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1. • • Despite its universality rooted in ancient Greece, the Greek Revival idiom was considered an expression of local nationalism and civic virtue in each country that adopted it, and freedom from the lax detail and frivolity that then characterized the architecture of France and Italy, two countries where the style never really took architecturally.
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   Why is Greek Revival so popular?

   • Greek Revival, architectural style, based on 5th-century-bc Greek temples, which spread throughout Europe and the United States during the first half of the 19th century. The main reasons for the style’s popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation with ancient Greek culture

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   How did Greek Revival change America?

   • And so with ancient Greece as its muse, everything ancient became new again as American developers and builders began to forge Greek Revival as a dominant national style across the country, leaving state capitol buildings, banks, New England churches, urban row houses, galleried cottages, and southern plantation houses in its wake.

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   What is Greek Revival architecture?

   • This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper. Greek Revival, architectural style, based on 5th-century-bc Greek temples, which spread throughout Europe and the United States during the first half of the 19th century.

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   When did Greek Revival architecture become popular?

   • Popular from 1825 to 1860 in more isolated parts of the country, the Greek Revival style was prevalent right up to the Civil War. In time, Greek Revival architecture became known as the national style, so pervasive were the temple-fronted façades on the nation’s churches, banks, town halls and houses.

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   Greek Revival, architectural style, based on 5th-century-bc Greek temples, which spread throughout Europe and the United States during the first half of the 19th century. The main reasons for the style’s popularity seem to have been the general intellectual preoccupation with ancient Greek culture.

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   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 Charles Barry 's Gothic design for the Palace of Westminster in 1836.

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   In time, Greek Revival architecture became known as the national style, so pervasive were the temple-fronted façades on the nation’s churches, banks, town halls and houses. Appropriate to the nation’s emerging sense of self, one of the country’s first Greek Revival buildings was the Second Bank of the United States built in Philadelphia ...

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   Dec 8, 2023 · Greek Revival architecture is inspired by the symmetry, proportion, simplicity, and elegance of the ancient Greek temples of 5th century B.C. It is characterized by elements such as Greek temple-style façades with bold round, square or even octagonal columns in wood or stucco, and painted white columns that mimic the marble used in ancient ...

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   Aug 18, 2023 · Another of the important characteristics of Greek Revival architecture is the use of pediments and friezes. Pediments are elements that can be found atop columns and porticos, and they are triangular-shaped structures that are generally decorated with some kind of sculpted design. The most common of these kinds of designs make use of more ...

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 3257126The Greek Revival in the United States - JSTOR

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   BY JOSEPH DOWNS. The background of the Greek who Revival had been in trained the in England as an en- United States was one of progress gineer and and architect, com- arrived in Philadelphia. mercial expansion. Americans Describing of the himself period as a "bigoted Greek," it from 1820 to 1860 enjoyed for was the he and first his pupils time ...

9. www.britishmuseum.org › visit › object-trailsGreek Revival architecture: simplicity and splendour

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   For the first time, ancient Greek buildings were studied and recorded in detail. This research influenced contemporary architects, artists and designers like Smirke. His design for the British Museum was created at the pinnacle of what is now known as the Greek Revival movement.