British Renaissance

Question 1

Characteristics of Tudor Architecture

Answer 1

1. Excessive use of half-timber work
2. Large groups of rectangular windows
3. Rich oriels (bay windows)
4. Complex roofs with lots of gables
5. Extravagant chimney treatments
6. Brickwork in patterns
7. Richly wood-panelled walls
8. Use of lots of modeled plasterwork
9. Often imitating renaissance concepts

Question 2

Horizontal emphasis and regularity on the lower partitions. Regularity, symmetry and mixed classical and Mannerist elements.

Answer 2

Elizabethian Period

Question 3

first Renaissance-style Architecture in England.

Answer 3

Hampton Court

Question 4

Architect of Hamption Court

Answer 4

Cardinal Wosley

Question 5

Earliest example of the English Interpretation of the Renaissance style.

Answer 5

Hardwick Hall

Question 6

Blended Medieval and Renaissance styles characteristic of formal structures. Transition from Elizabethian to pure Renaissance.

Answer 6

Jacobean Peiod

Question 7

Example of Jacobean Period Architecture

Answer 7

Hatfield House

Question 8

Architect of Hatfield House

Answer 8

Robert Cecil

Question 9

It is divided into two phases and this period was influenced by both Italian and French Renaissance.

Answer 9

Stuart Period

Question 10

Architect influenced by Italian Renaissance.

Answer 10

Inigo Jones

Question 11

Architect influenced by French Renaissance

Answer 11

Christopher Wren

Question 12

Example of the second phase Stuart Period

Answer 12

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Question 13

The type of building which most Georgian Period was defined. It is the solution for the density of settlement in towns meant that there was a need to pack a lot of houses into a small space.

Answer 13

Terraces