The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

Wolf-Dieter Heilmeye r is an archaeologist of international renown who also has the reputation of being a highly proactive museum director: He was one of the originators of the ambitious new layout of ...

If you’re a fan of traditional decor, you probably appreciate the elegant lines and rich history of neoclassical style. Interest in classical style really took off in the second half of the 18th ...

Confinement makes us more aware of architecture, if only of that little sliver of space in which we find ourselves penned. But so long as we have the internet we can be, like Hamlet, “kings of ...

Whether it's to start analyzing a detail or impressing someone in conversation, understanding a classical building begins with an awareness of the different classical orders of architecture. In the ...

Themis Bobolas and Athena Axioti, the husband-and-wife team behind Greek jewellery brand Apriati, have spent almost 20 years developing the silk-wax cord that nonchalantly ensnares their delicate gold ...

Classicism is a broad river that has run through Western architecture for two-and-a-half millennia. A generation ago it seemed that the stream had reduced to a trickle. Only a small phalanx of ...