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Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
[19] [20] Although new temples to Greek deities still continued to be constructed, e.g. the Tychaion at Selge [21] [22] they tend to follow the canonical forms of the developing Roman imperial style of architecture [23] or to maintain local non-Greek idiosyncrasies, like the temples in Petra [24] or Palmyra. [25]
The architectural style of these buildings was heavily influenced by the western European architecture. After the Greek War of Independence and the creation of the modern Greek state, the modern Greek architecture tried to combine the traditional Greek architecture and Greek elements and motives with the western European movements and styles.
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
Architects' first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 (Plate XX) The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.
Greek Revival architecture (8 C, 8 P) Gymnasiums (ancient Greece) (5 P) H. Hellenistic architecture (2 C, 49 P) M. Mycenaean architecture (1 C, 6 P) S.
Leo von Klenze's Walhalla in Regensburg, Bavaria (1842). In Germany, Greek Revival architecture is predominantly found in two centres, Berlin and Munich.In both locales, Doric was the court style rather than a popular movement and was heavily patronised by Frederick William II of Prussia and Ludwig I of Bavaria as the expression of their desires for their respective seats to become the capital ...
In the West Greek architecture was also hugely influential, and in both East and West the influence of Greek decoration can be traced to the modern day. Etruscan and Roman art were largely and directly derived from Greek models, [ 144 ] and Greek objects and influence reached into Celtic art north of the Alps, [ 145 ] as well as all around the ...