Architecture

Question 1

What are the three orders?

Answer 1

Doric
Ionic
Corinthian

Question 2

What are the features of a Doric order

Answer 2

Strong and plain

Question 3

What are the features of the ionic order

Answer 3

More refined than Doric

Question 4

What are the features of the Corinthian order

Answer 4

Elegant, complex and expensive

Question 5

What the top step on a Roman temple called

Answer 5

The stylobate

Question 6

Why do you use bronze in sculptures

Answer 6

More freedom as they originally modelled by wax. Unlike stone , bronze enables extended Limbs as of it high tensile strength. High polished surface which emphasises the light, visual impact, subject. ( and the fluid lines of the figure). Finally it gives off a precious status due to the expense of the material.

Question 7

Why produce a bronze sculptor

Answer 7

High tensile strength allows open composition with protuding limbs. Features some of its original techniques : plaster and day. The modelling creates a smoother shape for its limbs. It can be exhibited outside as the bronze is tough and durable.
The monumentality is emphasised by the patina an mass (scale)of the figure.

Question 8

Why choose gilding on bronze

Answer 8

Unified scene.
Low relief.
Light and shadows enhanced.

Question 9

What does contrapposto

Answer 9

All weight on one leg

Question 10

Why use white marble on sculptures

Answer 10

Unifies figures. Associated with: nobility , heroism and status.
Relatively Soft to carve allowing detail.
Undercutting creates: greater dramatic intensity

Question 11

Why marble is no good

Answer 11

Low tensile strength can cause damage to the sculptor. Closed composition.
When miltiple blocks are used, some cracks appear on the joints.

Question 12

What does harmonious relationship mean

Answer 12

Clearly distinct parts

Question 13

What’s the tools for the reductive process

Answer 13

Subbia
Gradina
Scalpello
Rasps

Question 14

What’s the subbia

Answer 14

A pointed chisel or punch

Question 15

What’s the gradina

Answer 15

A chisel with multiple teeth ( toothed chisel or claw )

Question 16

What’s the scapello

Answer 16

A flat chisel

Question 17

What’s the rasp

Answer 17

Smooths the final pure over

Question 18

What does FFC stand for

Answer 18

Formal features
Function
Context

Question 19

How many orders does the coliseum have

Answer 19

4

Question 20

What is fresco

Answer 20

Paint directly onto plaster which is on the wall.

Question 21

What is a relief sculptor

Answer 21

Sculptor Created against a flat background.

Question 22

Why are figures overlapped in a relief sculpture

Answer 22

Create Sense of recession

Question 23

Why would you put fold of drapery or clothing in a relief sculptor

Answer 23

Create forms of the bodies underneath

Question 24

How is latte created in a relief sculptor

Answer 24

Face, hair , beards…

Question 25

How many orders does the coliseum have

Answer 25

4

Question 26

What is fresco

Answer 26

Paint directly onto plaster which is on the wall.

Question 27

What is a relief sculptor

Answer 27

Sculptor Created against a flat background.

Question 28

Why are figures overlapped in a relief sculpture

Answer 28

Create Sense of recession

Question 29

Why would you put fold of drapery or clothing in a relief sculptor

Answer 29

Create forms of the bodies underneath

Question 30

How is latte created in a relief sculptor

Answer 30

Face, hair , beards...

Question 31

What do three dimensional carvings of horses heads add to relief sculptor ?

Answer 31

Realism

Question 32

How do relief sculptor get a for elegance and refinement

Answer 32

Smooth, highly polished surfaces

Question 33

What's a barrel vault

Answer 33

Roman arch

Question 34

What's a groin vault

Answer 34

Development of a Roman arch into an X shape

Question 35

What's the nave

Answer 35

The central longitudinal space of a basilicas church

Question 36

What's the ambulatory in a church

Answer 36

A semicircular or polygonal aisle.

Question 37

What's the crossing in a church

Answer 37

Area of a church where the nave and choir and transept intersect

Question 38

What the portal in a church

Answer 38

Any doorway or entrance but especially one that I large and imposing

Question 39

What's the trim Ray figure in a church

Answer 39

Statue decorating a trumeau often a religious human personage

Question 40

What's the Intel in a church

Answer 40

A flat horizontal beam which spars the space between two supports

Question 41

What's the jamb in a church

Answer 41

A vertical element of a doorway or window frame

Question 42

What's a jamb figure in a church

Answer 42

Statues that are carved in a Windows or doorways

Question 43

What's the archivolt

Answer 43

Bands or moulding, surrounding an Archie opening

Question 44

What's the tympanum in a church

Answer 44

The basically semicircular area enclosed by an arch above the lintel of an arched entranceway.

Question 45

What the lintel in a church

Answer 45

Long horrizontal beam

Question 46

What's the rib- forms

Answer 46

Part of the frame work on which a vault rests.

Question 47

What's the fan vault

Answer 47

The mise decorated type of arch

Question 48

Features of Romanesque style

Answer 48

Darker, thicker piers walls, round arches , barrel vault, not as tall as gothic

Question 49

Features of the gothic style

Answer 49

``` Brighter, Thinner walls, Pointed arches ( the flying buttresses ) , ground vault ceiling celebrates the glory of God ```

Question 50

What's the mullion

Answer 50

The vertical element that separates the lancets of a window

Question 51

What's the spire

Answer 51

A elongated ,pointed structure which rises from a tower , turret or roof.

Question 52

What's the pinnacle

Answer 52

A pointed termination of a spire buttress or other extremity of a building.

Question 53

What does elongated mean

Answer 53

Out of proportion , stretched

Question 54

What medium is tempera

Answer 54

Egg yolk

Question 55

What's a florin

Answer 55

Gold coin

Question 56

What's the primary colours

Answer 56

Red | Yellow and blue

Question 57

What's the secondary colours

Answer 57

Orange ,green and purple

Question 58

Complementary colours

Answer 58

Yellow to purple Orange to blue Red to green

Question 59

What's impasto brush work

Answer 59

Pasted or thick brushwork

Question 60

What's stripped brushwork

Answer 60

Pointillist / dotty techniques

Question 61

What the constructive technique

Answer 61

Blocks of colours

Question 62

What's flat wash

Answer 62

Water colour

Question 63

What's spontaneous brushwork

Answer 63

Fluid... To possibly convey an emotion

Question 64

Why use a palette knife

Answer 64

Give geometric shapes and patterns

Question 65

What analogous in the colour wheel

Answer 65

Colours that are touching in the colour wheel

Question 66

What are van goths emotions to colours

Answer 66

``` Red is aggressive Yellow is excited Green is relaxed Light blue is pleased Dark blue is subdued Purple is unhappy ```

Question 67

What medieval or international gothic art

Answer 67

Country paintings across Europe from 14th to mid 15th century's

Question 68

What was the colour for heavon in the medieval times

Answer 68

Gold

Question 69

What's the polytch on an alter piece

Answer 69

Panel at the top

Question 70

What's the triptych on an alter piece

Answer 70

Large main altar in three pieces

Question 71

What were the medical pigments

Answer 71

``` Lead white Green earth Ultramarine Organic - red lake Imperative paint ```