Ronald Ramsay Architecture History II: Exam 1 Complete Questions And Answers

De re aedificatoria - Answer-Alberti's architectural theory text I Quattro Libri dell' Architettura - Answer-Andrea Palladio's architectural theory text Boccaccio - Answer-Author of the Decameron Petrarch - Answer-Italian poet of the Early Renaissance Protagoras - Answer-"man is the measure of all things" Scala Regia - Answer-Bernini's papal stairway at the Vatican Andrea Palladio - Answer-16th century architect from Vicenza Campidoglio - Answer-the Capitol in Rome Tempietto - Answer-Commissioned by Ferdinand & Isabella "crow's foot" - Answer-planning device used in Baroque landscapes Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Answer-architect of the Piazza at St. Peter's Rome "Fountain of the Four Rivers" - Answer-Bernini's sculptural comment on Borromini Francesco Borromini - Answer-Architect of San Carlo all Quatro FontaneThe Renaissance began in - Answer-Florence At the heart of the new architectural style was _________, the philosophy drawn from a new understanding of ancient pre-Christian writers - Answer-Humanism _____ is usually identified as the earliest architect of the new Renaissance style - Answer-Brunelleschi ______ is the first building to exemplify the new Renaissance style - Answer-the Foundling Hospital What are the three most obvious characteristics of the new Renaissance architectural style? - Answer-1- a more authentic use of the classical "orders" 2- reliance upon primary geometric ratios/relationships 3- the return to a dominant sense of center The High Renaissance style shifted the center of its activity to - Answer-Rome Leone Batista Alberti - Answer-classical learning and literary pursuits Filippo Brunelleschi - Answer-goldsmithing and other applied/decorative art Inigo Jones - Answer-theater (stage set design and costuming) Michelangelo - Answer-fine art, i.e. painting and/or sculpture ______ was a short lived phase of the Italian Renaissance during the early 1500s. - Answer-Mannerism (was from ). The High Renaissance is also a valid option however it is from which is not the early 1500s.The Queen's House at Greenwich, England, draws its exterior organization from - Answer-the Palazzo Chierricati in Vicenza Who defined beauty as "the harmony and concord of all the parts achieved by well founded rules and resulting in a unity such that nothing could be added or taken away or altered except for the worse?" - Answer-Alberti What is the general meaning of the word "baroque?" - Answer-Mishappen, distorted