the roofs of Greek temples, they were made of wood. They consisted of vertical posts standing on tops of walls or on horizontal beams (wooden or marble …
Morphology of Ancient Temples – Μάθε περισσότερα… Ένας …
On the two narrow sides of the temple, in correspondence to the pitched roof and above the entablature, are the triangular pediments. Three orders or styles can be distinguished in …
Tholos | Greek, Round, Temples | Britannica
tholos, in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof and with or without a peristyle, or surrounding colonnade. In the Mycenaean period, tholoi were large …
Marble roof tiles from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis | Greek ...
Title: Marble roof tiles from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis. Period: Hellenistic. Date: ca. early 3rd century BCE. Culture: Greek. Medium: Marble. Dimensions: 50 × 12 × 52 in., 550 lb. (127 × …
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