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| the first architectural theorist to discover and write that there was not a fixed set of proportions in the Classical orders |
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| Under what monarch was engineering first separated from architecture? |
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| the first scientist to investigate the structural properties of materials |
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| 3 requirements the Council of Trent established for Counter-Reformation art |
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1. Clarity
2. Realistic interpretation
3. Emotional stimulus to piety |
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| the start of the Counter-Reformation |
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| Is Baroque architecture classical? |
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| it is classical in style but not in ideas/concepts |
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| the founder of English empiricism |
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| "I think, therefore I am" is a quote from |
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| the best example of Louis XIV architectural style prior to Versailles |
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| the east front of the Louvre |
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| Was the architecture of Louis XIV Baroque? |
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| 2 kinds of beauty Perrault made a case for in the Ordonnance of 1683 |
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1. Positive beauty: proportions, objective beauty, harmony, always beautiful
2. Arbitrary beauty: subjective, styles change |
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| the first school founded for the formal education of civil engineers was located in |
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