"The Tower of the Winds, Athens" from The Antiquities of Athens, 1762.

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture. With a new found access to Greece archaeologist-architects of the period studied the Doric and Ionic monuments of antiquity and applied its lessons to their own work, marking a departure from the Roman inspired classicism of Robert Adam and William Chambers. It was an international design movement, examples of which can be found in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Finland (where the assembly of Greek buildings in Helsinki city centre is particularly notable). Yet in each country it touched, the style was looked on as the expression of local nationalism and civic virtue, especially in Germany and America, where the idiom was regarded as free from any ecclesiastical or aristocratic associations. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The frieze of the tower showing the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right). ... Hellenism, from Greek Έλληνισμός (Hellenismos), imitation of the Greeks; German Hellenizein, to speak Greek. ... The neoclassical movement that produced Neoclassical architecture began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. ... The Doric order was one of the orginal pokersthree orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. ... Architects first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 (Plate XX) Ionic order: 1 - entrablature, 2 - column, 3 - cornice, 4 - frieze, 5 - architrave or epistyle, 6 - capital (composed of abacus and volutes), 7 - shaft, 8... Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. ... William Chambers may refer to: William Chambers (architect), an 18th century Scottish architect William Chambers (publisher), a 19th century Scottish publisher This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Province Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Charter 1550 Capital city 1812 Government  - City manager Jussi Pajunen Area  - City 187. ...

The term Greek revival was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the Royal Academy in 1842. The term was indicative of how highly self-conscious these practitioners of the style were who knew that they had created a new mode of architecture. Architects of the time were never wholly successful in adapting the form of a classical basilica to the needs of the modern city; only too often we find a Doric portico merely yoked to a conventional neo-palladian building. However, the taste for all things Greek in furniture and interior design was at its peak by the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the designs of Thomas Hope had influenced a number of decorative styles known variously as Neoclassical, Empire, Russian Empire, and Regency. Greek Revival architecture took a different course in a number of countries, lasting up till the Civil War in America (1860s) and even later in Scotland. The style was also exported to Greece under the first two (German and Danish) kings of the newly independent nation. The main entrance to the Fitzwilliam Museum. ... The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. ... St. ... Thomas Hope (c. ... The neoclassical movement that produced Neoclassical architecture began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Late Baroque. ... Empire is an early 19th century style of architecture and furniture design that and originates from Napoleons rule of France. ... Regency may have several meanings: A regency may be a period of time when a regent holds power in the name of the current monarch, or in the name of the Crown itself, if the throne is vacant. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total...

Greek Revival architecture in Britain

Despite the unbounded prestige of ancient Greece amongst the educated elite of Europe, there was little to no direct knowledge of that civilization before the middle of the 18th century. The monuments of Greek antiquity were known chiefly from Pausanias and other literary sources. Visiting Ottoman Greece was a difficult and dangerous business prior to the period of stagnation beginning with the Great Turkish War. Few Grand Tourists called on Athens during the first half of the 18th century, and none made any significant study of the architectural ruins. It would take until the expedition funded by the Society of Dilettanti of 1751 by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett before serious archaeological enquiry began in earnest. Stuart and Revett's findings, published as The Antiquities of Athens (first vol. 1762, vol. 5, 1816), along with Julien-David Le Roy's Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758) were the first accurate surveys of ancient Greek architecture. Intellectual curiosty quickly led to a desire to emulate, so Stuart was commissioned after his return from Greece by George Lyttelton to produce the first Greek building in England, the garden temple at Hagley Hall (1758). A number of British architects in the second half of the century took up the expressive challenge of the Doric from their aristocratic patrons, including Joseph Bonomi and John Soane, but it was to remain the private enthusiasm of connoisseurs up to the first decade of the nineteenth century. Pausanias (Greek: ) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. ... The Great Turkish War refers to a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and contemporary European powers, then joined into a Holy League, during the second half of the 17th century. ... For the bicycle racing term Grand Tour, see Grand Tour (cycling). ... The Dilettante Society or Dilettanti was a society of noblemen and gentlemen founded in England in 1734, and which contributed to correct and purify the public taste of the country; their labours were devoted chiefly to the study of the relics of ancient Greek art, and resulted in the production... James Stuart has been the name of several historical figures. ... Nicholas Revett (born 1720; died 1804) was a British artist known for his famous work with James Stuart (1713-1788) documenting the ruins of ancient Athens. ... Hagley Hall, of Hagley, Worcestershire and its park are among the supreme achievements of eighteenth-century English architecture and landscape gardening. ... Joseph Bonomi or Giuseppi Bonomi may mean either of a father-son pair notable in architecture and sculpture: Joseph Bonomi the Elder (1739-1808), architect Joseph Bonomi the Younger (1796-1878), sculptor, Egyptologist This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... Sir John Soane (10 September 1753 - 20 January 1837) was a British architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical tradition. ...

