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Greek Revival was a late style of the Neoclassical Architecture which became fashionable in Europe from from ca. 1800 onward. A fashion for rather straightforward imitations of the Greek temples spread across Europe after the Elgin Marbles had been brought from Greece and the Parthenon had come to be regarded as the pinnacle of architectural perfection. Major examples of the Greek Revival architecture in Europe include the Brandenburg Gate and Altes Museum in Berlin , the Glyptothek in Munich , the Bourse in Saint Petersburg , and the British Museum in London . Greek Revival is considered the first style, was no longer favored. Greece was now looked at the true home of Democracy , and the Mother of Rome . Also, Greece had begun her war of independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821, invoking much sympathy from the newly independent United States. GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECTS IN THE UNITED STATES , by Thomas U. Walter]]
SEE ALSO SEE ALSO GREEK-REVIVAL HOMES SUCH AS Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia , USA |
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