Essays on Portico

The Pantheon

Moore, David. "The Pantheon." Roman Concrete. (1995). Web 26 June 2016. The Pantheon impresses with its size but it looks peaceful inside it. Solid wall round the perimeter has many niches. The idea of the Pantheon is in harmony with the surrounding world. The height of the building is equal to the diameter of the rotunda. People enter the temple through the lobby, which goes into a portico with 16 columns. Each column looks very massive. Their main parts are made of Egyptian red granite, and base and capitals - from Greek marble. Despite the impressive size of the ...

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Artistes Portico Value Proposition Artistes Portico will be a social media platform/application, which will aim at facilitating the communication between the rising artists, upcoming artist, current artists, and venues/potential hirers. It will allow user artists to create their comprehensive professional profiles that will feature their personal profile, artistic work and its portrayal, qualifications and training, testimonials, rankings, reviews, availabilities and schedules. The platform/application will not only enable them to portray their work and professionalism but would also facilitate them to outshine in their respective category/market niche. For instance, the layout will explicitly categorize the artists ...

Archaic and Hellenistic Styles

Art in Greece went through three main periods after the Dark Ages, which epitomized the geometric style. The Grecian dark ages are usually attributed to around 1000 BC of which not much exists or been researched and hence the name. The three main periods post 7th century BC were the Archaic, immediately after Greece rose from the Dark ages; Classical, during the reign of the Persians leading to the Hellenistic periods which marked the reign of Alexander the Great.

Archaic Style

The Archaic style shows a vast difference from the earlier geometric styles that were classified under the Dark Ages. Although the ...