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Lion Gate

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Description: Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the...
~Only in Egypt had a monumental ashlar architecture emerged in the third millennium BC, thanks to her rich holdings of sandstone, limestone, travertine (“alabaster”), and granite. The result was the colossal temples, obelisks, and pyramids that still stand in abundance. There was no such abundance of stone in Mesopotamia, and no such architecture until...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.19-48
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00283.3
Description: Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the...
IPHIGENEIA’S dream, that the imminent destruction of a column representing her brother, Orestes, presaged the ruin of her ancestral house, hints at anxieties which have survived the centuries. For many people during the last two thousand years the passing of the standards represented ultimately by the Greek male and...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.8-22
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00026.005

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