Medieval Indian architecture
Osian Sun temple, 700s AD Two styles of temples: north and south By the 700s AD, after the collapse of the Guptan Empire, there were two different styles of temple-building in India, [...]
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Indian architecture – Ancient India
Early Indian architecture: Rock-cut temples at Ajanta, India The Stone Age and the Bronze Age The earliest buildings anyone knows of from India are from Mehrgahr, from about 7000 BC. But the [...]
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Harappan architecture – India
Harappan architecture: Bath building at Mohenjo-Daro, 2500 BC Early houses in India The earliest big buildings in India were built by the Harappan people in the Indus River valley, about 2500 BC. The Harappan [...]
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Guptan temples – Indian architecture
Guptan temples: Tigawa temple, 350 AD The first free-standing stone temples When the Mauryan empire collapsed, about 200 BC, for more than five hundred years Indian leaders were too busy fighting wars against each [...]
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Ellora Caves – Indian architecture
Outside of Carpenter's Cave, Ellora Caves, about 575 AD Guptan architecture In the Guptan period, architects in India were beginning to build more and more temples. The earlier Buddhist temples at Ajanta were [...]
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Origins of ancient Greek theaters
Theater of Dionysos on the Acropolis below the Parthenon in Athens The earliest Greek theaters, probably as early as the Stone Age, were just grassy hillsides with a flat place [...]
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What is a peristyle? Greek architecture
Peristyle in the House of the Vettii (Pompeii, 79 AD) A peristyle is a courtyard with a covered walkway all the way around it, with columns holding up the ceiling [...]
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What is a pediment? Greek architecture
The pediment is the triangular place under the roof of a Greek temple. Each temple has two pediments, one on the front and one on the back. They're always isosceles triangles. At [...]
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The Parthenon blows up – Greek architecture
A model of the gold and ivory statue of Athena inside the Parthenon Inside the Parthenon, the great sculptor Pheidias carved a huge statue of Athena made out of gold [...]
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Parthenon frieze – Greek architecture
Parthenon frieze - seated goddesses What is on the Parthenon frieze? On the Parthenon's frieze, Pheidias carved a long procession of Athenians, with girls in the front, bringing a new [...]
