Literature and the Arts

Who is Ictinus?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/ictinus-90003.html" >Who is Ictinus?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Ictinus , fl. 2d half of 5th cent. BC, one of the greatest architects of Greece.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Ictinus . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: When was Ictinus born? Who created the Parthenon? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Browser. (View).(web sites for architecture)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review ...ferocious web-usability guru, Jakob Nielsen, would approve. Ictinus at last - and Callicrates too Some sites we have looked at...from prehistory to now. Back in January 2000 we tried the Ictinus test and failed to find any reference to him or to Greek architecture...
Browser: Sutherland Lyall nimbly swings through the forests of architectural...
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review ...as good as the Shorter Oxford Dictionary offers. Before those PADDI librarians write in again, I did try Callicrates and Ictinus. To no effect. There were lots and lots of words based on icon but nothing approaching the Greeks. Not a word about 'metope...
Letters.
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review ...mighty Libeskind. I cannot believe that anyone can understand that message unless they have read the script beforehand. Did Ictinus and Callicrates or Palladio require people to read a textbook before visiting their work? Can it be that both these buildings...
Sliced toast.(Browser)(Adrian Welch architecutral websites)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review ...interiors, dining, unbuilt design, links and a search page. No, since you were going to ask, there's no Callicrates or Ictinus which is just as well since this is about contemporary Edinburgh architecture and not the old stuff. There are a few slow...
Beauty secrets of the Parthenon.
Magazine article from: World and I ...did not think so--my beauty is classic, my artistry classless. Those in charge of my upbringing (the famous Pheidias, Ictinus and Callicrates) took great pains that I grew properly. Even now, I look gorgeously straight and symmetrical only because...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.