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Means rebirth of classical art, symmetry, proportion, geometry

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Renaissance

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Common features of Renaissance architecture

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Twisted columns (Solomonical)
Pediment - broken, open, swan necked
Huge wavy scrolls
Statues in acute contortions
Fresco Paintings

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Big rooms inside palazzo

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Salone

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Aside from circle and square plans, which church cross variant also symbolizes perfection, as it is used for structures associated with miracles, martyrdom and plague deliverance.

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Greek cross plan

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The Florence Dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi is found in a cathedral in Florence, Italy. It is attributed to spark commencement of Italian Renaissance architectural style. What is the long name of the Florence Cathedral?

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Santa Maria del Fiore

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What do you call a closet in French Renaissance chateaus?

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Garderobe

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What finish of masonry is employed to the walls to signify Renaissance architectural character, especially applied to basement and ground floor walls?

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Ashlar masonry

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Suburban dwellings or lodges

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Villa

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This is the grandest Spanish Renaissance cathedral where the tombs of Ferdinand and Isabel can be found as its crypt.

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Granada cathedral

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How many bronze doors are there at the main portal of Florence Cathedral?

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Three

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Large urban dwellings

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Palazzo

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Common shape of arches used in Renaissance architecture

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Semi circular

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Which French Renaissance palace was built by Architect Philbert de L’more for the French ruler until destructed in 1871?

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Palais des Tuileries

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This French Renaissance palace intended for the kings became a museum later on with a glass pyramid at its courtyard designed by Ioeh Ming Pei.

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Palais du Louvre

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Who designed the Tempietto?

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Donato Bramante

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Who was commissioned by James I to introduce Palladian Architecture to England?

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Inigo Jones

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A technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid (“wet”) lime plaster

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Fresco

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18
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Who designed the Villa Rotonda?

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Andrea Palladio

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Who designed the Palazzo Farnese

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Antonio da Sangallo the younger

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This small temple marks the traditional spot of St. Peter’s Martyrdom

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Tempietto

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The composite church plan is commonly used during the Renaissance for processional functions, monasteries and cathedrals. Which church cross variant is specified for these functions?

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Latin cross plan

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Common features of Renaissance Architecture

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Twisted columns (Solomonical)
Pediment - broken, open, swan
necked
● Huge wavy scrolls
● Statues in acute contortions
● Fresco Paintings

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Used frequently both as a large structure and as means of roofing smaller spaces

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Domes

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24
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Domes are usually on a

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Drum

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External walls are highly finished

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Ashlar masonry

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Internal walls are smoothly

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Plastered and surfaced with white chalk paint

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Planning of churches was influenced by

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Symbolism
Liturgical change
Reforming movements
New religious orders

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Centralized plans like circle, square and greek-cross plan symbolize perfection. It was used for structures associated with

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Miracles, martyrdom and plague deliverance

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Large urban dwellings

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Palazzo

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30
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Salone: Big; Camera: _____

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Small

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agricultural center, hunting lodge or suburban retreat

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Villa

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Style of Italian Renaissance art and architecture developed during the 15 century characterized by the development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and in building, by the free and inventive use of classical details

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Early Renaissance

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Designed by Arnolfo di Cambio and completed by Filippo Brunelleschi

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Florence Cathedral

34
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Who completed the lantern in the Florence Cathedral

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Michelozzo Michelozzi

35
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Notable for the precision of its proportions

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San Lorenzo Ruiz by Filippo Brunelleschi

36
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New sacristy, housing Medici tombs is by

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Michaelangelo Buonarotti

37
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Designed by Lorenzo Battista Alberti. Façade is based from the scheme of Arch of Titus; The nave of the interior is roofed by barrel vault

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San Andrea Mantua

38
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Decoration of green and white marble with proportions based on exact mathematical calculations

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S. Maria Novels by Lorenzo Battista Alberti

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Rusticated masonry façade with pilasters imitating classical orders and graceful double windows on upper stories

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Palazzo Rucella by Lorenzo Battista Alberti

40
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First Florentine Renaissance palace

