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21 Cards in this Set
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Describe the structural difference between a Roman and Byzantine dome?
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Roman: Flat Dome on a drum/rotunda
with vertical supports Byzantine: Floating dome- using of pendentives |
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Byzantine architecture can be credited with the invention of what two new structural techinques?
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flying buttress and pendentives
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Describe the difference between a roman space and byzantine space?
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Roman: Arregration of structural unit on the inside/smaller modulus
Byzantine space: Space is enlarged -load taking to sides -less articulation/more comples |
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what is the role of a pendentive?
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makes a transition from round dome to a square bay
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describe the difference between a Byzantine church's exterior and its interior. What are the reason for this difference?
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Exterior: Stone: Earthly life - not highly articulated
Interior: heavenly life: Dominant in its space/oramentation- highlights heave/earth |
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Early Moslem architecure can be credited with what three architectural innovations?
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High profile dome, pointed arch, and squinch
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what is a squinch?
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Corbelling of bricks that goes from octagonal shape to a dome shape
- filling in the upper angles of a square room to form a proper base |
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Who were the Normans?
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Viking Roots- People settle in Northern France and Married French people
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what two architectural innovations did the normans bring back from their adventures in the Mediterranean?
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Ribbed Groin Vault & Pointed Arch
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To span the space between a circular dome and a square bay, Moslem architects typically used a series of arches built upon one another. This device is known as a ?
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Squinch
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what was the roman solution to the thrust of a dome's hauches
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ballast steps
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Explain why Rome was abandoned by the Papacy for the first 50 years of the Renaissance as it evolved in France?
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France was jealous of Papaly state power
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who were the Ghibellines and the Guelfs?
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Ghibellines: People supported the Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
Guelfs: Supported the Papacy in Rom |
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Who is credited as being the
"Father of the Renaissance"? |
Francisco Peterca
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Explain how Florence benefitted from the Babylonian captivity?
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High Profile dome
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Who is Coluccio Salutati?
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Chancellor of France
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Compare the scale of the Florence dome to the Pantheon and Beauvais Cathedral?
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Bigger than anything in History-
You could fit the Beauvais Catherdral inside of the Pantheon |
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Explain how the final appearance of the Florence Cathedral is a manifestation of the battle between the Ghebellines and the Guelfs in Florence?
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Pointed Arches then shifted in
1367 to Guelf (south)- Rounded roman arches |
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Why did Byzantine churches employ gold leaf mosaics interiors?
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Because the bible describes heaven as being gold
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Who published the first treatise on perspective?
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Brunelleschi
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The only Classical Treastise on architecture recovered during the Renaissance was written by?
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Vitruvius
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