Current historical study of Roman architecture generally begins in 509 BCE with the establishment of the Roman Republic. The Romans were heavily influenced by the people of Greece and Etruria ...

Regardless of the outcome, according to Marcello Mogetta, managing director of the Gabii Project, this structure is unprecedented within the archaeology of the Roman Republic—a period ...

an art and architecture historian and director of Rome’s National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art. She listed some of the variations: the wholesale repurposing of old structures such as ...

At that time, archaeological discoveries at ancient sites like Herculaneum and Pompeii reignited interest in Greco-Roman art and architecture ... ideals of the young republic, so it became ...

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“Gothic was an innovative, progressive architecture,” says Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University ... and in the Czech Republic, at St. Vitus Cathedral.