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Summarizing information about Egyptian and Roman architecture
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a) Say in other words:
1. Artists and craftsmen were given orders by the pharaohs;
2. The pyramids of the 4th Dynasty are the most spectacular monuments of the Old Kingdom;
3. Many Royal Monuments of the Middle Kingdom were plundered;
4. They built fortresses to protect the southern and the eastern borders;
5. Techniques of working in stone, wood, and metal were used in gigantic monuments.
b) Prove the following statements:
1. “De Architectura” by Vitruvius is the source of information on Roman architecture.
2. There were three types of houses in ancient Rome.
3. The Pantheon is the greatest temple of antiquity.
4. The Coliseum was the largest and the most impressive amphitheatre of Rome.
5. Imperial thermae were immense establishments of great magnificence.
18 Study the following quotations and use them in your own situations:
1. “There are three forms of visual art: painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through” (Dan Rice).
2. “Architecture, of all arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely on the soul” (Ernest Dimnet).
3. “An architect is the drawer of dreams” (Grace McGarvie).
4. “Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror’ (Louis Henri Sullivan).
5. “Architecture is the work of nations” (John Ruskin).
6. “Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity” (Spiro Kostof).
19 Render this text in English:
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