Hamilton's design for the Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1831, RSA

Seen in its wider social context, Greek Revival architecture sounded a new note of sobriety and restraint in public buildings in Britain around 1800 as an assertion of nationalism attendant on the Act of Union, the Napoleonic wars, and the clamour for political reform. It was to be William Wilkins's winning design for the public competition for Downing College that announced the Greek style was to be the dominant idiom in architecture. Wilkins and Robert Smirke went on to build some of the most important buildings of the era, including the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1808-9), the General Post Office (1824-9), and the British Museum (1823-48), Wilkins University College London (1826-30), and the National Gallery (1832-8). In Scotland the style was avidly adopted by William Henry Playfair, Thomas Hamilton, and Charles Robert Cockerell, who severally and jointly contributed to the massive expansion of Edinburgh's New Town, including the Calton Hill development and the Moray estate. Such was the popularity of the Doric in Edinburgh that the city now enjoys a striking visual uniformity, and as such is sometimes whimsically referred to as the Athens of the North. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The Royal High School (RHS) in Edinburgh can trace its roots back to 1128, and is generally considered as the oldest school in Scotland and one of the oldest in Europe; it may even be one of the oldest surviving in the world. ... Eugène Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People, symbolising French nationalism during the July Revolution 1830. ... Act of Union can mean: United Kingdom The Act of Union is a name given to several acts passed by the English, Scottish and British Parliaments from 1536 onwards. ... There have been at least three notable people called William Wilkins: William Wilkins, (1778-1839), British architect and archeologist William Wilkins, (1779-1865), American lawyer, U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania, Secretary of War William A. Wilkins, (fl. ... Full name Downing College Motto Quaerere Verum Seek the truth Named after Sir George Downing Previous names - Established 1800 Sister College Lincoln College Master Prof. ... Robert Smirke (1752 - January 5, 1845), English painter, was born at Wigton near Carlisle. ... Numerous theatres, especially in the UK, have been named Theatre Royal; the name was once an indication that the theatre had a Royal Patent without which theatrical performances were illegal. ... Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. ... The British Museum in London, England is one of the worlds greatest museums of human history and culture. ... Affiliations University of London Russell Group LERU EUA ACU Golden Triangle G5 Website http://www. ... Londons National Gallery, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. ... This article is about the country. ... Old College, University of Edinburgh, courtyard facade: detail by Playfair William Henry Playfair (1790-1857) was one of the greatest Scottish architects of the 19th Century. ... Thomas Hamilton, (1784 - 1858) was a Scottish architect, based in Edinburgh. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... The Edinburgh New Town is a neo-classical masterpiece. ...

If it is tempting to see the Greek revival as the expression of Regency authoritarianism, then the changing conditions of life in Britain made Doric the loser of the Battle of the Styles, dramatically symbolized by the selection of Barry's Gothic design for the Palace of Westminster in 1836. Nevertheless, Greek continued to be in favour in Scotland well into the 1870s in the singular figure of Alexander Thomson. The Battle of the Styles is a term used to refer to the conflict between supporters of the Gothic style and the Classical style in architecture. ... “Houses of Parliament” redirects here. ... Alexander Thomson, c. ...

