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History Of Art
Ancient buildings are known to have had a strong influence on generally all buildings which presently exist in the world. There are various factors influencing a certain building's shape, such as its purpose, the investments that people are willing to put in it, and the traditional features which are characteristic to similar buildings. The Pantheon is one of the most famous buildings in the world, and, in spite of the fact that the Western Roman Empire fell a few centuries consequent to its building, the monument has managed to provide inspiration for a large number of buildings constructed after it. Built in totally different circumstances, but, by people that have basically had the same intention, the Hagia Sophia building in Istanbul is one of the buildings renowned for its resemblance with the Pantheon.
The Romans have built the Pantheon so that they would have an impressive temple from which they would be able to pray to their gods. In contrast, the Hagia Sophia had been built so that people would worship the Christian god inside of it. The Pantheon is one of the most influential buildings ever to have existed, with people having adapted certain elements from the structure to the buildings that they have later constructed. The Hagia Sophia is no less impressive, as it is a perfect example of Byzantine building style. In spite of their initial purposes, the Pantheon had later become a place where Christians worshiped their god and the Hagia Sophia had later become a place where Muslims worshipped Allah.
The base structure of the Pantheon is a cylinder, while the Hagia Sophia rests on a square-shaped base. The roofs of both buildings have been intended to resemble heavenly places. Both structures have provided their builders with a great challenge, as little buildings of such magnitude had been built until the time.
It is curious how one of the greatest Christian basilicas has gotten to the point where it came to be used as a mosque. Moreover, it is surprising that most Muslims consider it to have had a great influence on other mosques around the world. In spite of the fact that the building has not suffered great transformations consequent to it becoming part of the Ottoman Empire, it hold several elements which differentiate it from other Christian basilicas, such as the four minarets added by the Muslims.
For the most part, he appears to make the most of the sources of evidence that are existent and available to scholars today to reach his findings regarding aspects of Egyptian communal life. Still, the most convincing aspects of that identity are the external ones that exist in relation to tangible markers of culture. The many illustrations, hieroglyphic text, and analyses of Egyptian architecture allows for some relatively simple
Another notable development and contribution of ancient from Greek is the Olympics. The event was begun in Greek as an entertainment session but later evolved into an international event. Additional invention of Greek is the architecture. The Greek were immensely talented in art and, therefore, the exemplary architectural inventions and developments in the modern world today. They all can trace the history of the building system in this ancient
Ancient Greek urban planning dates its glory to Pericles. Temple architecture sourced in a precedent civilization, the Minoan of Crete, is actually reflective of palace architecture from that society's maritime city-state, Knossos (de la Croix, H. And Tansey). The Greek civis was largely informed by astronomy; influencing everything from temple design to the order of the public City-State. 'Archaeoastronomical' patterns beginning with the Geometric through the final Hellenistic period in
Staircase ramps which are comprised of steep and narrow steps that lead up one face of the pyramid were more in use at that time with evidence found at the Sinki, Meidum, Giza, Abu Ghurob, and Lisht pyramids respectively (Heizer). A third ramp variation was the spiral ramp, found in use during the nineteenth dynasty and was, as its name suggests, comprised of a ramp covering all faces of the
Houses permitted the people to move from a nomadic existence to a settled and more organized way of life. The majority of the houses were square with other rooms built on. The palaces of the early Sumerian culture were the political, economic and religious focal points of the city; large-scale, lavishly decorated, and consisted of rooms used to house craftsmen and such. Archaeological finds have also revealed them to
One exception to this is Pausanias, a Greek writer. He recorded the quarrying done in Greece but he lived in the second century a.D. For other details, the information related to their architecture is limited to the writings of Vitruvius, an architect in Rome, also a military engineer and a writer who lived during the rule of Augustus (Masrgary, 1957; Derry and Williams, 1961). The Greek construction inherits its glory