Landscape Vocabulary

Question 1

Cocinnitas

Answer 1

a state of a building that everything is in such a harmony with itself that it will only be for the worse if you add or take something.

Question 2

Rus in urbe

Answer 2

country in the city, ideal of urban planning in which landscape was employed to soften and relief the oppressive hardness of pavements and buildings.

Question 3

Trivio

Answer 3

a place where three streets met.

Question 4

Maestri di strada

Answer 4

equivalent to modern planning commissioners

Question 5

Palisades

Answer 5

space defining tall hedges

Question 6

Parterre de broderie

Answer 6

an embroidery-like design of decorative scrolls, palmettes, arabesques in herbs, boxwood clipped grass.

Question 7

Caput mundi

Answer 7

the centre of the world

Question 8

Parkways

Answer 8

connecting the loosely woven fabric greenery between city dwellers - generously scaled new urban parks filled with rural scenery.

Question 9

The casino

Answer 9

summerhouse, built as a retreat from the bustle and ceremony of court life.

Question 10

Topia

Answer 10

landscape paintings of the sacro-idyllic landscapes that decorated ancient roman villa walls.

Question 11

Belvedere

Answer 11

A beautiful view. Association with a particular type of garden structure. Individual tower or the villa itself for example.

Question 12

Grottoes

Answer 12

the homes of river gods and nymphs.

Question 13

Bosco

Answer 13

is een dichte bos zoals bij villa lante. het omringde woud waar je eerst doorheen moet voordat je tot cultivering kunt komen.

Question 14

Earth works

Answer 14

environmental remedy - stars, sun and moon and with different levels of perceiving.

Question 15

Zichtlijnen

Answer 15

perspectief illusies opwekken. Zicht houden over eigendom. Zicht geeft extra eigenschap aan de woning. illusie van de zich in het oneindige voortzetten van de ruimte.

Question 16

Spiegel-as

Answer 16

veroorzaakt tweezijdig perspectief. Inlijving van de horizon. Als verankering van de politieke macht. Chateaux en stad met elkaar verbinden.

Question 17

locus amoenus

Answer 17

an earthly paradise

Question 18

Helio caminus

Answer 18

a small heated sun room, where even on a winterday you can sunbathe.

Question 19

Villa maritima

Answer 19

a seaside villa, a popular pleasure resort for wealthy romans.

Question 20

Villa suburbana

Answer 20

a villa located in the outskirts of the city.

Question 21

Giardano segreto

Answer 21

a secluded and enclosed garden room, a place of intimate contact with nature within a larger Renaissance garden.

Question 22

Hortus conclusus

Answer 22

walled garden

Question 23

Villa urbana

Answer 23

a villa rustica build in city style architecture

Question 24

Cariatide

Answer 24

Pilaren in de vorm van vrouwen die de last van de wereld dragen.

Question 25

Nymphaeum

Answer 25

a grotto inhabited by sculptural representations of nymphs.

Question 26

Canopus

Answer 26

a long partially colonnaded canal terminated by a large hooded entrance hall. A dramatic banqueting setting.

Question 27

Fontanieri

Answer 27

virtuous hydraulic engineers with an understanding of metaphysics as well as physics and reputation akin of that of magicians.

Question 28

Patte d’oie

Answer 28

Goose foot. A three-pronged set of radial avenues.

Question 29

Stibadium

Answer 29

semicircular dining couch with water flowing beneath it.

Question 30

Villa rustica

Answer 30

earliest villa form. a place of plenty and peace. using the virtues of agrarian life.

Question 31

Barco

Answer 31

a park for hunting

Question 32

Giocchie d’aqua

Answer 32

water-games

Question 33

Otium

Answer 33

mental and physical leisure. away from urban business, politics and society (holiday).

Question 34

Faubourgs

Answer 34

Suburban settlements, outside of the big flourishing cities directly at the gates. Taxes could be avoided here.

Question 35

Latifundia

Answer 35

large rural establishments

Question 36

Triclinium

Answer 36

formal dining place mostly outside in a roman design

Question 37

Cardo

Answer 37

an axis with parallel axes next to it.

Question 38

Decumanus

Answer 38

an axis perpendicular to the cardo with parallel axis next to it.

Question 39

Barchesse

Answer 39

an utilitarian farm building

Question 40

Diaeta

Answer 40

living-room

Question 41

Fermee ornee

Answer 41

farm as landscape. ornamenting ordinary farmland with monuments that evoked sensations, heightened the interest and stimulate emotions.

Question 42

Hypnerotomachia poliphili

Answer 42

an expressive companion of vocabulary of garden design idioms. Maths, myths, geometry and allegory were now firmly joined.

Question 43

De tuin

Answer 43

de tuin staat/stond voor geszondheid, welvaart, zedelijkheid en familiezin, tot wering van drankzucht, armoede en werkeloosheid.

Question 44

Medieval garden

Answer 44

voornamelijk functioneel gebruikt voor voedsel en medicijnen

Question 45

Broderie

Answer 45

A very curly decorative pattern within a parterre, created with trimmed yew or boxwood or made by cutting a pattern.

Question 46

Parterre

Answer 46

planting bed, usually square or rectangular, containing an ornamental design made with low closely clipped hedges, colored gravel.

Question 47

Orangerie

Answer 47

glasstuinbouw, oorspronkelijk voor oranjebomen, met hoge ramen voor zonnelicht.