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This type of architecture is purely based on regular order, symmetry, central axis with grandiose plans and impressive facades.

Renaissance

Early Renaissance

High Renaissance

Late Renaissance

Architectural character of Renaissance are: Symmetry, proportion, and geometry.

True

False

This is officially the Basilica di San Pietro in Vatican.

Pauline Chapel

The Dome of Florence Cathedral

St. Peter's Basilica

San Lorenzo Basilica

He completed the dome of a famous basilica in 1950.

Domenico Fontana

Carlo Maderna

His design was selected from several entries in a competition. He also proposed a Greek cross plan and a dome similar to the Pantheon in Rome.

Michelangelo Bounarotti

Donatello Bramante

A student of Bramante designed the Pauline Chapel.

Giuliano da Sangallo

Giacomo della Porta

Michelangelo Bounarotti

He lengthened nave to form Latin cross and built the gigantic façade.

Vignola

Carlo Maderna

Michelangelo Bounarotti

He proposed a Latin cross plan for St. Peter's Basilica.

Raphael Santi

Michelangelo Bounarotti

Giacomo della Porta

He added the Cathedral Petri, and the Bronze Baldaccino.

Michelangelo Bounarotti

Baldassare Peruzzi

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

He is responsible for the strengthening of the foundation of St. Peter's Basilica.

Fra Giocondo

Michelangelo Bounarotti

He added sided cupolas or side domes.

Vignola

Michelangelo Bounarotti

Antonio da Sangallo

Giacomo della Porta

He designed the cupola.

Giacomo della Porta

Michelangelo Bounarotti

Fra Giocondo

Baldassare Peruzzi

St. Peter's Basilica's most outstanding features are from his ideas. He took the project at 72 years old.

Michelangelo Bounarotti

Raphael Santi

Leonardo da Vinci

He extended the vestibule and campanile and the central dome of the basilica.

Raphael Santi

Antonio da Sangallo

Giuliano da Sangallo

The architect that reverted the cross to Greek.

Giuliano da Sangallo

Leonardo da Vinci

Baldassare Peruzzi

This is the singer's gallery or choir.

Astylar

Cantoria

Clerestory

A brown stone more suitable for the exterior.

Pieta Forte

Pietra Serena

Pieta Nobile

A blue grey stone of fine quality

Pieta Forte

Pietra Serena

Pieta Nobile

A Swag or Festoon, twisted band, garland, or chaplet representing flowers, fruits, leaves for decoration.

Wreath

Scroll

Garland

Contains volutes or spiral wind bands.

Boss

Scroll

Cortile

They are generally of highly finished ashlar masonry, laid I straight courses, the corners of buildings are often emphasized by rusticated quoins, basements and ground floors were often rusticated.

Walls

Pillars

Corners and ceilings

A process of forming a stonework with roughened surface and recessed joints .

Welding

Sculpting

Rustication

It contains several steps going up and 3 steps going down before the principal flooring of an Italian palace.

Piano Nobile

Piano Serena

Pietra

A treatment of façade without column.

Astylar

Roman Order

Quoins

A hard stone or brick used with similar ones to reinforce an external corner or edge of a wall.

Quoins

Order

Boss

A vertical stripe of a rusticated masonry.

Column

Order

Chaines

The Italian name for internal court surrounded by an arcade.

Courtile

Cortile

Cotrile

A lump or knob, projected ornament at the intersection of the ribs of a ceiling.

Column

Order

Chaines

Boss

Renaissance developed during the _____ of classical art and _____ in _____

Rise, music, Europe

Rebirth, education, Rome

Rebirth, learning, Europe

Rise, learning, Rome

Renaissance architecture is characterized by the use of the classical orders, square arches, and symmetrical proportions.

True

False

It is the period of learning designers were intent on the accurate Roman elements.

Early Renaissance

High Renaissance

Renaissance

Renaissance had its birth in _____.

Rome

Europe

Florence

Spain

It is represented by Andre Palladio.

Renaissance

Purist

Mannerist

A period where Renaissance became an individual style in its own right.

High Renaissance of Proto Baroque

Early Renaissance

Renaissance

Baroque

More confidence was used in expressing vocabulary.

High Renaissance of Proto Baroque , represented by Michelangelo

High Renaissance of Proto Baroque, represented by Michelangelo Bounarotti

Mannerists used architectural elements in a free, decorative, and illogical way, unsanctioned by antique precedent.

True

False

Renaissance, where practices which had no Roman precedent were interspersed with the usual buildings, or entire buildings were conceived in a non-Roman way.

True

False

Walls of large, dressed masonry blocks gave buildings an imposing sense of dignity and horizontality.

True

False

During Renaissance period, silhouettes were clean and simple, with flat roofs.

