Roman wall painting – Ancient Rome
First Style Roman wall painting (now in the Louvre) Wall painting in ancient Rome There was also a lot of wall painting to decorate the walls of houses during this time. [...]
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Half-timbered houses – medieval architecture
Medieval European houses Half-timbered houses in Toulouse, France In the Middle Ages, many people in northern Europe (northern France, Germany, and England) built their houses in this half-timbered way. This was [...]
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06, 2017
What is straw? History of straw
History of Straw: loose straw in a pile What is straw made of? Straw is the dried stalks of tall grasses like wheat, millet or barley. After people harvested the [...]
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06, 2017
Shang houses and altars – Shang Dynasty China
The Shang Dynasty city wall around Zhengzhou (thanks to Gary Todd) There was a city wall of rammed earth around the Shang capital at An-yang, and around other cities like [...]
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06, 2017
Zhou Dynasty Architecture – Ancient China
A fancy roof tile from the Zhou Dynasty What were people building? By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, about 1100 BC, there seem to have been a lot of [...]
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05, 2017
What is marble? History of Art
What is marble? A Cycladic figurine from Ancient Greece in marble, once realistically painted. What is marble made out of? Marble is metamorphic limestone . That is, marble is a metamorphic rock [...]
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05, 2017
What is limestone? History of Art
A block of limestone Starting with seashells Limestone is a kind of sedimentary stone that is very common all over the world. This kind of stone forms out of the shells of [...]
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05, 2017
What is fresco painting? History of Art
Fresco painting from Thera, Greece (about 1600 BC) Why are they called frescos? Fresco is the Italian word for "fresh", and that's because painters do fresco painting on fresh, wet plaster [...]
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05, 2017
Why do people plaster walls? History of Architecture
A bit of plaster left on the wall of a Punic house from Carthage People used plaster to cover the bare stone or mudbrick on the walls of houses, both [...]
