Anne Stierlin Bücher

Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der römischen Architektur in Italien, Frankreich, Spanien, dem Rheinland und Nordafrika. Er behandelt alle bedeutenden römischen Amphitheater und Arenen, Tempel und Bäder, Aquädukte und Festungen sowie Pompeji und die Villa von Hadrian in Tivoli.

This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious center, Palenque, famous for its ceremonial center, and Copan, with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2500 glyphs, are among the cites featured.

This illustrated journey through the world of classical Greece focuses upon the significance of Greek antiquity; the wealth of its cultural treasures; and the various periods and the spread of Greek culture as far as southern Italy and Persia.