James "Athenian" Stuart FRS FSA (1713 – 2 February 1788) was a Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist, best known for his central role in pioneering...
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was a British architect. Revett is best known for his work with James "Athenian" Stuart documenting the ruins of ancient Athens. He is sometimes described...
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well-documented direct democracy is said to be the Athenian democracy of the 5th century BC. The main bodies in the Athenian democracy were the assembly, composed...
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Baalbek, and Palmyra, and the precise architectural drawings of James "Athenian" Stuart (published in the Antiquities of Athens, the first volume of which...
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Wealdstone F.C. (category Athenian League)
Cup game. In 1928–29 they switched leagues again, this time joining the Athenian League. In 1929–30 the club won the Middlesex Senior Cup and the Middlesex...
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Pottery: Athenian and Imported Wheelmade Table Ware and Related Material," part 1: text, The Athenian Agora 29 (1997), p. 177; Stuart James Fleming, Roman...
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The Athenian Mercury, or The Athenian Gazette, or The Question Project, or The Casuistical Mercury, was a periodical written by The Athenian Society and...
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and pioneer Classical archaeologist (b. 1702) 1788: February 2 - James "Athenian" Stuart, Scottish architect and archaeologist (b. 1713) Hingley, Richard...
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Jean-Baptiste Greppo, French canon and archaeologist (d. 1767) 1713: James 'Athenian' Stuart, Scottish archaeologist and architect (d. 1788) 1716: January 20...
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since the Athenian democracy. Its modern theory was developed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century and later promoted by John Stuart Mill and G...
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"Athenian" Stuart (1713–1788), archaeologist and architect James Stuart (artist) (1802–1842), quarantine officer, naturalist, and artist Jim Stuart (1919–1985)...
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chamber) above the Kings chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza. 1762: James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett's Antiquities of Athens. 1764: Robert Adam's...
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Thucydides (category Ancient Athenian generals)
Θουκυδίδης, romanized: Thoukudídēs [tʰuːkydǐdɛːs]; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the...
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Britain or the Commonwealth. The medallion is a Wedgwood portrait of James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. Source: Society of Architectural Historians 1949 - Harold Wethey...
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Παρθενώνας, romanized: Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative...
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English bookseller and writer. In 1691 he founded The Athenian Society to publish The Athenian Mercury, the first major popular periodical and first miscellaneous...
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Walton & Hersham F.C. (category Athenian League)
season won three consecutive league titles. In 1950, the club moved to the Athenian League, and were later placed in the Premier Division upon expansion in...
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surveyed and drawn by James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett on an expedition in 1751–54, and the engravings were by James Basire (later the master...
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English Restoration (1660–1688), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is...
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with follies designed by John Pitt (of Encombe), Thomas Pitt, James "Athenian" Stuart, and Sanderson Miller. Planned as part of an 18th-century enthusiasm...
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Propylaia (Acropolis of Athens) (redirect from Propylaea (Athenian acropolis))
that led to the Temple of Athena Nike. This project was supervised by the Athenian Tib. Claudius Novius, and is assumed to have been an Imperial benefaction...
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associated with Athens. Athenian may also refer to: James "Athenian" Stuart (1713–1788), Scottish archaeologist, architect and artist Athenian School, a college...
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remembered James "Athenian" Stuart in the early 1750s, intellectual curiosity quickly led to a desire among the elite to emulate the style. Stuart was commissioned...
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The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion...
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Toup, classical scholar and critic (died 1785) Unknown date – James "Athenian" Stuart, archaeologist, architect and artist (died 1788) 4 February – Anthony...
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Davies, James (1873). "George Grote," The Contemporary Review, Vol. 22, pp. 393–411. Demetriou, Kyriacos N. (1999). George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy...
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to 2015. His major works include the definitive modern treatment of the Athenian Council (or Boule), the now standard commentary on the constitutional treatise...
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Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 1832 – 8 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was...
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England, designed by Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, with James "Athenian" Stuart, is built. Church of St. Stephen, Borovo in Serbia is completed...
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aforementioned magnificently painted, and fresco-ceiling interiors by James "Athenian" Stuart who had, coincidentally, built the Temple of the Winds at the Londonderry's...
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