Tag Archives: Willem van Neulandt

antiquity: thrifty and expedient

…One wonders in looking at the the desolation of the Roman Forum or the Athenian Agora, of all the architectural splendor which once adorned these centres, why there is so little to see. Why have so many buildings vanished entirely … Continue reading

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re-cycle the past

In earlier times pagan temples were converted into Christian churches, mausoleums made to serve as fortresses, sarcophagi put to use as bathtubs: by such thrifty and practical expedients untold treasures from classical antiquity have been preserved from ruin and destruction… … Continue reading

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