Pantheon, Rome

The Incas were truly amazing. There was no other word for it. The empire that the Incas created was 2,500 miles long. The incas took ideas from others and expanded on them. Some of the ideas that they took came to be very important in society and well known today and helped them to flourish. You will see some of the artifacts later in the gallery room. One important part of the Incas was the culture. Culture was important to the Incas. Some of the artifacts in the Inca culture was the sun…

Art and architecture are often used to convey power and authority of the historical time periods they represent. The Ancient Egyptians were a great example; their complex pyramids and monumental statues evidenced a desire to use art as propaganda to affirm the ruler’s power and status. The depiction of power through art continued in the Classical period of the Greeks. Greek sculptors and other artists were fixated on creating images and statues that focused on the ideal aspects of the human…

perfectly in their original form, are the Greek Parthenon and the Roman Pantheon. Together they are monuments to human’s artistry and ability to create. Both buildings are connected in a number of ways and yet each also has very distinctive features and functions. Despite their similarities and differences, each stands as an example we can use to learn about the cultures from which they came. The Parthenon and the Pantheon are both built on sites that held the remains of previous versions of…

What would you do if there was no clean water, where you work is where you parent work, or if you are poor than you are going to be poor for your entire life? Greek expanding started around from 400 B.C.E and ended around 150 B.C.E (Cole 83). It was a time of city-state, and expansion and innovation. While many culture have influence modern world today, Classical Greek have influenced the development of the Democracy, the Aqueducts, and Western though. To begin with, U.S.A, British, German…

baptismal hall was covered with marble and decorated with ritual inscriptions Religious sacrifices. The temple of Parthenon consists of four sections, unlike the other Greek temples. It consists of only three sections. The sections of the Temple of the Pantheon are: - The first section, which is the entrance of pronaos and has a small depth, preceded by a gallery on 6 columns of the periodic style. - The middle and sacred section is called CELLE or NAOS. This section is located just behind…

Ancient Greece was superior to Rome when it came to art. Greek sculptures goals tried to produce an ideal artistic form, while Rome produced realistic portraits, mainly used for decoration. Roman’s did a lot of mosaic pieces or wall paintings. Greece made a great deal of different sculptures using stone and marble. The Greek and Roman governments had a few similarities ,but were still quite different from each other. The social classes of Greece were: slaves, freedmen, metics, citizens, and…

Ancient Phoenicia was a geographically positioned that led to great wealth and spread its influence through trade. Geography played a very important role in the empire's growth. I am going to explain the land location, trading, and defensive positions of Phoenicia. Ancient Phoenicia was near the water, which made it the ideal location for a trading hub. It was north of Canaan which is modern day is Palestine and the coastal area of modern day Gaza.This allowed Phoenicia to expand into a…

The Roman Baths There are many different social and political aspects about the roman baths.The big roman baths had a statue to worship there gods or to help them relax. They went their to make New friends and allies. They also came to relax. When people came they would spend some time in each bath cold,warm, and hot. Some people just came to clean their bodies. The Romans valued their baths and found them a luxury. Roman men were the only ones that were allowed to enter the public baths for…

either end of an arch, there to help hold that redirected pressure. The construction of the aqueducts takes advantage of arches by using them side by side, over hundreds of miles sometimes to support the elevated waterways (Alchin). The Colosseum in Rome utilizes these connected arches (called an “arcade” when arranged in this fashion) to support the structure as it rises to its full…

The renaissance movement started in Florence, Italy, with Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the first architect to design a dome and come up with a way to build said dome that would go on the Florence Cathedral. This was the first dome to surpass the Pantheon in size. One Church he designed and built is San Lorenzo. Again he builds another fascinating dome but he focuses on linear perspective when designing this church. Alberti brought about the use of using…