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Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, Western society or simply the West, is the externally cohesive yet internally diverse culture and cultur
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De architectura.
Kristus i Getsemane (1873), an angel comforting Jesus Christ before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, by Carl Heinrich Bloch.
Plato, arguably the most influential figure in early Western philosophy.
Alexander the Great
Greece
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Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeastern Europe. It occupies the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, with a population of around 10 million. With nine regions and thous
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…towers erected in Bologna. The Parthenon under restoration in 2008, the most iconic Classical building, built from 447 BC to 432 BC, located in Athens, Greece. The facade of Angoulême Cathedral was built between 1110 and 1128 in the Romanesque style. Stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris…
The entrance of the "Treasury of Atreus" (13th century BC) in Mycenae
The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens, icon of classical Greece
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens, built in 161 AD
View of the medieval fortress city of Monemvasia