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36 Cards in this Set
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baroque
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derogatory at first- something that had broken away from the norm, irregular
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Il Gesu facade
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Sta Susana, Rome
-Carlo Maderno |
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St Peter's facade
-Maderno |
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arial view of st peter's
-shows maderno's nave |
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Bernini
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-architect and sculptor
-child prodigy |
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St Peter's arial view
-Bernini's colonnade |
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baldachin
-over tomb of st peter -pr for barbarini family- Urban VIII |
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Cornaro Chapel
-Bernini -funerary chapel for cornaro family |
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Francesco Borromini
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-commited suicide
-curving spaces and underlying order |
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Vaux le Vicomte
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Versailles
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Balthasar Neuman
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great architect
-wurzburg palace |
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Wurzburg Palace
-balthasar |
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Vierzehnheiligen
-altar of 14 saints |
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tufa
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two kinds:
-compacted volcanic ash -lightweight limestone |
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Christopher Wren
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architect
-called himself a geometer -st paul's London |
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St Paul's Cathedral, London
-Christopher Wren -changed many times during construction |
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Inverted Catenary Curve
-whole thing in compression |
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botchka
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romanticism
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appeals to the senses- picturesque
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classicism
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appeals to the intellect
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historicism
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turning to the past for design inspiration- evaluation and selective use
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Strawberry Hill, England
-used medieval details to gothicize it |
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picturesque
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stimulate emotions/senses- just a tad
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sublime
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overwhelming, delightful terror
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Stourhead Garden, England
-manmade lake |
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Osterly Park
-Adam -designed total environments |
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Pantheon, Paris
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Royal Pavillion at Brighton
-John Nash |
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Houses of Parlaiment, London
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Pugin
-architect theoretician -gothic was true christian style |
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British Museum
-Robert Smirke |
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Reading Room, British Museum
-Sydney Smirke |
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Baron von Haussmann
-rebuilt city of paris |
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typical paris street
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