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Final Study Guide Review 2
Egypt-Roccoco -- Places/Literature
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Architecture
Undergraduate 1
03/13/2012

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Abbey Church at Cluny
Definition

The largest church built in Europe prior to 1500;Gothic

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Academie of Architecture
Definition

King Louis XIV; French Baroque/Neo-Classical

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Altar of Pergamon
Definition

Greek

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Arch of Titus
Definition

Rome

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Baths of Caracalla
Definition

Rome

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Basilica of Maxentius/Constantine
Definition

Byzantine

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Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve
Definition

Science/History

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Brighton Pavilion
Definition

Iron/Glass

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Carceri
Definition

Giovanni Piranesi; Science/History

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Circus Maximus
Definition

Rome

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Coalbrookdale Bridge
Definition

Iron/Glass

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Colossus of Rhodes
Definition

Greek

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Conservatory at Kew Gardens
Definition

Science/History

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Crystal Palace
Definition

Iron and Glass

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Domus Aurea
Definition

Rome

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East Front of the Louvre
Definition

Perrault; Baroque

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Essai sur l'architecture
Definition
Science/History; Marc Antoine Laugier; his thoughts on several other topics, ranging from solidity, the different orders, and how to construct different buildings
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Flavian Amphitheater
Definition

Rome

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Florence Baptistry
Definition

Ghiberti(doors)/Brunelleschi(dome); Renaissance

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Fonthill Abbey
Definition

James Wyatt; Gothic Revival

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Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardens
Definition
Humphry Repton; drew on material and techniques used in the Red Books (before and after views); Science/History
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Les Grand Halles
Definition

Iron and Glass

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Great Conservatory, Chatsworth
Definition

Iron and Glass

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Great Pyramids at Giza
Definition

Egypt

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Hospital of the Innocents
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Hagia Sophia
Definition

Byzantine

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Definition

Ancient Wonder of the World

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Jardin d'Hiver
Definition

Hector Horeau; Iron and Glass

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Library of Alexandria
Definition

Hellenistic

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Maison Carree, Nimes
Definition

Rome 

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Mausoleum at Halicarness
Definition

Greek; One of the Seven Wonders of the World

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Notre Dome
Definition
Gothic[image]
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Old St. Peter's
Definition

Baroque

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Ordonnance for the Five Orders of Columns
Definition
Perrault;not a fixed set of proportions in the Classical Orders; Baroque
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Palace of Versailles
Definition
French Baroque; Louis XIV[image]
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Palatine Chapel
Definition
Romanesque[image]
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Pantheon
Definition

Rome

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Parthenon
Definition

Rome 

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"Pharos" Lighthouse, Alexandria
Definition

Greek

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Pont du Gard
Definition

Rome

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Remarks on Hot Houses
Definition
Iron and Glass; John Claudious Loudon; potential of iron
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Rules of Perspective
Definition
Renaissance; Leone Battista Alberti
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S. Maria del Flore (Florence Cathedral)
Definition

Ghiberti (doors)/ Brunelleschi (dome); Renaissance

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St. Denis
Definition

First Gothic Church

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St. Paul's Cathedral
Definition

Reformation; Christopher Wren

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St. Peter's Basilica
Definition

Renaissance

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Ste. Genevieve
Definition

Pantheon in Paris; Science/History

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San Vitale
Definition

Ravenna (Capital of Western Empire); central church, point of interest, beardless Jesus, lace-like ornament

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Strawberry Hill
Definition

Gothic Revival; Science/History; Walepole

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Temple Complex at Karnak
Definition

Egypt

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Temple of Artemis, Ephesus
Definition

Egypt

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Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Definition

Rome

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Temple of Zeus, Olympia
Definition

Greek; 6 columns

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Ten Books of Architecture
Definition
Vivtruvius; commodity, firmness, delight
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Theatre at Epidaurus
Definition

Greek

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Two New Sciences
Definition
Galileo; physics
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Trajan's Column
Definition

Rome

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Valley Temple, Kharfe
Definition
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