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Brown Bauhaus HOA 2 Flashcards

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The phase of change in Western European Renaissance architecture (1750-1830) renewed inspiration was sought from Ancient Greek and Roman and from medieval architecture

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Neoclassical

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Ceremonial entrances to Chinese temples or tombs, or occasionally spanning a street with 1-5 arched openings, derived from the Indian torana

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Pailou

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The Arts and Crafts Movement originated in England (c. 1860) is actually a reaction of what historical event?

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Industrial Revolution

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The wealthiest family in Renaissance Italy and gradually assumed supreme authority in the state. It was the greatest patron of art in that time aside by the Church. Its house was founded in 1524 and extinct in 1737.

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Medici

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An artificial canal for conveying water from one point to another, and often to a considerable distance from the source. Often discharged into reservoirs. It works through water from a spring in the hills, collected in a reservoir to build up pressure and ensure a steady supply to the city.

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Aqueducts

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He formulated the canons of proportions that standardized all the Orders and added the Tuscan and Composite orders.

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Marcus Vitruvius Polio

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Buddhist stupas are built to house what objects?

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Relics

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The so-called air shaft from the Great Pyramid’s King’s Chamber which is due south is directed to what stellar constellation?

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Orion’s Belt

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The capital city of the Incas dedicated to the sun-god and has numerous examples of superb masonry construction

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Machu Pichu

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The Maranao royal house which is ancestral house of the datu and his family

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Torogan

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Donato Bramante was the first commissioned architect for the St. Peter in Rome and it was planned in a

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Greek cross

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An underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place

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Crypt

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The activity, spirit, or time of the humanistic revival of classical art, literature, and learning originating in Italy in the 14C and extending in the 17C, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world

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Renaissance

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Where did the Gothic style originate?

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France

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The placing of one order of column above another, usually with the more elaborate orders at the top

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Supercolumniation

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A swelling or curving outwards along the outline of a column shaft, designed to counteract the optical illusion which gives a shaft the appearance of curving inwards. Much used by the ancient Greeks.

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Entasis

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Any of several arches like members supporting a vault at the groins, defining its distinct surfaces or dividing these surfaces into panels

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Rib

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Angle-Saxon architecture is the early Romanesque architecture before the Norman Conquest in 1066 of what country?

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England

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The final phase of Gothic architecture from the late 14C through the middle of the 16C, characterized by a flame-like tracery, intricacy of detailing, and frequent complication of interior space

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Flamboyant Style

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The “Sun King”; the King of France (1643-1715) and a great patron of art esp. in the later Renaissance. The Louvre and Versailles were monuments of his lavish expenditure on architecture and the decorative arts.

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Louis XIV

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In early Christian architecture, what Roman building became the model for its churches?

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Basilica

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What is the favorite molding of the Spanish Romanesque?

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Rope

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“Architecture of Small Stones” is the character of what style?

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Rococo

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A method of forming stonework with roughened surfaces and recessed joints, principally employed in Renaissance buildings and mostly exclusive for the wealthy during that time

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Rustication

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The triangular curved overhanging surface by means of which a circular dome is supported over a square or polygonal compartment

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Pendentives

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Ornamented timber roofs are one of the glories of the Gothic style in what country?

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England

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The triangular or segmental space enclosed by a pediment or arch

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Tympanum

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The principal story of a large building, as a palace or villa with formal reception and dining rooms usually one flight above the ground floor

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Piano Noble

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A screen often elaborately adorned and properly surmounted by a crucifix, separating the chancel or choir from the nave of a medieval church

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Rood Screen

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A stylized three-petaled Iris flower tied by an encircling band used as the heraldic bearing of the royal family of France

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Fleur-de-lis

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A decorative representation of a string or garland, flowers, foliage, ribbon, or the like, suspended in a curve between two points

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Festoon

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A broken pediment having an outline formed by pair of S-curves tangent to the horizontal cornice at the ends of the pediment and rising to a pair of scrolls on either side of the center, where a final often rises between the scrolls

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Swan’s Neck

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A style of architecture which took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state. It is characterized by architectural concerns for color, light and shade, sculptural values and intensity.

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Baroque

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The Religious order was founded by S. Ignatius Loyola in 1540. It combat the effects of the Reformation, it built many preaching churches and it was not only a religious enthusiasts but also a building confraternity.

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Jesuits

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The crossed finial formed by the projecting barge boards at each end of the ridge of a Shinto shrine

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Chigi

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The only surviving book on architecture believed to be written in the ancient Roman era. Although obscurely written in 10 volumes, it became a major reference for Renaissance architects.

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De Architectura

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An indigenous Scandinavian church of the 12C and 13C, having a timber frame, plank walls, a tiered steeply pitched roof windows

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Stave Church

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A relatively small, usually foliated ornament terminating the peak of a spire or pinnacle

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Finial

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A decorative row of arches applied to a wall as a decorative element esp. in Romanesque buildings

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Blind Arcades

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An inclined bar of masonry carried on a segmental arch and transmitting an outward and downward thrust from a roof or vault to a solid buttress that through its mass transforms the thrust into a vertial one

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Flying Buttress

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A projecting ornament, usually in the form of curved foliage used esp. in Gothic architecture to decorate the outer angles of pinnacles, spires, and gables

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Crocket

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A window or doorway in the form of a round-headed archway flanked on either side by narrower compartments, the side compartments being capped with entablatures on which the arch of the central compartment rests

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Palladian Window

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A sacred enclosure or precinct surrounding a temple

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Temenos

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A monumental, freestanding gateway on the approach to a Shinto shrine, consisting of two pillars connected at the top by a horizontal crosspiece and a lintel above it usually curving upward

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Torii

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The mother of Mesoamerica’s civilization and the most mystifying

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Olmecs

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A monolithic stone monument whose four sides, which generally carry inscriptions, gently taper into a pyramidion at the top

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Obelisk

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An upright stone slab or pillar with a carved or inscribed surface, used as a monument or marker, or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building

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Stele

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A Greek building that contains painted pictures

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Pinacotheca

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Describing prehistoric masonry made of huge stoneblocks laid without mortar

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Cyclopean

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A stone built subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a circular chamber covered by a corbelled dome and entered by a walled passage through a hillside

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Beehive Tomb

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