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39 Cards in this Set
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Of all the materials used [to make stackable blocks], the most adaptable, permanent and expressive is |
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The problem from the start was not so much how to leave holes in the sides . . . as to how to finish the buildingat the
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Whatever its elaboration, the _____________________ and _____________________ is the fundamentalform used in buildings all over the world. (one point for each blank).
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Then houses moved upwards. The addition of an upper floor or balcony required the construction of a____________________, either internal or external.
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Further refinements came with the development of ways of regulating _____________________ .
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[Brunelleschi’s] Foundling Hospital of 1421, simple and serene, with graceful arcades of___________________-headed arches above slim Corinthian columns, plain rectangular windows directly abovethe center of each arch and simple triangular pediment, was another inaugural building of the Renaissance.
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[Brunelleschi’s] Pazzi Chapel, entered through a tall arch in the loggia, was a revolutionary____________________ – no longer a nave and aisles, but a square covered by a dome.
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These men [Alberti, Serlio, di Girogio, Palladio, Vignola, Romano] were no longer master masons, howeverbrilliant; they were ____________________. Architecture was no longer the continuation of a practical tradition,handed on through masons’ lodges; it was a literary idea.
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A new concept of spatial relationships had been made possible by the discovery of ____________________by the Florentine painters in about 1425, or possibly by Brunelleschi himself.
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Leon Battista Alberti’s book] De Re Aedificatoria (On Architecture) begun in the 1440s and published in 1485,was the first ____________________ book to be printed.
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[Alberti] explained the theory of ____________________ based on the harmony of numbers and usedEuclidean geometry to lend authority to the use of basic shapes . . . working out ideal proportions.
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beauty
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7. Vitruvius, in Book III of De Architectura, had suggested that a building should reflect the proportions of the____________________ figure, and Leonardo da Vinci developed this idea in his famous drawing relating[SAME WORD] proportions to the ideal shapes – the square and the circle.
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human
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In the Palazzo Rucellai (1446-57), Alberti used different ____________________ for different floors – Doric,Ionic and Corinthian – as the Romans had done on the Colosseum.
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orders
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If the outside of a Renaissance palace was forbidding, once inside the ____________________ all wasdifferent; the prison-like exterior gave way to a scenario for gracious, hospitable and elegant living for very richpeople.
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courtyard
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[Bramante’s] “Tempietto” is consciously modeled on the ancient ____________________ Temple of Vesta[in Tivoli].
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roman
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Bramante’s remarkable achievement [in “The Tempietto”] was that, while the proportions of this building werein such harmony that it seemed that nothing could be added or subtracted without ruining the____________________ , its original conception has proved immensely successful.
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whole |
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[Bramante’s original plan [for St. Peter’s Basilica] . . . was a Greek ____________________ superimposedon a square with a central hemispherical dome supported on four massive piers.
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cross |
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What was Michelangelo’s contribution [to the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica] ? With a sculptor’s eye for thethree-dimensional, he bypassed the contemporary preoccupation with ____________________ to open up newconcepts of scale and space.
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proportion
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[At the Laurentian Library, Michelangelo] made no attempt to re-create the balanced proportions of theRenaissance. On the contrary, he ____________________ the disparity of the two elements by running a longlow room off the upper part of a high, narrow block.
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exaggerated
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Another Michelangelo hallmark, to be widely adopted by Palladio and others, was the creation of____________________ orders (columns running up through two or more storeys).
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giant
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In fact, [Giulio Romano] expended as much ____________________ exertion on breaking the rules as he didin keeping them.
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intellectual
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The third center of Renaissance architecture was ____________________ and its surrounding region.
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Venice
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In his Villa Capra (Rotonda) near Vicenza (1565-59), a symmetrical building, [Palladio] created an ideal placefor a ____________________ purpose.
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secular
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With the Basilica (Palazzo della Ragione) in Vicenza (1549), Palladio gave Europe one of its most populararchitectural motifs, the Palladian motif, a central arched ____________________ or opening flanked by a flattoppedwindow on each side.
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window
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Italian Renaissance forms were ____________________ in crossing over the Alps.
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slow |
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Nationalism was not the only thing working against the import of Italian ways from the sixteenth to theeighteenth century: there was the question of ____________________ .
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religion
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At first glance, the symmetry of [Domenico da Cortona’s Chateau du Chambord’s] plan seems perfectlyrespectable from a Renaissance point of view . . . but at Chambord, two-thirds of the entry____________________ is just a screen, and it is only the central block . . . which is actually the living quartersfor the family.
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façade
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Roofs were very ____________________ to the French, one kind of roof is even called after the architectFrançois Mansart – the mansard roof with a steep boxy side to it that allows the architect to stuff virtually a fullheight row of rooms into it.
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important
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But the coming and going of artists was not the only way in which Renaissance ideas filtered through to the restof Europe. Some ideas were expressed on paper, in the ____________________ -books that were beingproduced in abundance in Italy.
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pattern
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There is another basic drawback to the learning of styles from ____________________, namely that prints aretwo-dimensional.
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books |
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The Louvre has a copy-plate flavor about it, even though [Claude] Perrault made history by treating a tall ground floor as a _____________________ on which to build a first-floor loggia of giant coupled columns.
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podium
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[At the Escorial Palace near Madrid], there was no room here for private Mannerist ____________________ orany hint of relaxation or pleasure.
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jokes |
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Whereas in the Middle Ages the bulk of building was ecclesiastical, now [after the Renaissance], the stock of____________________ building started to increase.
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secular
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During this time in England, compact but sizeable houses mushroomed, often built to house the rich ______________________ .
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merchants
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. During this time in England, compact but sizeable houses mushroomed, often built to house the rich____________________ .
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merchants |
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ____________________ got larger and larger, until ofanother [Robert] Smythson house it could be said “Hardwick Hall, More glass than wall.”
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windows |
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Now, in sixteenth-century Spain, experiments in the development of new ____________________ types weretaking place.
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stair
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In the seventeenth century, Holland was the place for the mature creation of Renaissance town____________________ on a large scale
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housing
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“The outward ornaments,” wrote [Inigo Jones], “ought to be solid, proportionable according to rules,____________________ and unaffected.”
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masculine
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