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1
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The open meeting space or marketplace in an ancient Greek city.

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Agora

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This is the most ornate order with a slender fluted column. It has an ornate capital decorated with two rows of leaves and 4 scrolls.

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Corinthian Order

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Is the capital and the largest city of Greece. One of the older inhabited cities in the world. It has been continuously inhabited for over 7000 years. It is the site of the Parthenon.

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Athens

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They were a banking family, political dynast, and royal house. They built the Medici Palazzo in Florence Italy and it was meant to look huge and intimidating.

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Medicis

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Lead a lot of building projects as pope. Also was the one that said Catherine was able to marry Henry VIII after being married to his brother. Lived from 1443 to 1513

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Pope Julius II

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San Andrea

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Gizah Cheops Pyramids

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An Arabic word for table, signifying the ancient Egyptian flat-topped, rectangular tombs with sloping sides

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Mastaba

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Piazza del Popolo

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French Garden

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New St Peters

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6
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A row of columns

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Colonnade

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A ceremonial canopy of stone, metal, or fabric, typically over an altar throne or doorway.

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Baldachin

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Seven Pilgrimage churches in Rome

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A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other, or in file.

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Enfilade

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Open pavilion used as a meeting place to protect people from the sun or rain.

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Sala

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The type of garden that is very neat and ordered, with small fountains that don’t contain very much pressure. The plants were usually symmetrical and laid out on regular lines.

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French Garden

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11
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Period from 1775 into the 20th century

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Gothic Revival.

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Notre Dame

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Medici Chapel by Michelangelo

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Vaux le Vicomte

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Third Earl of Burlington, He brought Palladian architecture to British and Irish people. Lived from 1694 to 1753

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Lord Burlington

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Foundling Hospital

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Villa foscari by Palladio

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Period from 1525 to 1775

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Mannerism

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17
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House in Italian

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Casa

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A very plain design column, with plain shaft, and a simple capital.

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Tuscan Order

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A room with a roof supported by many columns usually in rows.

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Hypostyle Hall

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20
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A covered entranceway or porch with columns on one or more sides, or a continuous arcade.

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Portico

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Villa Rotonda by Palladio

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Caryatids

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21
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St Pauls

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22
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The simplest of the orders, short, faceted heavy columns, with plain round capitals.

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Doric Order

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22
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L’Enfant

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23
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Ruler of Olympians at Mt Olympus. God of sky and thunder.

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Zeus

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A granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree from King Ptolemy V. It was in three different languages, Egyptian, Demotic, and Greek.

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Rosetta Stone

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24
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Had Versailles, which was originally built as a hunting lodge, expanded. He kept his royal court there to prevent them from revolting against him. Lived from 1638 to 1715

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Louis XIV

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A series of arches on columns or piers, either freestanding or attached to a wall. A covered walk lined with shops and offices

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Arcade

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27
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San Lorenz Plans

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29
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Large room in palace or public building reserved for royalty and their staff to use.

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State rooms

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30
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A reception room in a large house.

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Salon

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31
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The reaction of the Catholic Roman church to the Reformation

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Counter Reformation

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31
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Syon House

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32
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Big figure in the Protestant Reformation. Lived from 1483 to 1546

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Martin Luter

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32
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Transformed Rome from medieval to baroque. Lived from 1521 to 1590

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Pope Sixtus V

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32
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Castle Howard

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33
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Trevi Fountain

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35
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A 16th century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant churches

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Reformation

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35
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Queen’s House by Inigo Jones

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36
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Period from 1600 to 1725

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Baroque

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36
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Gothic Cathedral section.

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36
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New St Peters

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36
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Piazza Vaticano

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37
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Delphi Layout

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39
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A tall, square shaft, usually of one piece of stone, tapering upward and ending in a pyramidal tip. Placed in front of important churches along the pilgrimage route.

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Obelisk

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41
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The monumental truncated pyramidal towers flanking an entrance to ancient Egyptian temples.

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Pylon

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42
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French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. Started Empire Style. It emphasized opulence. Lived from 1769 to 1821

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Napoleon

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43
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An Italian public square.

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Piazza

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45
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The transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 and sometime between 1820 to 1840

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Industrial Revolution

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47
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A country house used as a getaway for urban elites and usually the seat of a working farm.

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Villa

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47
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Pazzi Chapel

48
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Parthenon Elgin Marbles in London

49
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A vast ancient burial ground in Egypt. It served as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital of memphis.

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Saqqara

51
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A ditch with its wall on its inner side below the ground level forming a boundary to a park or garden with out interrupting the view.

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Ha-ha

51
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The chief magistrate of Venice or Genoa

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Doge

52
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Is another word for oracle

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Sybil

53
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Shallow, vertical, concave grooves cut into a column shaft or pilaster.

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Fluting

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Delphi Oracle

55
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Large hall

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Saloon

55
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Banqueting House by Inigo Jones

57
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Separated England from the Catholic church. Destroyed catholic churches, and or converted them. Lived from 1491 - 1547

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King Henry VIII

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Ca D’Oro

59
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Spanish Steps

61
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The fortified institutional section of a Greek city. It contained the chief temples.