Greek revival in Germany and France

Klenze's Walhalla, Regensburg, Bavaria, 1842

In Germany the Greek revival is predominantly found in two centres, Berlin and Munich. In both locales, Doric was the court style rather than a popular movement, and was heavily patronized by Frederick William II and Ludwig I as the expression of their desires for their respective seats to become the capital of Germany. The earliest Greek building was the Brandenburg Gate (1788-91) by Carl Gotthard Langhans, who modelled it on the Propylea. Ten years after the death of Frederick the Great, the Berlin Akademie initiated a competition for a monument to the king that would promote “morality and patriotism." Friedrich Gilly’s unexecuted design for a temple raised above the Leipziger Platz caught the tenor of high idealism that the Germans sought in Greek architecture and was enormously influential on Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Leo von Klenze. Schinkel was in a position to stamp his mark on Berlin after the catastrophe of the French occupation ended in 1813; his work on what is now the Altes Museum, Schauspielhaus, and the Neue Wache transformed that city. Similarly, in Munich von Klenze’s Glyptothek and Walhalla were the fulfillment of Gilly’s vision of an orderly and moral German world. Image File history File links Walhalla_aussen. ... Image File history File links Walhalla_aussen. ... The Brandenburg Gate The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate and one of the main symbols of Berlin, Germany. ... Carl Gotthard Langhans (born December 15, 1732 in Landeshut, Silesia; died October 1, 1808 in Grüneiche bei Breslau) was a Prussian builder and architect. ... Crowds of tourists climb the steps to the Propylaea, gateway to the Acropolis, Athens Stairs leading up to the Propylea The Propylaea, Propylea or Propylaia (Greek Προπυλαια) is the monumental gateway that serves as the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. ... Frederick II (German: ; January 24, 1712 – August 17, 1786) was a King of Prussia (1740–1786) from the Hohenzollern dynasty. ... Friedrich David Gilly (1772 - 1800) was a German architect born in Pomerania, known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel. ... The Old Museum in Berlin Karl Friedrich Schinkel (March 13, 1781 - October 9, 1841) was a German architect and painter. ... Ruhmeshalle in Munich Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze, February 29, 1784 - January 27, 1864) - German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. ... Berlin, Old Museum, June 2003 The Altes Museum or Old Museum (until 1845 Royal Museum) located on Berlins Museum Island was built between 1825 and 1828 by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the neoclassical style to house the Prussian Royal familys art collection. ... The Gendarmenmarkt is a famous square in Berlin, surrounded by the Concert Hall, the French and the German Cathedral. ... Neue Wache in Berlin The New Guard House in Berlin (German: ) was the first building in Berlin to be designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. ... The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures (hence Glypto-, from the Greek root glyphein, to carve). ... View of the Walhalla from the Danube View of the Walhalla main hall The Walhalla, Hall of Fame and Honor is a hall of fame located on the Danube River 10 km from Regensburg, in Bavaria, Germany. ...

By comparison, the Greek revival in France was never popular with either the State or the public. What little there is started with Charles de Wailly’s crypt in the church of St Leu-St Gilles (1773-80), and Claude Nicolas Ledoux’s Barriere des Bonshommes (1785-9). First-hand evidence of Greek architecture was of very little importance to the French, due to the influence of Marc-Antoine Laugier’s doctrines that sought to discern the principles of the Greeks instead of their mere practices. It would take until Laboustre’s Neo-Grec of the second Empire for the Greek revival to briefly flower in France Charles De Wailly: Project for transformation of the Panthéon, Paris into a temple to the republic. ... Portrait of Ledoux with his son. ... Marc-Antoine (Abbe) Laugier (September 26, 1713, Manosque, Provence - April 7, 1769, Paris) was a Jesuit priest and author. ... Neo-Grec is a term usually used to refer to a particular manifestation of the Neoclassical style in the decorative arts, painting, and architecture of France, during the Second Empire of Napoleon III, lasting approximately between 1848 and 1865. ...

Greek Revival in the United States

Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, 1824

Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the first volume of The Antiquities of Athens^[1], and though he never practiced in the style Jefferson was to prove instrumental in introducing Greek Revival architecture to the United States. In 1803, Benjamin Latrobe was appointed by Jefferson as surveyor of public building in the United States, Latrobe went on to design a number of important public buildings in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, including work on the United States Capitol and the Bank of Pennsylvania.^[2] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 825 KB)Copyright 2006 Peter Clericuzio. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 825 KB)Copyright 2006 Peter Clericuzio. ... Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ... Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (May 1, 1764 - September 3, 1820) was a British-born American architect best known for his design of the United States Capitol. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the location for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. ...

Latrobe's design for the Capitol was an imaginative interpretation of the classical orders not constrained by historical precedent, incorporating American motifs such as corncobs and tobacco leaves into his capitals. This idiosyncratic approach was to become typical of the American attitude to Greek detailing. His overall plan for the Capitol did not survive, though much of his interiors do. He also did notable work on the Supreme Court interior (1806-7) and his masterpiece, the Basilica of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Baltimore (1805-21). Even as he claimed that “I am a bigoted Greek in the condemnation of the Roman architecture…,” he did not seek to rigidly impose Greek forms, stating that “[o]ur religion requires a church wholly different from the temple, our legislative assemblies and our courts of justice, buildings of entirely different principles from their basilicas; and our amusements could not possibly be performed in their theatres or amphitheatres.”^[3] Latrobe’s circle of junior colleagues would prove to be an informal school of Greek revivalists, and it was his influence that was to shape the next generation of American architects. This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Photo of the newly renovated Exterior of the Basilica taken after the first Mass celebrated in there on October 29, 2006. ...