True

False

Renaissance emphasized _____.

Horizontality

Verticality

Roman features

Ornamentation

Renaissance ornamentation was based on pagan or classical mythological subjects.

True

False

_____ refers to Spanish Baroque.

Churiguerresque

Churrigueresque

Churrigeuresque

Chuerrigueresque

Baroque saw architecture, painting, sculpture, and the minor arts being used in harmony to produce the unified whole.

True

False

During the Baroque period, the true nature of Renaissance as a distinctive style began to emerge.

True

False

This is a style which is primarily French in origin.

Baroque

Rococo

During this period, architects worked with freedom knowledge.

Baroque

Rococo

This period characterizes: rock-like forms, fantastic scrolls, and crimped shells, profuse, often semi-abstract ornamentation, and light in color and weight.

Rococo

Baroque

Renaissance

He standardized Renaissance's architectural features. (Check the box)

Palladio

Vignola

Scamozzi

Chambers.

Renaissance period reintroduced the 5 Classical Orders of Architecture.

True

False

Which of the following is Renaissance's architectural features:

Use of rusticated masonry

Parapets are usually with balusters.

Dome on a drum

He is the author of "The Five Orders of Architecture.”

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Donato Bramante

Brunelleschi

Andrea Palladio is the author of "The Four Orders of Architecture.”

True

False

He wrote the book, “De ReAedificatoria,” and helped promote architecture from an artisan’s trade to a profession by calling for such intellectual requirements as mathematics, geometry, and philosophy.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Leon Battista Alberti

Brunelleschi

Donato Bramante

He designed the temple that is located where S. Peter was martyred.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Donato Bramante

Leonardo da Vinci

Leon Battista Alberti

His principal work is the Dome of Florence Cathedral.

Florence Pugh

Brunelleschi

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Riccardi

Bramante was the second commissioned to design St. Peter's Cathedral.

True

False

It is the reaction against the classical perfection of the High Renaissance it either responded with a rigorous application of classical rules, or flaunted classical convention, in terms of scale and shape.

Manerrism

Mannerist

Mannerism

Manerrist

A famous Florentine sculptor and painter of the roof of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican.

Michaelangelo Buonarotti

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Michelangelo Buonarrotti

A Florentine sculptor finished the Farnese Palace.

True

False

These are country houses that took the place of fortified castles as residence for noble families.

Chateau de Chambord

Chateu de Chambord

Chateau di Chambord

Chaeteau de Chambord

When did Renaissance period took place?

1420-1450

1420-1540

1420-1550

1420-1540

Elizabethan (1568 to 1603 A.D.) was established during the reign of Queen Elizabeth in England.

False

True

It has transition style with Gothic features and Renaissance detail.

Elizabethan

Jacobean

Stuart

Georgian

A style during 1603 to 1625 A.D.

Elizabethan

Jacobean

Stuart

Georgian

A style during 1702 to 1830 A.D.

Elizabethan

Jacobean

Stuart

Georgian

A style during 1625 to 1702 A.D.

Elizabethan

Jacobean

Stuart

Georgian

Contains E-shaped or H-shaped plan and built for statesmen, merchants, and gentry.

Stuart buildings

Elizabethan Mansions

Banqueting house

The Banqueting House in London was designed by Inigo Jones.

True

False

The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral was painted by Sir James Thornhill.

True

False

Other

Please Specify:

He designed the St. Paul's Cathedral.

Sir James Thornhill

Christopher Wren

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Leonardo da Vinci

Under what type of style is most monumental mansion on England?

Georgian

Stuart

Elizabethan

Jacobean

It is a rich, and poetic style, so named for its similarity to silversmiths’ work.

Plateresque

Manueline Style

Early Period

Antiquarian Period

It is decorative rather than structural in character, inspired by the voyages of discoveries

Plateresque

Manueline Style

It has close adherence to Italian Renaissance art.

Early Period (1492 to 1556 A.D.)

Classical Period (1556 to 1690 A.D.)

Baroque Period (1650 to 1750 A.D.)

Antiquarian Period (1750 to 1830 A.D.)

During this period, classical rules disregarded

Baroque Period (1750 to 1850 A.D.)

Baroque Period (1650 to 1750 A.D.)

Baroque Period (1450 to 1750 A.D.)

Baroque Period (1650 to 1750 A.D.)

Antiquarian Period returned to Ancient Classical Models.

True

False

Curvaceous, daring forms, ornate and richly gilded.

Baroque

Renaissance

Rococo

In Roman, Rocaille means shell.

True

False

The Baroque period used excessive light.

True

False

The Rococo period playfully decorated the interiors with flowers, birds, ribbons, etc.

True

False

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