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History of Architecture-Test 3
History of Architecture
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
12/10/2011

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Term
Half-Timber
Definition
building has exposed wood framing, spaces between filled with plaster, brick, or stone
Term

Bible for the Poor

(Biblia Pauperum)

Definition

Milan Cathedral

Bible scenes depicted on the outside for the poor to understand, most people were illiterate

Term
Rose Window
Definition

often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery

 

Think Notre Dame

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Tracery
Definition
s the stonework elements that support the glass in a Gothic window
Term

Pointed Arch 

(Gothic Arch)

Definition
basically just a pointed arch commonly found in gothic architecture
Term
Ribbed Vault
Definition

The intersection of two or three barrel vaultsproduces a rib vault orribbed vault when they are edged with anarmature of piped masonry often carved in decorative patterns; 


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Term
Porch
Definition
Term
Tympanum
Definition
an architectural element located within the arch or pedimen
Term
North Porch
Definition
Local Religious Figures
Term
South Porch
Definition
Virgin Mary
Term
Central Porch
Definition
Christ
Term
Stereotomy
Definition

stone cutting


Craft of cutting and dressing complicated blocks of masonry such as those for an arch, vault, or spiral staircase.

 

 

Term
Lux/Lumen/Illumination
Definition
amount of light illuminating an area
Term

City of God

(Civitas Dei)

Definition
Term

Abbey Cluny

Where: Cluny, France

Year: 1095 C.E

Architect: Unknown

Definition
[image]
Term

St. Denis

Where: Paris, France

Year: 1144 CE

Architect: Abbey Suger

Definition
[image]
Term

Chartres Cathedral

Where: Chartes, France

Year: 12 C.

Architect: Unknown

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Salisbury Cathedral

Where: Salisbury, England

Year: 1220-1258 CE

Definition
[image]
Term

Villard de Honnecourt

 

Definition
artist, mason, carpenter
Term
Loggia
Definition
often a galleryor corridor at ground level, sometimes higher, on the facade of a building and open to the air on one side, where it is supported by columns or pierced openings in the wall
Term
Lantern
Definition
in architecture, originally an openwork timber construction placed on top of abuilding to admit light and allow smoke to escape.
Term
Vitruvian Man
Definition

Leonardo DaVinci

The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described[4] by the ancient Roman architectVitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura. Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among theClassical orders of architecture

Term
Linear Perspective
Definition
the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
Term

Fortuna

(Fortune/chance)

Definition
Term

Hospital of Innocents

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1419-1427 CE

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

Definition
[image]
Term

Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1296-1434

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

Definition
[image]
Term

Tempietto, in the courtyard of St. Peter's in Montorio

Where:Rome, Italy

Year: 1500 C.E

Architect: Donato Bramante

Definition
[image]
Term

Tempio Malatestiano

Where: Rimini, Italy

Year: 1450 cE

architect: Leon Battista Alberti

Definition
[image]
Term

Title: On the Art of Building

Author: Leon Battista Alberti

Year: 1443-1452

Definition
Term

Title: The Prince

Author: Machiavelli

Year: written 1513 

pubished 1532

Definition
Term

Title: Timaeus

Author: Plato

Year: 4th century BC

Definition
Term
Invention of Printing Press (1440)
Definition

Johannes Gutenberg

helped spread ideas

increase literacy

 

guttenberg bible-spread religion

Term
Trompe-l'oeil (trump loy)
Definition
Term
stereotomy
Definition
 Craft of cutting and dressing complicated blocks of masonry such as those for an arch, vault, or spiral staircase.
Term

Teatro Olimpico (olympic Theatre)

Where: Vicenza, Italy

Year: 1580-1585

Architect: Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi

Definition
[image]
Term

Tuleries Palace and Garden

Where: Paris, France

Year: 1564

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme and Bernard Palissy

Definition
[image]
Term

Chateau d'Anet 

Where: Dreux, France

Year: 1552-1559

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme

Definition
[image]
Term

Title: pnerotomachia Poliphili

Venice, 1499

 

Definition
Main Characters : Poliphilo and Polia
Term
Palazzo
Definition
A large splendid residence or public building, such as a palace or museum
Term
Piazza
Definition
an open square especially in an Italian town
Term
Monstra
Definition
Term
Parterre
Definition

parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern


aka garden of versailles

Term
Grotto
Definition
 any type of natural or artificial cavethat is associated with modern, historic or prehistoric use by human
Term
Automata
Definition

is a self-operating machine


would be like a fountain back then

Term
7 hills of Rome
Definition

Capitoline

Quirinal

Viminal

Esquiline

Celian

Aventine

Palatine

Term
4 Papal Basilicas of Rome
Definition

St. Peter

Santa Maria Maggiore

St. Paul outside the Walls

St. John Lateran

Term
Tiber River
Definition
 third-longest riverin Italy,
Term
Pope Sixtus V
Definition
Term
Borgo
Definition
a rioni, or district of Rome near Vatican
Term

Map of Rome

Year: 1551 CE

Architect: Leonardo Bufalini

Definition
[image]
Term

Fontana d ell'Acqua Felice

Where: Rome, Italy

Year: 1585-1588

Architect: Domenico Fontana

Definition
[image]
Term

Piazza del Popolo

Where: Rome, Italy

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Castel Sant'Angelo

Where: Rome, Italy

Definition
[image]
Term

Santa Maria Maggiore

Rome, Italy

Definition
[image]
Term

Boboli Gardens

where: Florence, Italy

Year: 16 C.

