Greece: from Mycenae to the Parthenon

Greece: from Mycenae to the Parthenon

Henri Stierlin

Köln : Taschen

1997

Photographs: Anne and Henri Stierlin

Series: Taschen's world architecture

Introduction : Greek architecture -- a source of aesthetics -- Mycenaean architecture : fortificaitons, tombs and palaces of the "Homeric" world -- The origins of the Greek temple : the emergence of the peripteral colonnade -- Sanctuaries of magna graecia : from archaism to classicism -- The role of Greek Asia Minor : the art of Ionia and the achaemenids -- Monuments of classical Greece : the flowering of temples and fortresses -- The Acropolis of Pericles : architecture at its zenith -- Conclusion : reason -- the great organizer.

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