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4 days ago · Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). What is today recognised as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
4 days ago · Sir John Soane RA FSA FRS (/ soʊn /; né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. The son of a bricklayer, he rose to the top of his profession, becoming professor of architecture at the Royal Academy and an official architect to the Office of Works.
3 days ago · After the flamboyance of Baroque architecture, the Neoclassical architecture of the 18th century revived purer versions of classical style, and for the first time added direct influence from the Greek world.
1 day ago · The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art's (ICAA) mission is to advance the appreciation and practice of the principles of traditional architecture and its allied arts by engaging educators, professionals, students, and enthusiasts.
2 days ago · My Maker’s Bounding Line, defining me, Come, hidden Wisdom, come with all you bring, Come to me now, disguised as everything. Poem from Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press, 2012). Visual artist Hannah Rose Thomas, architect Charles Howell, and poet Malcolm Guite celebrate the freedom of coloring within the lines.
4 days ago · Art Institute of Chicago, museum in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., featuring European, American, and Asian sculpture, paintings, prints and drawings, decorative arts, photography, textiles, and arms and armour, as well as African, pre-Columbian American, and ancient art.
3 days ago · Frank Lloyd Wright’s first privately commissioned home, the William Winslow House, has hit the market in River Forest with an asking price of nearly $2 million. The house, completed in 1894 ...
