Some old masters of Greek architecture

Of all the fine arts none more completely answers for its _raison d’être_ than architecture. In this art alone do we find the harmonious mingling of æsthetical fancy with utilit...

History does not probe so deeply into the earliest annals of the races that inhabited the Peloponnesian peninsula, that it does not show them to have been pre-eminent as builder...

Who were the originators of the three great and primary orders of Grecian architecture is still a question which the discussion of the legendary and mythical architects, which h...

In the year 548 B.C. the great temple to Apollo at Delphi, the work of the legendary architects Agamedes and Trophonius, was destroyed by fire. Of the four temples to the same d...

The age of Pericles was so distinctively an era in the advancement of the arts, especially architecture, not alone in the city where Athene shed her divine intelligence and tute...

It is not the intention, in recalling some of the more conspicuous architects who flourished in the time of Pericles, to confine them to those only who were directly in his empl...

The first architect as well as artist of decided merit who arose to historic distinction at the beginning of the later Attic school, or that which followed immediately upon the...

That epoch in the art life of the Hellenic people associated with the influences arising out of the career and conquests of Alexander the Great, which we have now reached, was o...

The boldest, most ingenious and original architect who found favor in the sight of Alexander the Great was undoubtedly Dinocrates, who, like his august patron, was also a Macedo...