Definition
[image]
Term

Gardens of the Villa Lante

Viterbo, Italy

16 century CE

Definition
[image]
Term
Mannerism
Definition
 period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissancearound 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroquestyle began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe.[1] Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals and restrainednaturalism associated with artists such as Leonardo da VinciRaphael, and early Michelangelo. Mannerism is notable for its intellectual sophistication as well as its artificial (as opposed to naturalistic) qualities.
Term
Pediment
Definition
classical architectural element consisting of the triangular section found above the horizontal structure (entablature), typically supported by columns.
Term
Giant Order
Definition

 is anorder whosecolumns orpilasters span two (or more) stories. At the same time, smaller orders may feature in arcades or window and door framings within the storeys that are embraced by the giant order.


ex: basilica sant'andrea

Term
Console
Definition
scroll
Term
Anamorphosis
Definition

a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. 


ex orthographic projectioin...kinda

Term
Monad
Definition
Term
Galileo Galilei
Definition
Idea: book of nature is written in number
Term
Rene Descartes
Definition
Mind/spirit, body and world
Term

St. Peter's Basilica

Rome, Italy

Dome

Definition
Michelangelo and Giacomo della Porta
Term

St. Peter's Basilica

Rome, Italy

Facade

Definition
Carlo Moderno
Term

St. Peter's Basilica

Rome, Italy

Piazza with colonnade and interior baldachinno

Definition
Gian Lorenzo Berini
Term

Laurentian Library

Where: Florence, Italy

Year : 1525 CE

ARchitect: Michelangelo

Definition
[image]
Term

Piazza del Campidoglio

Where: Rome, Italy

Year: 1538-1650

Architect: Michelangelo

Definition
[image]
Term

Santana Sindone

Turin, Italy

1667-1690

Guarnino Guarini

Definition
[image]
Term

St. Andrea al Quirinale

Rome, Italy

1658-70 CE

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Definition
[image]
Term

Church of St. John Nepomuk

Zelena Hora, Czech Republic

1720-22

Santini Aichel

Definition
[image]
Term

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

1638-1650

Francesco Boromini

Definition
[image]
Term

Karlskirche (Church of St. Charles)

Vienne, Austria

1716-1737

JB Fisher von Erlach and GW Leibniz

Definition
[image]
Term

Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns

(questions about authority of past and ideas of progress)

Definition

Ancients: Nicholas Boileau and Francois Blondel

Moderns: Claude and Charlers Perrault, Fontenelle

Term

Book: Ordinance of the Five Kinds of Columns

1683

Claude Perrault

Definition

Right mean

Rejects Optical Correction

Positive Beauty

Arbitrary Beauty

Term

Palace and Gardens of Versailles

France

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Eastern Facade of Louvre

1667-72

Paris, France

Claude Perrault

Definition
[image]
Term
Positive Beauty
Definition

natural

self-evident

visible

connected to bilateral symmetry

richness of materials

precision of execution

Term
Arbitrary beauty
Definition

historical

fashion

tradition

custom

Term

Hospital of Innocents

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1419-1427 CE

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

Definition
[image]
Term

Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1296-1434

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

Definition
[image]
Term

Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore

Where: Florence, Italy

Year: 1296-1434

Architect: Filippo Brunelleschi

Definition
[image]
Term

Tempio Malatestiano

Where: Rimini, Italy

Year: 1450 cE

architect: Leon Battista Alberti

Definition
[image]
Term

Teatro Olimpico (olympic Theatre)

Where: Vicenza, Italy

Year: 1580-1585

Architect: Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi

Definition
[image]
Term

Teatro Olimpico (olympic Theatre)

Where: Vicenza, Italy

Year: 1580-1585

Architect: Andrea Palladio and Vincenzo Scamozzi

Definition
[image]
Term

Tuleries Palace and Garden

Where: Paris, France

Year: 1564

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme and Bernard Palissy

Definition
[image]
Term

Chateau d'Anet 

Where: Dreux, France

Year: 1552-1559

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme

Definition
[image]
Term

Chateau d'Anet 

Where: Dreux, France

Year: 1552-1559

Architect: Philibert de l'Orme

Definition
[image]
Term

Santa Maria Maggiore

Rome, Italy

Definition
[image]
Term

Gardens of the Villa Lante

Viterbo, Italy

16 century CE

Definition
[image]
Term

Laurentian Library

Where: Florence, Italy

Year : 1525 CE

ARchitect: Michelangelo

Definition
[image]
Term

Laurentian Library

Where: Florence, Italy

Year : 1525 CE

ARchitect: Michelangelo

Definition
[image]
Term

Piazza del Campidoglio

Where: Rome, Italy

Year: 1538-1650

Architect: Michelangelo

Definition
[image]
Term

Santana Sindone

Turin, Italy

1667-1690

Guarnino Guarini

Definition
[image]
Term

St. Andrea al Quirinale

Rome, Italy

1658-70 CE

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Definition
[image]
Term

Church of St. John Nepomuk

Zelena Hora, Czech Republic

1720-22

Santini Aichel

Definition
[image]
Term

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome, Italy

1638-1650

Francesco Boromini

Definition
[image]
Term

Karlskirche (Church of St. Charles)

Vienne, Austria

1716-1737

JB Fisher von Erlach and GW Leibniz

Definition
[image]
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