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Quiz 4 Flashcards

1
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Renaissance period

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revival of classical greek and roman styles

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Renaissance countries

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France, England, Italy (monarchies)

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Italy

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trade hub between east and west, lead to urban revival

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4
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Key themes

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geometry, symmetry and proportion

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5
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Renaissance architects

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“ideal” simple circles and squares

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Humanism

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celebrate rationality and the human ability to
make and act upon empirical observations

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Vitruvian Man

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Found in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci, describes humans to be perfect geometric figures to prove that human
proportions reflected divine ratios

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Florence Italy

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Renaissance period begins here

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Filippo Brunelleschi

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Italian architect, goldsmith and sculptor

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Linear Perspective

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Developed by Filippo
Brunelleschi, it is the system of
creating an illusion of depth on a
flat surface

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Fillipo Brunelleschi year alive year dead

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1377-1446

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Florence Cathedral

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Cathedral dome, Blend of Romanesque and Gothic elements

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Church of S. Lorenzo

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Brunelleschi’s modular regularity and planning
(standardized dimensions and ratios)

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14
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Pazzi Chapel

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Recreation of Brunelleschi’s dome

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S. Maria degli Angeli, Florence

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First circular and centralized plan (“pure”)

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Palazzo Medici

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Designed by Brunelleschi’s student Michelozzo Bartolomeo

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17
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Modillions

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Support bracket/block along the roof cornice

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18
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Rustication

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type of decorative masonry achieved by cutting back the edges of stones to a plane surface while leaving the central portion of the face either rough or projecting markedly

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Pilaster

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A column-like projection used to give the appearance of a supporting
column, but is only an ornamental function instead

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The Palazzo Rucellai

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Designed by Leon Battista Alberti

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S. Andrea, Mantua

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Based upon the Basilica (cross shape) of
Constantine

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22
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High Renaissance

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Buildings generally borrowed from Roman architectural styles

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Artist and engineer in the high
Renaissance period, Sketched anatomical
drawings

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24
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S. Maria della Consolazione

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Church is square in plan

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Donato Bramante

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architect who introduced the High Renaissance style in architecture.

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26
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The Belvedere Court

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A summer residence designed by Bramante, located to the north of St. Peter’s

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27
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House of Raphael, “Palazzo
Caprini”

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Design based on Roman Insula, with
shops on street level

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28
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other name for late renaissance architects

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mannerists

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Late renaissance architects

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achieve personal artistic
expression through imaginative and individualistic manipulation of the
classical language/style

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30
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CORTILE

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an enclosed area, typically roofless and arcaded, within or attached to a building.

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The Campidoglio, Rome

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Monumetal civic complex designed by Michelangelo to reestablish the seat of the local government.

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Andrea Palladio

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Published “The Four Books of Architecture”

33
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Where did early renaissance originate?

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Italy

34
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What type of ideology was the early renaissance?

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Humanist

35
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the early renaissance was based on what architectural tools?

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proportions and geometry.

36
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Villa d’Este Tivoli, Rome, Italy

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Garden creates its own microclimate

37
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time of french renaissance

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end of 15th century

38
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Court

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dominant force of the French
society and the king initiated all art

39
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Dormer (think mimis house)

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the thing that is a window that sticks out on a roof

40
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Villa Barbaro

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Symmetrical design: Central living block
balanced by end pavilions connected by
flanking arcades

41
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Palladio’s Venice

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Gothicism overlaid with Renaissance ideas

42
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Baroque

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artistic style that developed to restate traditional Catholic teachings

43
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Pope Sixtus V’s

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Created a design program that modified the urban pattern of Rome

44
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Piazza of St. Peters

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the contribution of
Sixtus V in his attempt
to shape the space in
front of the basilica

45
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Gianlorenzo Bernini

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the official architect
of St. Peter’s

46
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Two parts of Piazza

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Oval section and Trapezoidal section

47
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S. Andrea al Quirinale

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Small, oval-plan church designed by Bernini

48
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S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

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Designed by
Francesco Borromini

49
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Piazza Navona

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Public square in the heart of
Rome built on an ancient Roman
stadium of Domitian site

50
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Along the __________ axis, starting from the
entrance of the chapel, the light
disappears by degrees into the dark
sanctuary

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horizontal

51
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along the ______ axis the light
is successively increased by degrees as
it goes up: from the small chapels in
shadows, to the bright main space, and
finally to the translucent domes.

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vertical

52
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S. Ivo della Sapienza

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Chapel built behind the curved
end of an existing courtyard

53
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S. Ivo della Sapienza roof

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Mirrors the six-pointed
star plan

54
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S. Ivo della Sapienza Plan

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formation of a hexagon by intersecting
two equilateral triangles (six-pointed star)

55
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The Cappella della SS.
Sindone

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Centrally planned church

56
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The Cappella della SS. Sindone dome

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Dome is not actually a dome,
but an ascending hexagonal
network of arches

57
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Wall-pillar Style

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Barrel-vaulted lateral chapels are separated from one another by cross walls with pilasters, facing the nave

58
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The Great Abbey of Melk,
Austria

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A wall pillar church with galleries
above the oval chapel

59
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The Town of Versailles

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adjacent to the palace
to house servants, soldiers and
other minor courtiers

Axiality

extended
symmetrically by building two long
wings on each side

60
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Christopher Wren

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Part of the team of architects
responsible for rebuilding
London post the fire of 1666

61
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Rococo

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Originated in Paris and as opposed to the baroque style it intended to be informal
and asymmetric in form

62
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Enlightenment

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A philosophical movement in the 18th and 19th centuries focused on
rationalism accompanied by scientific thinking

63
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Romanticism and Picturesque

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Delight in the asymmetrical and irregular, Rejection of order, harmony, balance

64
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The Rococo

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Delicate and intricate, but substantial
ornamentation

65
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Post Neo-Palladianism

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The resurgence of Palladian architecture in the 1700s and 1800s

66
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Williams–Wynn House, London

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A variety of spatial enclosures
on a long, narrow site

67
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Inventive Neo-Classicism

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Neo-Classicism and its response to industrialization

68
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Cenotaph

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A scientific apparatus/setup designed for Sir Isaac Newton to discover the laws of classical mechanics

69
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Chaux

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Conceptualized by Ledoux, plans of ideal city, oval of workers houses, Buildings for salt
manufacturing

70
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Hotel de Thelluson, Paris

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Massive rectangular, triumphal-arched
gateway, which was more horizontal than the
Roman prototypes

71
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Thomas Jefferson

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One of the
most prominent and celebrated
Neo-Classical architects in the
United States

72
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Jefferson Residence, Monticello, VA

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An architectural laboratory
that continued to evolve until
Jefferson’s death

73
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

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Early site plan by Jefferson:
U-shaped distribution of student
rooms, linked by colonnades and
punctuated by larger pavilions

74
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Edmunde Burke: A Philosophical inquiry

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The beautiful, the sublime and the picturesque

75
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The Beautiful

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Created aesthetic experiences aimed
to please the end user

76
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The Sublime

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An inexplicable feeling that
makes us feel quite small in front
of the vast expanse of nature

77
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The Picturesque

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  • Rough, sudden, old/ruined
  • Asymmetry and irregularity

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