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Architecture (1351 words) |
 | Cemeteries throughout the country are adorned with Egyptian architecture, ranging from the massive Egyptian arch spanning the entrance of the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven |
| Classical architecture draws on the Golden age of Athens and the Roman Republic, the ancient ancestors of the American Republic. |
| Architectural styling made the monuments in these cemeteries as pleasing to the eye as the landscape. |
| Greek Architecture (2894 words) |
| Callicrates and Ictinus' attitude toward religious architecture ceased to be that of the superstitious priest-architect held subject to unvaryingly precise (and often hypnotically elaborate) repetition of prescribed forms and became instead that of the artist rationalist--adjusting, refining, and simplifying forms to make them quietly effective and satisfying to the eye. |
| Greek architecture suddenly became that of this rich, powerful Hellenic empire and was forced to break out of the fixed, small-scale vocabulary of forms that had been satisfactory for the Periclean temple. |
| This was no longer an architecture of detail and refinement but one of massive (if simple) construction and political show. |
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