Arch of Septimius Severus – Roman art
Arch of Septimius Severus. You can see the Roman Senate in the background. Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor about 200 AD who decided to put up a stone triumphal arch in the Roman [...]
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08, 2017
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08, 2017
Arch of Constantine – Roman art
Arch of Constantine in Rome, with the Colosseum in the background When Constantine killed Maxentius in the battle of the Milvian Bridge, in 312 AD, he marched triumphantly into Rome. After the [...]
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07, 2017
Early Gothic architecture
Early Gothic architecture: Notre Dame of Paris (1160s AD) What came after Romanesque? After the Romanesque period in architecture, around 1100 AD, architects in western Europe gradually started to build Christian churches and palaces in [...]
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07, 2017
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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06, 2017
Build a Roman arch – Ancient Rome project
Roman aqueduct at Nimes, France Aqueducts were the most famous way the Romans used arches, but they really used arches in all their buildings. With an arch, you could build [...]
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05, 2017
What’s a flying buttress? Medieval Europe
Flying buttress (Rouen Cathedral, 1200s AD) Gothic cathedrals In the 1100s AD, architects in northern France wanted to build big impressive Gothic cathedrals. They also wanted their cathedrals to be [...]
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05, 2017
What is a dome? History of Architecture
Dome history: the Pantheon (Rome, ca. 120 AD) Okay, you've learned how to build an arch. Now suppose you want to make a dome. How would you do that using [...]
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05, 2017
What is an arch? History of Architecture
Arches of the Medieval Baptistry at Pisa How do you hold up the roof? People building houses or any other kind of people have always had this one big problem, [...]
