Architecture inevitably entails large expenditures of money, and where there is money, there is politics. What might seem like strictly stylistic affinities are rarely only that. For patrons and ...

Trump’s executive order would impose classical style on federal buildings. Should we be worried? "There is reason for alarm in the rhetoric that the king of tasteless glitz is attempting to ...

He traces its development to the arrival of classicism and the Age of Enlightenment. Show more Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens this series with the dramatic story of French art ...

The result is an urban work of art in the style of European classicism: with the Doric Propylaea, the Corinthian collection of antiquities and the Ionic Glyptothek, the Königsplatz is considered ...