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Bartolomeo Ammanati - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Gian Lorenzo Bernini De re aedificatoria - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Alberti's architectural theory text I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Andrea Palladio's architectural theory text Boccaccio - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Author of the Decameron Petrarch - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Italian poet of the Early Renaissance Protagoras - CORRECT ANSWER ✅"man is the measure of all things" Scala Regia - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Bernini's papal stairway at the Vatican Andrea Palladio - CORRECT ANSWER ✅16th century architect from Vicenza
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Campidoglio - CORRECT ANSWER ✅the Capitol in Rome Tempietto - CORRECT ANSWER ✅commissioned by Ferdinand & Isabella "crow's foot" - CORRECT ANSWER ✅planning device used in Baroque landscapes Gian Lorenzo Bernini - CORRECT ANSWER ✅architect of the Piazza at St. Peter's, Rome "Fountain of the Four Rivers"_ - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Bernini's sculptural comment on Borromini Francesco Borromini - CORRECT ANSWER ✅architect of San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane Florence - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The Renaissance began in
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goldsmithing and other applied/decorative art - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Previous occupation of Filippo Brunelleschi theater (stage set design and costuming) - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Previous occupation of Inigo Jones fine art, i.e. painting and/or sculpture - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Previous occupation of Michelangelo High Renaissance - CORRECT ANSWER ✅__________ was a short‐lived phase of the Italian Renaissance during the early 1500s. the substitution of a Copernican cosmos for a Ptolemaic one - CORRECT ANSWER ✅What changes in science and theology helped to account for the new High Renaissance era? The Palazzo Chiericatti - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The Queen's House at Greenwich, England, draws is exterior organization from Alberti - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Who defined beauty as "the harmony and concord of all the parts achieved by well‐founded rules and
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resulting in a unity such that nothing could be added or taken away or altered except for the worse Misshapen, irregular - CORRECT ANSWER ✅What is the general meaning of the word "baroque" The Reformation - CORRECT ANSWER ✅What accounts for the relative conservatism of the Renaissance/Baroque style in England? Doric, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite - CORRECT ANSWER ✅What are the five Greek/Roman orders? Humanism - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The architecture of the Renaissance was based on what philosophical idea Models - CORRECT ANSWER ✅. Rather than drawings, __________ were used for their lasting durability to communicate construction information to builders False - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Columns of the Medieval period matched the styles of ancient Rome and Greece more closely than they did those of the Renaissance? T/F
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True - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Michelozzo expressed buildings as a distinction of parts based on their function and importance on each floor? T/F first - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The "piano nobile" occurs on which floor of a "European" building True - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Palazzos of the Early and High Renaissance periods are centered to maximize views in all directions. T/F True - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Architectural styles can be interpreted as a biological metaphor of time. T/F True - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The mannerist phase of renaissance architecture was about breaking the rules. T/F True - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Alberti was among the first architects to publish works on architectural theory. T/F
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an upright architectural member that is rectangular in plan and is structurally a pier but architecturally treated as a column - CORRECT ANSWER ✅What is a pilaster alter - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Traditionally the________________ is at the east end of a liturgically oriented church entry - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Traditionally the________________ is at the west end of a liturgically oriented church False - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The High Renaissance was concerned with the correct use of the traditional Greek and Roman Orders? T/F New St. peters - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Which Bramante structure is the purest example of a point‐generated structure True - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Bramante's treatment of the corner column was a visual improvement over earlier corner treatments? T/F Circus of Nero - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Old St. Peters was built on the site of _____________________?
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Bartolomeo Ammanati - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Pallazo Pitti extensions and alterations Gian Lorenzo Bernini - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Sant'Andrea al Quirinale Franceso Borromini - CORRECT ANSWER ✅San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl Burlington - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Chiswick House Frank Furness - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Thomas Jefferson - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Monticello, Charlottesville, VA Inigo Jones - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Queen's House at Greenwich LeCorbusier - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Villa Stein at Vaucrasson/Garche Michelangelo - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Laurentian Library
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Robert Venturi - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Fire Station # Borromini and Bernini - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The Piazza Navona in Rome exemplifies the competition between two of the Baroque's most competitive architects. Prince Charles - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Who has been a strong, often outspoken advocate for the reintroduction of classically‐based Renaissance‐ inspired design in contemporary architecture? Michelangelo - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Which of the following architects do we most strongly identify with the use of optical illusions and visual distortions to deceive the viewer? Baptistry at Florence Cathedral - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The "Doors of Paradise" were added to which of the following buildings Reformation - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The new Baroque style becomes an important tool for what theological movement?
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Capitol - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Top of column Transept - CORRECT ANSWER ✅where arms of church intersect Longitudinal plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅structure with rectangular design; nave is longer than transept Golden section - CORRECT ANSWER ✅uses the golden ratio; uses proportions Gable roof - CORRECT ANSWER ✅roof with two sloping sides and a gable at each end Pediment - CORRECT ANSWER ✅triangular upper part of the front of a building typically surmounting a portico of columns Sacristy - CORRECT ANSWER ✅room in a church where a priest prepares for services
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Palladian motif - CORRECT ANSWER ✅3 openings- central arch and two rectangles on sides Narthex - CORRECT ANSWER ✅usually near entry (like an entry room) open porch Chancel - CORRECT ANSWER ✅near alter, reserved for clergy and choir Basilicas section - CORRECT ANSWER ✅long building; circular apse
