History of Ancient Art

acropolis ancient Antiphellos antiquity Apollo appears arch archaic architecture artistic Asia Assyrian Athens beams beauty bronze building capital carved ceiling cella century B.C. Chaldæan chambers chief chryselephantine color colossal columns construction Corinthian cornice cubits decoration deities Diadochi Doric style echinos Egypt Egyptian employed entablature entirely epistyle erected Etruscan exterior figures floral column frieze front gable Greece Greek hall head height Hellenic Heracles horizontal imitation important influence interior Ionic kings known later lions Lycia Lysippos marble masonry ment Mesopotamia metopes monuments Mykenæ nature Nimrud Olympia original ornament painting palace Parthenon Pausanias peculiar period peripteral peripteros Persian Pheidias Phoenician piers Pliny Polycleitos Polygnotos portal Praxiteles preserved primitive pteroma pyramid reliefs remains representations represented revetment Rock-cut Tomb Roman Rome roof ruins sculpture shaft side Sikyon similar so-called space statues stone stood structure temple terrace Tholos tion triglyphs tumulus upper walls Zeus