History III Exam I
"The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.... Strange as it may appear at first sight, it is in pointed architecture alone that these great principles have been carried out..." Who is the author of this quote?
A.W. N. Pugin
Houses of Parliament
A.W.N. Pugin and Charles Barry, London, 1835
Which style found favor in 19th century architecture in Paris because it was well suited to conveying a grandeur worthy of the new Parisian elite.
Beaux-Arts or Second Empire Style
French Enlightenment architects were interested in the primary geometric solids of the cube, sphere and pyramid as the logical basis for architectural expression and proposed entire buildings dominated by geometries of elementary volumes. Give an example.
Boullee, Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton
French Enlightenment architects were interested in the primary geometric solids of the cube, sphere and pyramid as the logical basis for architectural expression and proposed entire buildings dominated by geometries of elementary volumes. Give an example.
Boullee, Newton's Cenotaph
The Opera
Charles Garnier, Paris, 1861075
Saltworks at the Ideal City of Chaux
Claude- Nicholas Ledoux, Arc-et-Senans, 1780-1800
The Romantic sensibility evident in the energy of Joseph Mallord William Turner's landscapes and seascapes relies on the emotive power of which element of his painting style?
Color
Bar at the Folies- Bergere
Edouard Manet, 1882
Which structure was built for the great exhibition in Paris in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris?
Eiffel Tower
French Enlightenment architects were interested in the primary geometric solids of the cube, sphere and pyramid as the logical basis for architectural expression and proposed entire buildings dominated by geometries of elementary volumes. Give an example.
Etienne-Louis Boullee, Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton
French Enlightenment architects were interested in the primary geometric solids of the cube, sphere and pyramid as the logical basis for architectural expression and proposed entire buildings dominated by geometries of elementary volumes. Give an example.
Etienne-Louis Boullee, Newton's Cenotaph
"Stone, marble, wood, cast iron or wrought iron, and the various forms of baked clay have widely different properties: in view of this variety and even opposition of character in the several materials, the form that suits one of them cannot suit another." Who is the author of this quote?
Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc
Victoria Terminus
Frederick Stevens, Mumbai India, 1878-87
The renewed interest in classical antiquity of the 18th century can be credited to the archaeological discoveries at which sites?
Herculaneum and Pompeii
Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David, 1784
Crystal Palace
Joseph Paxton, London, 1851
Altes Museum
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Berlin, 1824-38
________________________________ is an example of the international impact of Beaux-Arts eclecticism. Name of building in City, Country
Kyoto National Museum in Kyoto, Japan
Napoleon's embrace of Neoclassicism as a means of linking his own reign to the ancient Roman Empire is embodied in which monument?
La Madeleine
"Such is the course of simple nature; by imitating the natural process, art was born. All the splendors of architecture ever conceived have been modeled on the little rustic hut I have just described. It is by approaching the simplicity of this first model that fundamental mistakes are avoided and true perfection is achieved." Who is the author of this quote?
Marc-Antoine Laugier
________________________________ is an example of the international impact of Beaux-Arts eclecticism. Name of building in City, Country
Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The 19th-century revival of historical architectural styles led Barry and Pugin to rebuild the Houses of Parliament in London in what style?
Neo-Gothic
Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii can be said to be a paragon of which style?
Neoclassical
________________________________ is an example of the international impact of Beaux-Arts eclecticism. Name of building in City, Country
Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, USA
In constructing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, what cost-effective innovation did Joseph Paxton employ?
Prefabricated elements
Which Romantic-style building is a conglomeration of Islamic domes, minarets, and screens that has been called "Indian Gothic"?
Royal Pavilion, Brighton
What period was Ruskin most influential in?
The Victorian period
Ledoux's designs make use of simplified versions of the classical orders realized in heavily rusticated masonry. The authority of the director of the Saltworks is stated emphatically by .....
The heavy banded columns
According to John Ruskin, how can a building fulfill the lamp of truth?
The materials and structure of the building would be accurately represented.
Virginia State Capitol
Thomas Jefferson, Richmond VA, 1785
Which philosopher believed that the betterment of humanity lay in the advancement of science and the rational improvement of society?
Voltaire
The Slave Ship
William Turner, 1840