The second phase in the development of American Greek revival saw the pupils of Latrobe create a monumental national style under the patronage of banker and hellenophile Nicholas Biddle, including such works as the Second Bank of the United States by William Strickland (1824), Biddle’s home "Andalusia" by Thomas U. Walter (1835-6), and Girard College also by Walter (1833-47). At the same time, the popular appetite for the Greek was sustained by architectural pattern books, the most important of which was Asher Benjamin’s The Practical House Carpenter (1830). This guide helped create the proliferation of Greek homes seen especially in northern New York State and the Western Reserves of Ohio. From the period of about 1820 to 1850, the Greek Revival style dominated the United States and could be found as far west as Illinois. Nicholas Biddle Nicholas Biddle (January 8, 1786–February 27, 1844), American financier, was born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The Second Bank of the United States was a bank chartered in 1816, five years after the expiration of the First Bank of the United States. ... William Strickland was a noted architect in 19th Century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Thomas U. Walter Portrait by Francisco Pausas, 1925, after a Mathew Brady photograph Thomas Ustick Walter (September 4, 1804 – October 30, 1887) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the dean of American architecture between the death of Benjamin Latrobe and the work of H.H. Richardson. ... Girard College in an illustration from an 1871 publication Girard College is a private philanthropic boarding school on a 43 acre (170,000 m²) campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. ...

Other notable architects to use Greek Revival designs included Latrobe's student, Robert Mills who designed the Washington Monument, as well as George Hadfield, and Gabriel Manigault.^[2] Robert Mills may mean: Robert Mills (architect) (1781-1855), an American architect Robert Mills (physicist) (1927-1999), an American physicist Robert Bob Mills, Canadian politician Robert P. Mills (1920-1986), an American crime and science fiction magazine editor Robert Lee Mills (died 2006) former president of Georgetown College Robert Mills... The Washington Monument at dusk For other Washington Monuments, see Washington Monuments (world). ...

Polychromy

Hittorff's reconstruction of Temple B at Selinus, 1851

See also: Polychrome

The discovery that the Greeks had painted their temples had a profound influence on the later development of the style. The archaeological dig at Aegina and Bassae in 1811-12 by Cockerell, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, and Karl Haller von Halllerstein had disinterred painted fragments of masonry daubed with impermanent colours. This revelation was a direct contradiction of Winckelmann’s notion of the Greek temple as timeless, fixed, and pure. In 1823, Samuel Angell discovered the coloured metopes of Temple C at Selinunte, Sicily and published them in 1826. The French architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff witnessed the exhibition of Angell’s find and endeavoured to excavate Temple B at Selinus. His imaginative reconstructions of this temple were exhibited in Rome and Paris in 1824 and he went on to publish these as Architecture polychrome chez les Grecs (1830) and later in Restitution du Temple d'Empedocle a Selinote (1851). The controversy was to inspire von Klenze’s Aegina room at the Munich Glyptothek of 1830, the first of his many speculative reconstructions of Greek colour.Gus rules baby. Hittorff lectured in Paris in 1829-30, that Greek temples had originally been painted yellow, with the moulding and sculptural details in red, blue, green, and gold. Similarlly, Henri Labrouste proposed a reconstruction of the temples at Paestum to the Academie des Beaux-Arts in 1829, decked out in startling colour, inverting the accepted chronology of the three Doric temples, thereby implying that the development of the Greek orders did not increase in formal complexity over time, i.e., the evolution from Doric to Corinthian was not inexorable. Both events were to cause a minor scandal. The emerging understanding that Greek art was subject to changing forces of environment and culture was a direct assault on the architectural rationalism of the day. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Polychrome is one of the terms used to describe the use of multiple colors in one entity. ... Aegina (Greek: Αίγινα (Egina)) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 31 miles (50 km) from Athens. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with temple of Apollo at Bassae. ... Otto Magnus baron von Stackelberg (25 July 1786 to 27 March 1837) was one of the first archaeologist, a writer, painter and art historian. ... Portrait by Raphael Mengs, after 1755 He was born in Pacifica, the son of a model. ... Temple E, the so-called Temple of Hera, at Selinus Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site situated on the south coast of Sicily between the valleys of the rivers Belice and Modione in the province of Trapani. ... Jacques Ignace Hittorff (August 20, 1792 - March 25, 1867), French architect, was born at Cologne. ... The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures (hence Glypto-, from the Greek root glyphein, to carve). ... Sainte-Geneviève library in Paris (Pierre François) Henri Labrouste (11 May 1801–24 June 1875) was a French architect from the famous École des Beaux Arts school of architecture. ... The Acad mie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society. ...

