Italy Flashcards
(27 cards)
Small or mid-sized ships
Barco
Overly decorative style of art and design
Baroque
A summerhouse or open-sided gallery, usually at the rooftop level, commanding a fine view
Belvedere
A topographic name for someone living or workkng in a wood (grove)
Bosco
A small waterfall, typically one of several that fall in stages down a steep rocky slope
Cascade
Countryside, a prairie or series of open fields
Campagna
A small, round stone of a kind formerly used to cover road surfaces
Cobblestone
A central courtyard in a building, flanked by arcades
Cortile
A small capping domelet built atop a garden house, or similar structure
Cupola
An ornament or elegant cap at the top of a fence slat or post
Finial
Secret garden
Giardino segreto
A squared stone pillar with a carved head on top
Herm
Philosophical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings
Humanism
Green house where orange trees are grown
Orangery
A palatial building, especially in Italy
Palazzo
A formally laid our planter, often a box at ground level, but sometimes raised by means of masonry or wood borders
Parterre
Residential houses and gardens of the formative period
Philosopher’s garden
Country estate with farm house
Podere
A humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature and learning
Renaissance
Elaborately ornamental late baroque style of art, decoration or architecture
Rococo
Range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, square-block-masonry surfaces
Rustication
Sacred grove
Sacro bosco
Form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color
Sgraffito
Unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware, used chiefly as an ornamental building material and in modeling
Terra-cotta
