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Analysis of ancient buildings with modern Los Angeles buildings

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The entire villa has not been excavated and so the original architects who designed the Getty Villa almost forty years ago could not replicate it exactly. Instead they copied the elements that had been exposed through excavation and then incorporated elements from other country estates in Pompeii and Herculaneum. The villa which was renovated in the late 1990s to add an open-air theater that resembles those at which Romans would have watched plays and feats of oratory demonstrates the proportional balance of Roman architecture. A number of the galleries also include friezes and other embellishments on the surface of the stonework. These decorative elements have the effect not of sullying the gracefulness of the structure or of making it look cluttered but rather of humanizing the scale of the buildings

Classical culture along with neoclassical culture is often called humanistic, and this is a useful reference to remember. Classically influenced architecture like the Getty Villa are designed both to cradle human denizens and to loft them toward the heavens. Standing under the colonnades of the Getty Villa, one feels both rooted and elevated. The villa also. offers visitors a sense of peace, in no small