ARCH 2003 Second Exam

Spoils

The interior columns of this building were "borrowed" from other existing buildings and for that reason they are called?

Early Gothic

This building is an example of which period style?

Oxen

What animals are found sculpted near the top of the towers?

St. Peter's Tomb

What important feature does the transept direct traffic to?

A church which serves as the "headquarters" of a bishop

What is a cathedral?

Pozzolana

What is the "magic ingredient" which, when mixed with lime, was used to make the cement for ancient Roman concrete?

Pointed

What is the arch most frequently used in Gothic architecture?

Constantinople

What is the capital of the Byzantine empire?

Ambulatory

What is the ground floor passage that runs around the perimeter of this of this building (in plan) called?

Latin cross plan

What is the name for the specific type of plan which is found in this building?

Side aisles

What is the name given to the lower spaces that run along either side of the tall central space in the middle?

Impost block

What is the name of the architectural feature often used as a "cushion" between the top of a column and the bottom of an arch?

Rose window

What is the name of the big round window above the doors of the west facade?

Cloister

What is the name of the enclosed courtyard (open to the sky) at the center of a monastery?

Narthex

What is the name of the entrance vestibule that was once attached to this building?

Spandrel

What is the name of the portion of a wall built above an arch?

Apse

What is the name of the semi-circular space at the far end of this building?

Nave

What is the name of the space that lies in the middle of this building, flanked by two rows of columns?

Ambulatory

What is the name of the space that wraps around the

Pendentive

What is the name of the structural feature which resembles a spherical triangle (when seen from below) and supports the dome?

Byzantine

What is the name of this client's empire?

Centralized plan

What is the type of plan used in this building?

Alter

What is usually found in the aspe?

Master mason

What kind of craftsman or artisan usually served as the designer of a building like this?

Banded barrel vault

What kind of vault is found over the tall space running through the center of this building?

Banded barrel vault

What kind of vault is most often found over the principal spaces of Romanesque churches?

Rib Vaulting

What kind of vaulting is most closely associated with Gothic architecture?

6-part rib vault

What kind of vaulting is used over the principal spaces of this building? Be specific.

Quadrant vault

What kind of vaults help support the vaults help support the banded barrel vault from either side?

Brick and mortar, but the brick to mortar ratio is not normal, there is too much mortar which is what caused the building to settle.

What material is the vast majority of this building actually built of?

Carolingian

What period style does this building belong to?

Bronze pine cone

What piece of sculpture was formerly found in the atrium of Old St. Peter's in Rome (and is now found somewhere else in the vicinity)?

Centralized

What type of plan does this building have?

4th century

When was it built?

5th Century

When was it built?

9th century

When was it built?

6th Century

When was this building built?

Laon, France

Where is it?

Aachen, Germany

Where is this building located?

Ravenna, Italy

Where is this building?

Rome, Italy

Where is this building?

Cluny III

Which building that we studied was designed as a "copy" of this one, despite the fact that it was built 1,000 years later and for clients that belong to a different religion?

Constantinople

Which city was founded by colonists who were advised to settle "opposite the blind?"

Byzantine

Which empire did the contemporary figures belong to?

A new ceiling

Which feature of this building was added many centuries after the building was first built?

Nika Riots

Which historical event made the construction of the building necessary?

Arch of Titus

Which monument that we studied celebrates the defeat of the Jewish Revolt of the 1st century A.D. and the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem?

Basilica

Which older building type was used as the basis for developing the form of this building and many others that followed?

Constantine

Who made it legal to construct monumental buildings for the religious tradition represented by the building shown here?

Oto of Metz

Who was the architect?

Charlemagne

Who was the client?

The first floor is for the commoners, and the second floor is for the nobles and royals.

Why does this building have two floor levels on the interior?

1. Holy Wisdom 2. Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) 532-537 3. Isidoros of Miletus and Anthemios of Tralles. Worked as a mathematician and an engineer. 4. Emperor Justinian

1. What is the literal meaning of the name? 2. Location 3. Architects and previous jobs of the designers. 4. Client

Christian house churches

Before Christianity became a legal religion in the Roman Empire, where did Christianity communities gather to pray?

12th Century

Date built?

East

If a church is oriented properly, in which cardinal direction does it face?

Mosaic

In this building, what medium (material) is used to create pictures that show Biblical stories?

Mathematician and engineer

Jobs of the designers before they designed this building?

San Vitale; Ravenna, Italy

Many historians believe that this building was designed to resemble another, earlier which we studied. Which earlier building was it and where is it?

Clerestory, Triforium, Gallery, and Nave Arcade

Name all the "stories" of this building's interior elevation:

Justinian and Theadora

Name two contemporary figures who are represented in the decoration of this building?

Constantine

The construction of the monumental buildings for the religious tradition represented by the building shown here was made legal by who?