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| List the two most important Gothic Revival buildings constructed prior to 1812: |
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| Strawberry Hill – Walpole. And Fonthill Abbey, James Wyatt |
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| The founder of the English Garden movement is usually considered to be |
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| List two aspects of the English picturesque garden that were early breaks with Classicism |
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-irregular, asymetrical design
-natural landscape (less manmade)
-had politics and culture incorporated
-man and nature equal (interest to learn from
-nature and return to nature; tabula rasa)
-informal clumps of trees
-negative wall ha-ha
-meandering winding lanes
-follies |
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| What was the nationalist reason for Great Britain to assume Gothic over Neoclassical Architecture in the first half of the 19th century? |
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Great Britiain was different from Europe >> protestant
Religious
Idea of association (John Locke: a work of art should be judged not just by proportions but on the sensations conjured by viewing it :: intuition)
a new value to measure architecture
Association with ideas:: art’s capacity to reinforce/introduce thoughts and impressions |
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| 2 ideas that became associated with the first period of the Gothic Revival in England were |
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Melancholy (psychological romantic interest in sublime and death)
Medieval (chivalry, knights and castles) |
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| The castles was the principle building type that launched the first or picturesque phase of the Gothic Revival. List two good examples of this phase of Gothic Revival: |
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| List two aspects of the English Picturesque landscape tradition: |
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ruins (triumph of time)
nature = time
Man = manmade things that decay over time and become ruins |
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| It has been said the Batty Langley’s Gothic Architecture improved was his attempt to write the equivalent of _______ for Gothic Architecture |
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