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Greek Revival
Greek Revival. Style of architecture in which accurate copies of Ancient Greek motifs were incorporated in the design of buildings from the 1750s. It was essentially part of Neo-Classicism in that it drew upon scholarly studies of Antique buildings, especially the work of Stuart (who designed the early Doric garden-temple at Hagley, Worcs. (1758), the first example of the Doric Revival) and Revett in the Antiquities of Athens (from 1762). In the mid-C18 Greece and most of what had been Greek territories were part of the Ottoman Empire, and therefore relatively unknown in the West. Curiously, the accessible Greek temples at Paestum in Italy and in Sicily had never really been studied, and were not taken seriously until relatively late, because baseless Greek Doric was seen as primitive and uncouth. Early admirers of Greek architecture included Winckelmann, Ledoux, and Soane, but the Revival was not universally adopted until after the Napoleonic wars, when it was associated with national aspirations. Unlike older styles, it was not tainted with discredited ideas or regimes, and was widely used in the USA, the British Isles, Prussia, and Bavaria. Among its most accomplished practitioners were Hamilton, Hansen, von Klenze, Playfair, Schinkel, Smirke, Strickland, Thomson, and Wilkins.
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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Greek Revival." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Greek Revival." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-GreekRevival.html JAMES STEVENS CURL. "Greek Revival." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-GreekRevival.html |
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Greek Revival
Greek Revival, neoclassical movement in architecture and the arts, occurred in Europe and the U.S. during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and was directly influenced by archaeological excavations in Greece, and at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Although Jefferson's design for the Virginia state capitol (1785) had the plan of a Roman temple, the revival was really Greek, and had as its most influential architects Latrobe, Mills, Strickland, and T.U. Walter. The Capitol and most other federal and state buildings were created under the influence of this style, which later shared supremacy (c. 1850–60) with that of the Gothic Revival.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Greek Revival." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Greek Revival." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-GreekRevival.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Greek Revival." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-GreekRevival.html |
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Greek Revival
Greek Revival and Greek Taste. See Neoclassicism.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Greek Revival." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Greek Revival." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-GreekRevivalGreekTaste.html IAN CHILVERS. "Greek Revival." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-GreekRevivalGreekTaste.html |
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Greek Revival
Greek Revival and Greek Taste. See Neoclassicism.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Greek Revival." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Greek Revival." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-GreekRevivalGreekTaste.html IAN CHILVERS. "Greek Revival." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-GreekRevivalGreekTaste.html |
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Greek revival
Greek revival see classic revival . |
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"Greek revival." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Greek revival." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-Greekrev.html "Greek revival." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-X-Greekrev.html |
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