Architecture

Greek
Year: 900BC-1st Centruy
Origin: Greece
Character: temples
Example:Parthenon

Roman
Year: 509 BC-4th Century
Origin:Rome
Character:vaults, arches
Example:Collaseum

Romanesque
Year: 6-10th Century
Character: massive quality, thick walls, round arches, sturdy piers, groin vaults, large towers and decorative arcading
Example: Maria laach abbey

Gothic
Year:12-16th Century
Origin: France
Character: Pointed Arch, ribbed vault and flying buttress
Example: Chatres Cathedral

Renaissance
Year: 15-17th Century
Origin: Florence
Character: Symmetry, proportion, geometry.Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes,niches and aedicules
Example:St. Peter Basillica

Baroque
Year:16th Century
Origin: Rome
Character: new explorations of form, light and shadow and dramatic intensity.pear-shaped domes, large-scale ceiling frescoes, Fragmentary or deliberately incomplete architectural elements and in churches, broader naves and sometimes given oval forms.
Example: St. Nicholas