Neo Classical Flashcards

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‘It is very odd that this one came to an end so suddenly. With more sober and ponderous ?????? Now assuming political power, Europe returned to a more sober and ponderous classical architecture.

A

Empires

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The deciding factor in the break with the Baroque was a new enthusiasm that found expression in the fashionable taste of the time. It was ??? and ???? that the new fashionable taste was first expressed.

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England and Scotland

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The English and the Scots used the work of which classical Italian Renaissance architect as a model for their buildings? The Chiswick house by Lord Burlington and William Kent is an example.

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Andrea Palladio

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The new elegance was not confined to countryhouses… No later version, not even Robert Adams planning of Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, as a unified palace front, is quite high as dramatic as the streets of the woods created in ??????

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Bath

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That was the method whereby the entire landscape, as far as they could see, became part of the state: he replaced fences dividing gardens from surrounding pasture land by some conductor is called ????

A

Ha-has

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6
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Which of the garden plans below is French?

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B

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From 1661, Andre le Notre was working for Louis XIV to build and enhance the gardens of ??????

A

Versailles

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8
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In which city is this famous Neo-classical museum?

A

Berlin

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9
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Where is the ‘Temple of Love’ (depicted)

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?????? Need to read chapter

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10
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Who was the architect of the Berlin Altes Museum?

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

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‘Schinkel’s two best-known buildings, the ???? And the Altes Museum in Berlin, are both in faultless Greek idiom.’

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The Schauspielhaus

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