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History of Interior Design
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Undergraduate 1
05/06/2009

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Anamorphosis
Definition
Painting technique that simulates niches or openings in ceiling that appear to reveal the sky
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Strapwork
Definition
Bands of relief suggest leather straps
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Lantern
Definition
Caps the dome and oculus
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Chiaroscuro
Definition
Strong light and shade contrast
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Quattrocento
Definition
First period of Italian renaissance adapting the features of classical antiquity
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Rondel
Definition
Round windows
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Trompe L'oeil
Definition
A painting technique that creates a trick of the eye with the illusion of perspective
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Cour d'Honneur
Definition
Open central courtyard with a grand, arched or gated doorway for carriage passage
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Savonnerie
Definition
Knotted wool/silk carpet
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Quoins
Definition
Decorative corner stones of brick or stone
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Humanism
Definition
The importance of the individual
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Pilasters
Definition
Non structural , embedded columns flanking doors and windows
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Coffer
Definition
Sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault
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Plasticity
Definition
Concave-convex interplay of architectural relationships creating a dynamic rhytem
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Aubusson
Definition
Woven wool/silk carpets
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Mansard
Definition
Hip roof with two slopes on each of it's four sides with lower slope being much steeper
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Corps de logis
Definition
Three wing plan characteristic of palace architecture
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Rustication
Definition
Textured ashlar masonry
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Piano Noble
Definition
First or second floor reached by an outer staircase
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Loggia
Definition
walkway or hallway characteristic of Palladian Villas
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Dolmens
Definition
Unpright stone slabs used to create walls during the stone age
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Corbelled
Definition
Roof structures inside the galleries and passages of the megalitic tombs where constructed of successive, circular courses of stone that projected inward, narrowing the circumference.
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Megaron
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The Mycenaean "great hall" featuring a symmetrical rectangular plan with vestibule fronted by an open, two-columned porch
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Entasis
Definition
The "refinement" or slight curvature for visual correction characteristic in greek temples
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Alignments
Definition
Celestial ______ significantly influenced the unique designs of new grange and stonehenge.
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