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URBS 110 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
What two institutions governed medieval Europe? - answer✔The church and the Feudal nobility
what were conditions like in medieval cities? - answer✔Congested and unsanitary
What type of street configuration was characteristic of medieval cities? - answer✔Irregular street
patterns
What were design innovations, constructed together, supported Romanesque cathedrals and
castles. - answer✔Pointed arch and Rib vault
what features allowed Gothic cathedrals to be built to greater heights with massive windows? -
answer✔posted arch, rub vault, and flying buttress.
what factors led to the waning of the Middle Ages? - answer✔-Change in warfare which
emphasized the archer of foot solider
-gunpowder
-Black Death
-Babylonian captivity of the church
What force superseded the feudal system and the church? - answer✔Commerce and Finance
How did Renaissance paintings differ from Medieval? - answer✔Medieval figures were flat and
two dimensional.
Renaissance subjects are fuller which resembled human anatomy.
What new painting techniques decorated the walls of early renaissance chapels? -
answer✔Buonfresco. painting on wet plaster
What was innovative about Brunelleschi's dome? - answer✔It has a double shell of masonry that
combines both Gothic and renaissance elements.
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Contrast a Renaissance cathedral with high Gothic and Romanesque - answer✔Renaissance
cathedrals were less elaborate with a cleaner design
-Gothic cathedrals were heavier
what was the Renaissance perspective? - answer✔The artists developed mathematical system
based upon proportions to enable the artists to represent the visual world.
What was distinctive about the Medici palace? - answer✔The façade was also comprised of large
rusticated blocks, blocks with their outer faces left rough.
what types of structure is the new Saint Peter's? How did Michelangelo influence the design? -
answer✔-Basilica
-Michelangelo simplified Bramante's design by creating a single unifying space, covered with a
hemisphere.
what new style of architecture did Michelangelo pioneer? - answer✔-Baroque
-He bypassed the Renaissance emphasis on proportion and opened up new concepts of scale and
space.
How was the mannerist style a major departure from previous architecture? Why is it considered
as a "joke" - answer✔Mannerism.
Lets through out the rules and have a playful design.
It was joke bc it did not follow the rules.
What made Andrea Palladio's style unique from architecture in other parts of Italy? Provide two
examples - answer✔Palladio is known for two prominent structures in the region. First the
church of San Georio Marggiore
The interior of San Giorgio shows harmonious, his most famous was a villa outside of Vincenza.
What French Monarch promoted Renaissance architecture in France? - answer✔Francis I
How did French Renaissance Architecture differ from Italian? - answer✔It was incorporated into
existing gothic buildings.
What were the main Renaissance design features of Fontainebleau - answer✔Lower level-
Carved wood paneling
upper level- Combination of stucco/painting