10. Picturesque

Question 1

The founder of the English Garden movement is usually considered to be _____.

Answer 1

Kent

Question 2

List two aspects of the English picturesque garden that were early breaks with Classicism:

Answer 2

a. asymmetry glass

b. iron architecture (greenhouses)

Question 3

Name two of England’s early picturesque Landscape Architects and a technique/detail for which they were famous:

Answer 3

a. Bridgeman - kept original symmetry of garden but added own symmetry through winding paths
b. Kent - set up narrative/sequence for follies, choreographed your movement

Question 4

What is ha-ha?

Answer 4

negative fence, trench, no walls, allows for clear view of horizon

Question 5

What was the nickname of Landscape architect Lancelot Brown? Why did he have this name?

Answer 5

“Capability”, would tell every client their estate had great capabilities, used flattery to get the job

Question 6

What was the nationalist reason for Great Britain to assume Gothic over Neoclassical Architecture in the first half of the 19th century?

Answer 6

originated in Europe unlike classical, that to be “real” English architecture before the invasion

Question 7

Two ideas that became associated with the first period of the Gothic Revival in England were:

Answer 7

a. melancholy

b. medievalism

Question 8

The ____________ was the principle building type that launched the first or picturesque phase of the Gothic Revival. List two good example of this phase of Gothic Revival.

Answer 8

Manor/Estate House

a. Strawberry Hill
b. Fontill Abbey

Question 9

List the two most important Gothic Revival buildings constructed prior to 1812:

Answer 9

a. Strawberry Hill

b. Fontill Abbey