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Acropolis

62
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Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, and civilization.

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Athena

63
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The slight convex bulge given to a column to offset the optical illusion that it is thinner in the middle.

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Entasis

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Louis XIV

65
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A wall painting made on wet plaster with water based colors.

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Fresco

66
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King of the fourth dynasty of ancient Egypt. Lived from 2589 to 2566 BC

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Cheops

67
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The region in central Italy, with a capital of Florence

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Tuscany

69
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Egyptian God, local deity of Thebes.

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Amon-Re

70
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Period during 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

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New Classic Revivals

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San Andrea by Alberti

72
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Noble Tuscan family. There were also a banking family. They built the Palazzo Pazzi. They used Brunelleschi to design the palazzo.

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Pazzis

73
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Gothic Cathedral plan.

75
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Slender fluted pillars, with a large base and two opposed scrolls in the capital.

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Ionic Order

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St Peters Dome Model by Michelangelo

78
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A roofed porch or gallery with an open arcade or colonnade.

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Loggia

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Baldachino in St Peters

80
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A long roofed portico with columns along the front an da wall at the back, used for public life in ancient Greece.

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Stoa

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Florence Duomo

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Kenwood

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Parthenon in Athens

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Piazza Navona

86
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The site of the Temple of Apollo where the oracle provided her services.

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Delphi

87
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The ancient Greece city where the olympics took place every four years. It was a sanctuary in Ancient Greece, on the Peloponnese Peninsula.

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Olympia

88
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The type of garden that is below a water source and has a lot of fountains, very grand.

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Italian garden

89
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Campidoglio

90
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A young girl (virgin) who ate hallucinogens and created fumes coming from the ground to get into a trance and give advice. At Apollo’s temple in Delphi

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Oracle

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Karnak

93
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Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt. Ruled from 1332 to 1323 BC

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Tutankhamen or King Tut

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Saqqara Zoser’s stepped pyramid

96
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A suite of rooms forming one residence in a large building containing a number of these

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Apartment

97
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A column embedded in the wall, and partly projecting from the face of the wall.

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Engaged Column

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Greenwich

98
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The late medieval/Renaissance residence of a wealthy Italian family, built as a large block with an interior courtyard and sometimes an enclosed garden.

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Palazzo

99
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Period from 1725 to 1775

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Rococo

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Escorial

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San Carlino

103
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A summer or country house in Italy

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Casino

104
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A garden that was meant to look natural like a grassy park or something of the sorts.

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English (Picturesque) Garden

105
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Large french country house or castle.

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Chateau

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San Carlino

108
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Laurentian Vestibule

109
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Period from 9th to 12th centuries

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Romanesque

110
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Designed the layout of the streets in Washington DC Lived from 1754 to 1825

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Piere Charles L’Enfant

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Monticello

111
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A shallow flattened rectangular column or pier attached to a wall and often modeled on an order.

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Pilaster

113
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St Paul’s Covent Garden by Inigo Jones

114
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A small private room close to the state room

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Cabinet

115
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King of the third dynasty of ancient Egypt. He created the step pyramid in saqqara. Lived around 2670 BC

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Zoser

117
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A bell tower, usually free standing

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Campanile / Belfry

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University of Virginia

120
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Uffizi Gallery

121
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The main floor of an Italian palace, usually one story above the ground floor.

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Piano Nobile

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Milan Duomo

123
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An anteroom to a large hall.

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Vestibule

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Blenheim

126
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Barn, where the animals were kept at the villa.

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Barchessa

127
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Blenheim Garden

128
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The comparative measurements or size of different parts of a whole

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Proportion

129
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Rucellai Palace

130
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Period from 1150 to 1450

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Gothic

131
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The is a cross shaped like an X

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St Andrew’s Cross

132
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Palazzo del Te by Giulio Romano

133
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Visual illusion in art, used to trick the eye into believing a painted object to be three dimensional

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Trompe l’oiel

135
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One of the twenty regions of Italy, the region’s capital is Venice

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Veneto

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Parthenon

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Chiswick

138
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A mixed order combining the Volutes of the ionic with the leaves of the Corinthian order.

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Composite Order

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Tempietto by Bermante

141
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The main channel of water that snakes through Venice

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Grand Canal

142
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A winged monster of Thebes having a women’s head and a lion’s body.

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Sphinx

144
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The ground floor of a Villa

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Parterre

145
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Sistine Chapel Frescos By Michelangelo

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Propylaea

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San Andrea by Bernini

148
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Versailles

149
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He started democracy in Greece, and used to gather votes to build the Parthenon. It cost the equivalent as 400 war ships. Lived from 495 BC to 429 BC

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Pericles

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Piazza St Ignazio

151
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Period from 1425 to 1600

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Renaissance

152
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Villa d’Este Itallian Gardens

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