Midterm I Flashcards
Etienne-Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton, 1784
A few of the sculptures from the Parthenon’s pediments known as the Elgin Marbles. Dating from 447 432 BC.
First Bank of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Bank was completed in 1799. It is known as the first Greek Revival building in the United States
An early rendering of the Virginia State Capitol and La Maison Carrée , 16 BC, Nimes, France. One of the most well preserved Roman temples in the world.
The Virginia State Capitol today, Richmond. The central building was designed by Thomas Jefferson, 1786.
The Griswold House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1864. Richard Morris Hunt, Architect.
Altes Museum, Berlin, 1830, Karl Friedrich Schinkel
The Great London Exhibition, known the world over as ‘The Crystal Palace’
designed by Joseph Paxton
Mr. Joseph Paxton, farmer’s son
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House,
the first Gothic Revival house
The ‘Gallery’ at Strawberry Hill
Sir John Soane, Architect. His original sketch for the 1794 Tyringham Gatehouse.
Sir John Soane’s Neoclassical
Bank of England, London, 1788 - 1834.
Interior, Bank of England, Sir John Soane, 1788 - 1833. Rendering by Joseph Michael
Gandy.
The White House, Neoclassical
Biedermeier furniture. Exceptional simplicity and classicism.
All Saints Church, William Butterfield
The interior of Butterfield’s All
Saints Church, London. 1859.
The new Houses of Parliament, Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1836. Gothic Revival.
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Detail of Pugin’s Big Ben, Gothic Revival
The Church at St. Giles, Cheadle, by Pugin
Interior of the Church at St. Giles, Cheadle
From Downing’s and Davis’
collaborative book, The Architecture of Country Houses
Rotch Cottage, New Bedford, Massachusetts, by Alexander Jackson Davis
Augustine Deodat Taylor, the inventor of
balloon framing, 1833.
Sainte Genevieve Library in Paris, by Henri
Labrouste, 1838 - 1850
The interior of the upper floor of the Sainte Genevieve Library.
The cast iron dome of the United States Capitol.
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, 1815-1821, by John Nash
The cast iron domes of the Brighton Pavilion
Sarah Losh, Architect: 1785-1853
St. Mary’s Church at Wreay by Sarah Losh,
1842.
Owen Jones wrote many books on pattern and decoration. His most famous is The Grammar of Ornament
The interior of the Crystal Palace Exhibition Hall. Owen Jones was responsible for all the paint and coloration.
The Love Song by Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones, 1868
What books is John Ruskin most famous for writing?
The Stones of Venice, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The British Museum, 1831, designed by Sir Robert Smirke. The museum was built specifically for the Elgin Marbles.
Harrison Street, New York, Federal Style Rowhouses ca. 1795
The Federal Style furniture of Samuel
McIntire, Salem, Massachusetts, ca 1800 -1810.
Fonthill Abbey, 1813.