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Palazzo Medici Riccardi

41
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Style of Italian Renaissance art and architecture developed in late 15th and early 16th century

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High Renaissance

42
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Perfect Architectural Gem; Built inside San Pietro in Montorio and to mark the traditional spot of
St. Peter’s martyrdom

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Tempietto by Donato Bramante

43
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Pope Julius declared a competition for St. Peter’s Basilica and was won by ___ with a plan of a _____

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Donato Bramante; Greek cross plan

44
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Brough the dome to completion in 1590 (St. Peters Basilica)

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Gicaomo Della Porta and Domenico Fontana

45
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The grandest palace of its period; The 56.00 meters façade is three storeys tall and thirteen bays wide

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Palazzo Farnese

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Transitional style in architecture and the arts in the late 16* century particularly in Italy, characterized in architecture by unconventional use of classical elements

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Curved façade; Entrance is characterized by a central portico with six Doric columns, paired and single

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Palazzo Massimo allle Colone

48
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It was a villa suburban, close to the
city and commingling aspects of both palace and villa architecture and function

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Palazzo Te

49
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The library is a long room with reading desks, well lit by rows of windows between pilasters which correspond to the beams of the ceiling

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Laurentian Library

50
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Also known as Villa Rotonda; Situated on the top of a hill just outside the town of Vicenza and is completely symmetrical plan with a central circular hall

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Villa Capra

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rich private residences; a characteristic building type exercising influences on domestic planning throughout Europe; for civil servants relied on by the King.

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formal receiving with
host reclining on the bed

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where special friends would be received and objects of
value are being displayed

54
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located at separate service court

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Stables and servants’ quarters

55
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___ are used for monumental or grand urban buildings

56
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____ is used for vernacular architecture

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Slate amd Clay

57
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Was built for Catherine de Medici. It is considered as the residence of French ruler until its destruction in 1871

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Palais des Tuileries by Arch. Philibert de Lorme

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It was intended to be the palace of kings, but became a museum. In 1980, loeh Ming Pei designed the glass pyramid at the courtyard

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Palais de Louvre by Pierre Lescot

59
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decorated by Le Brun; landscaping was done by Andre Lenotre. It was built for Louis XIV

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Palais de Versailles

60
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It was built for Cardinal Richelie. It is also known as Palai Royal (North Louvre)

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Church of Sorbonne

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The massive chateau Is composed of a central keep with four immense bastion towers; The chateau features 440 rooms, 365 fireplaces, and 84 staircases, four rectangular vaulted hallways on each floor form a cross-shape

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Chateau de Chambord

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Compact palace shows Italian influence in flat, unobstructive pilasters

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Chateau D’yazay le Rideau

63
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one of the largest French royal chateau

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Great palace of Fountainebleau

64
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is the best example of Renaissance palace in Spain

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Palace of Charles V, Granada by
Arch. Pedro Machuca

65
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was considered the Louvre of Spain. It was designed by Arch. Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera. It has monastery, church, college, palace with state apartments, and courtyard for staging bullfights

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San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid

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is the grandest cathedral in Spain. Tombs of Ferdinand and Isabel can be found at the church’s crypt.

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Granada Cathedral

67
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Built for Phillip II to house a palace college and monastery; Begun by Juan Bautista de Toledo and completed by Herrera

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First European building by a non - Italian in the true Renaissance spirit

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Town Hall, Antwerp

69
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Last public square surrounded by guild houses

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Chancellery

70
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Composed of superimposed pilasters and half columns

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Heidelberg Castle

71
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Shows influence of Church of Gesu in Rome

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St. Michael, Munich

72
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James I commissioned ______ to introduce Palladian Architecture to England

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Inigo Jones

73
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famous for its domestic domes

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Elizabeth Mansion

74
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First great Elizabethan mansion with symmetrical plan and elevation

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Longleat Mansion

75
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Built for Thomas Wolsey and enlarged by Henry VII built
hammer-beam roof of Great Hall

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Hampton Court Palace

76
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First English villa in an Italian style

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Queens House

77
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English version of Palladian palace

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Banqueting House

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Great English Renaissance building

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St. Pauls cathedral

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