Influence

With the rise of architectural historicism in the mid-nineteenth century it is no longer possible to speak of a Greek revival movement, where the Doric is employed it is as another self-consciously anachronizing style. The San Francisco mint (completed 1874) is a case in point. Yet Greek culture and Greek design motifs continued to exert a powerful hold on late Victorian imagination and beyond. Peter Behrens’s Haus Wiegund (1911-12), for example, echos the austere classicism of Gilly and Schinkel. Further north we find a resurgent interest in rationalism dressed in the neoclassical style; Nordic Classicism. If the idiom has fallen out of favour since World War II it is thanks to its association, rightly or wrongly, with the pastiche classicism of Albert Speer which still provokes controversy as witnessed in Léon Krier’s provocative essay “Krier on Speer"^[4]. Peter Behrens (April 14, 1868–February 27, 1940) was a German architect and designer. ... Stockholm Public Library, 1920-28 Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930. ... Germany pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, 1937. ... Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer ( ; March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called the first architect of the Third Reich. His two bestselling autobiographical works, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: the Secret Diaries... Bridge pavilion, Pforzheim, Germany, by Robert and Léon Krier Léon Krier (born 1946, Luxembourg) is an architect, architectural theorist and urban planner. ...

Notes

1. ^ Hamlin op. cit. p.339
2. ^ ^{a b} Federal Writers' Project (1937). Washington, City and Capital: Federal Writers' Project. Works Progress Administration / United States Government Printing Office, p. 126. 
3. ^ The Journal of Latrobe quoted in Hamlin, Greek Revival.., p36. Dover edition.
4. ^ Krier on Speer, Architectural Review, vol.173, 1983, p 33-38.

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Primary sources

Jacob Spon or Jacques Spon (Lyon 1647 — Vevey, Switzerland, 25 December 1685), a French doctor and archaeologist, was a pioneer in the exploration of the monuments of Greece and a scholar of international reputation in the developing republic of letters. His father was Charles Spon, a doctor and Hellenist, of... Richard Pococke (1704-1765) was an English prelate and anthropologist. ... Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis dEsternay, baron de Bransac (October 31, 1692 - September 5, 1765), French archaeologist and man of letters, was born at Paris. ... Marc-Antoine (Abbe) Laugier (September 26, 1713, Manosque, Provence - April 7, 1769, Paris) was a Jesuit priest and author. ... James Stuart has been the name of several historical figures. ... Nicholas Revett (born 1720; died 1804) was a British artist known for his famous work with James Stuart (1713-1788) documenting the ruins of ancient Athens. ... Giovanni Battista (also Giambattista) Piranesi (4th October 1720 in Mogliano Veneto (near Treviso) - 9th November 1778 in Rome) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious prisons. Etching of the Pyramid of Cestius Piranesi studied his art at Rome, where the remains of that city... There have been at least three notable people called William Wilkins: William Wilkins, (1778-1839), British architect and archeologist William Wilkins, (1779-1865), American lawyer, U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania, Secretary of War William A. Wilkins, (fl. ... Ruhmeshalle in Munich Leo von Klenze (Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze, February 29, 1784 - January 27, 1864) - German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. ... Peter Oluf Brøndsted by Constantin Hansen (copy after C. A. Jensen) Peter Oluf Brøndsted (November 17, 1780 – June 26, 1842), Danish archaeologist and traveller, was born at Fruering in Jutland. ... Asher Benjamin, architect Design for a Federal style house, by Asher Benjamin Asher Benjamin (June 15, 1773-July 26, 1845), born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, was a prominent American architect who transitioned between Federal style architecture and later Greek Revival. ...

References

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• Greek Revival Architecture in America, Talbot Hamlin, OUP, 1944
• Greek Revival America, Roger G. Kennedy, 1989
• The Greek Revival, J. Mordaunt Cook, 1972
• The Sources of Greek Revival Architecture, Dora Wiebenson, 1969.
• Study of Greek Revival Architecture in the Seneca and Cayuga Lake Regions, by Clifford H. Ruffner, Jr