Picture Recognition Flashcards

Papal Urban Projects from the combined power and money of 7 pilgrimage churches
The churches include the four patriarchal basilicas:
St. Peter’s Basilica
Basilica of St. John Lateran
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
Santa Maria Maggiore
They also include three minor basilicas:
San Lorenzo fuori le mura
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore

Aqua Appia
312 BC, Rome
1st aqueduct

Agora, Athens, 480-380
Most ‘civilized’ city
Birthplace of Democracy
Public space

Egypt - Akhetaten IV, Tel el Amarna
New Kingdom 1352 BC
Egypt

Alhambra Palace and Fortress
Founded 889, rebuilt mid-11th century, made a royal palace in 1333
Nasrid Dynasty
Granada, Spain (al-Andalus)
Moorish

Egypt - Amenhotep III ‘Temple of a high official’
New Kingdom 1400 BC Egypt
Irrigation in straight lines dictating rectolinear form
Plants functional and provide perfumes, oils, fruit, food

Aqua Augusta
31 BC
Pompeii
Roman
by Augustus

Greece - Athens
Birth on acropolis 2800 BC
Heydey = 480 - 380 BC
Greece
Long walls around athens to coast

Athens Acropolis
Enter on left, view building on the side (the sexiest way to view architecture)

Mughal Emperor (and founder) Babur (1483-1530) supervising the installation of his garden.

Balkawara Palace
Samarra, Iraq
849 AD
A prototype hunting garden - a place where wild animals brought for Royals to shoot. Rigorous symmetry along pool.

Baths of Agrippa
25 BC (earliest bath)
Rome on axis with Pantheon
by Marcus Agrippa
*** Aqua Virgo supplies water, is the only remaining aqueduct to survive Goth armies***

Baths of Diocletian
3rd-4th century AD
by Diocletian
Rome

Belvedere, Vatican, Rome - Donato Bramante, architect, precedent/prototype: Temple of Fortuna, Preaneste
1503 - 1513 Pope Julius II (patron)

Boboli Gardens, Florence, 1550
Villa Urbana; Walled garden on the OtraArno. Horses Procession (reversal of movement) splitting + rejoining and comming down a hill - Garden designed to acomodate formal ceremonies + cavalcade of horses

Cahokia Mounds, IL 600-1400AD, Pre-Contact New World
“Woodhenge” - 48 posts marked the position of the sun throughout the year
“Monk’s Mound” - a cosmic mountain - meant to be walked up and over
central ceremonial space

(Capitoline Hill) in Rome. Pope Paul III, Patron. Michelangelo. 1536
exemplifies renaissance ideals, geometry, sight lines to vatican, first use of the perspective

Chaharbagh in a Persian Garden carpet. 17th century
Canopus, Hadrian’s Villa
118-138 AD, near Tivoli

Chauvet Cave, Paleolithic,
30,000BC

Chauvet Cave, Rhone Valley
30,000 BC Paleolithic

Cloaca Maxima
7th century BC
Velabrum/Forum Valley, Rome

Cloister Garth - Medieval monastic garden planted at the heart of the monastery. Meant for walking around in quiet contemplation, prayer. Usually planted with maintained turf (green symbol of rebirth and everlasting life) or an occasional symbolic pine or juniper and always water in the form of a fountain or washing place.
Pictured: Cloister of Salisbury

Court of the Myrtles
Alhambra Palace
Nasrid Dynasty (1232-1492)
Granada, Spain (al-Andalus)

























































































