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Example Question #316 : 3 D Art
Neoclassical architecture sought to revive the style of architecture prevalent in __________.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Byzantium
Medieval Germany
Ancient Rome
Neoclassical art and architecture came about in Europe hand in hand with the philosophical era known as the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century. Just as the Enlightenment reacted against Catholic Christianity and embraced reason over emotion, Neoclassical artists sought to go back to antiquity, to a "pre-Christian" era. Thus, Neoclassical architecture brought back the chief elements of Roman architecture, like columns, domes, and collonades.
Example Question #1 : Understanding Terminology That Describes Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
Stretchers, headers, and soldiers are terms used to describe __________.
stucco patterns
architectural painting
brickwork
steel beams
brickwork
In brickwork, particularly when used in the construction of large buildings; different terms are used to describe how bricks are laid out and how they relate to each other. A stretcher is a brick laid lengthwise, facing out on its larger face, a header is a brick laid with its shorter end facing out on the wall, and a soldier is a brick laid on its small end with its long side facing out.
Example Question #2 : Understanding Terminology That Describes Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
This design plan is highly representative of the style known as __________.
Gothic
Baroque
Rococo
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism
Inigo Jones, who drafted this plan for a new Palace at Whitehall, was the first notable English architect, working in the seventeenth century. His greatest contribution to English architecture was to bring Italian ideals of neoclassicism to the British Isles. Neoclassicism's use of perfect symmetry and Greco-Roman aesthetics was a sharp departure from the overly wrought palaces and red brick houses of Tudor England.
Image: Plan for A New Palace at Whitehall by Inigo Jones (1638). <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingo_Jones_plan_for_a_new_palace_at_Whitehall_1638.jpg>
Example Question #1 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The "cupola" on the building shown here describes the _______________.
combination of brick and concrete as building materials
columned front entryway
gardens surrounding the building
dome over the building
dome over the building
The pride of Jefferson regarding Monticello was the cupola, or dome, over the top of the building. The building of the cupola was a massive architectural problem, needing intense calculations and measurements just to keep the dome upright. Jefferson placed his own study in the cupola, as it also provided the best light and airflow of any room.
Image accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons. Author: YF12. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monticello_2010-10-29.jpg
Example Question #1 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The English architect responsible for rebuilding many churches after the great London fire of 1666, including St. Paul's Cathedral, is __________.
Christopher Wren
Giacomo Leoni
Robert Hooke
Inigo Jones
Christopher Wren
The Great London Fire of 1666 destroyed many of the buildings in the city, including the original St. Paul's Cathedral, and necessitated massive architectural projects. The largest beneficiary of this was Sir Christopher Wren, a mathematician as well as an architect, who created over fifty churches and rebuilt St. Paul's. Wren's legacy found its way throughout baroque architecture, and his St. Paul's design influenced the Pantheon in Paris, the U.S. Capitol, and many other buildings.
Example Question #3 : Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The architect who created this plan began his career as __________.
a mason
a painter
a blacksmith
a stage designer
a stage designer
When Inigo Jones, who created this plan of a new Palace at Whitehall in 1638, first became an architect, the field was only newly springing up as a separate artistic discipline. There was no training in architecture or building design, and many seventeenth-century architects were self-taught artisans who came from related fields. Jones began as a stage designer, where he built sets and costumes for shows at the English court, and was typical of his era of architects for starting off in an artistic field that required knowledge of structures and fabrication.
Image: Plan for A New Palace at Whitehall by Inigo Jones (1638). <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingo_Jones_plan_for_a_new_palace_at_Whitehall_1638.jpg>
Example Question #3 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
"Federal style" architecture is most closely associated with which European architectural style?
Regency style
Mannerist style
Baroque style
Napoleon III style
Regency style
The Federal style of architecture refers to the buildings designed and constructed in the first few decades of the United States' independence, roughly 1785 to 1815. The Federal style was closely related to the "Regency style" in Britain, which took place under the Regency of the Prince of Wales (later King George IV) during 1811 to 1820. Both styles were developments of Neoclassicism, which borrowed elements from Roman architecture like columns, domes, and white marble.
Example Question #324 : 3 D Art
Which eighteenth-through-twenty-first-century Western architectural movement drew inspiration from Roman and Greek art and culture and coincided with the eighteenth-century Age of Enlightenment?
The Renaissance
Art Nouveau
Art Deco
Neoclassicism
Mannerist Architecture
Neoclassicism
The term neoclassicism can be broken down into two parts: "Neo" and "Classic." This refers to the fact that is a new ("neo") interpretation of classic architectural and artistic concepts pioneered by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Art Deco and Art Nouveau are movements firmly planted in the twentieth century, and Mannerism and the Renaissance are much too far in the past to even be considered for a question that is about an eighteenth-through-twenty-first-century artistic movement.
Example Question #4 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
By the end of the 18th century, the Rococo artistic and architectural style had been replaced by which successor, whose inspiration seemed to stem from certain Ancient civilizations?
None of these answers
Romanticism
Neoclassicism
Art Deco
Baroque
Neoclassicism
The Rococo artistic and architectural movement and style, also known as "Late Baroque," surged in the late 18th century as a more intricate, delicate, light and asymmetrical approach to architecture than the Baroque style that came before it. Neoclassicism, which came as a direct opposition to Rococo, had replaced the asymmetrical, graceful architecture and art of the Rococo with its own focus on symmetry and simplicity by the end of the 18th century.
Example Question #5 : Identifying Artists, Works, Or Schools Of Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The building shown here was significantly influenced by the work of ______________________.
Inigo Jones
Christopher Wren
Andrea Palladio
Francesco Borromini
Andrea Palladio
Thomas Jefferson was the principal designer, architect, and builder of Monticello, but his plans and designs were heavily influenced by the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio not only built a number of impressive works of his own, but also wrote an influential treatise on architecture, The Four Books of Architecture. Jefferson was self-taught as an architect, largely from the writings of Palladio.
Image accessed through Wikipedia Media Commons. Author: YF12. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monticello_2010-10-29.jpg
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