Italy

Question 1

Small or mid-sized ships

Answer 1

Barco

Question 2

Overly decorative style of art and design

Answer 2

Baroque

Question 3

A summerhouse or open-sided gallery, usually at the rooftop level, commanding a fine view

Answer 3

Belvedere

Question 4

A topographic name for someone living or workkng in a wood (grove)

Answer 4

Bosco

Question 5

A small waterfall, typically one of several that fall in stages down a steep rocky slope

Answer 5

Cascade

Question 6

Countryside, a prairie or series of open fields

Answer 6

Campagna

Question 7

A small, round stone of a kind formerly used to cover road surfaces

Answer 7

Cobblestone

Question 8

A central courtyard in a building, flanked by arcades

Answer 8

Cortile

Question 9

A small capping domelet built atop a garden house, or similar structure

Answer 9

Cupola

Question 10

An ornament or elegant cap at the top of a fence slat or post

Answer 10

Finial

Question 11

Secret garden

Answer 11

Giardino segreto

Question 12

A squared stone pillar with a carved head on top

Answer 12

Herm

Question 13

Philosophical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings

Answer 13

Humanism

Question 14

Green house where orange trees are grown

Answer 14

Orangery

Question 15

A palatial building, especially in Italy

Answer 15

Palazzo

Question 16

A formally laid our planter, often a box at ground level, but sometimes raised by means of masonry or wood borders

Answer 16

Parterre

Question 17

Residential houses and gardens of the formative period

Answer 17

Philosopher’s garden

Question 18

Country estate with farm house

Answer 18

Podere

Question 19

A humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature and learning

Answer 19

Renaissance

Question 20

Elaborately ornamental late baroque style of art, decoration or architecture

Answer 20

Rococo

Question 21

Range of masonry techniques giving visible surfaces a finish that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, square-block-masonry surfaces

Answer 21

Rustication

Question 22

Sacred grove

Answer 22

Sacro bosco

Question 23

Form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color

Answer 23

Sgraffito

Question 24

Unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware, used chiefly as an ornamental building material and in modeling

Answer 24

Terra-cotta

Question 25

Large countryhouse of Roman times

Answer 25

Villa

Question 26

A place suitable for a holiday from the city

Answer 26

Villeggiatura

Question 27

A pleasing view, especially one seen through a long, narrow opening

Answer 27

Vista