Exam 3
Which date best corresponds to the Ancestral Pueblo culture of the Southwest US?
11000 CE
About when was this structure built?
1200 CE
About when was this structure built?
1625
Around when was this space built?
1670
What type of building is this?
Ball Court
Who designed the buildings pictured?
Bernardo Rosselino
Which of these is not a difference in the planning of Teotihuacan and Tikal?
Both relied on corn (maize) as a primary source of calories
Which of these best demonstrates the rhetorical principle of "variety" that was important to Alberti?
Buildings on the main square of Pienza
Which of these is not a trait of Palladio's villas?
Expensive exterior materials like rich marbles
Where is this building?
Fatehpur Sikri, India
Who was the primary architect of this building?
Filippo Brunelleschi
Who designed this building?
Francesco Borromini
Which of these is an aspect of the design of Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane that sets it apart from other work of the period?
Geometry of the interior is generate using forms that are outside the walls.
What is the term used to describe the temple mounds of the Andean cultures?
Huaca
Where is this building?
Isfahan, Iran
Which of these is NOT a distinctive characteristic of Alberti's Palazzo Rucellai?
It has double arched windows
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of Brunelleschi's dome for Florence Cathedral that made it easier/possible to build?
It was modeled after the Pantheon
When architects in 16th century built "mannerist" villas and gardens, who was the primary audience for their sometimes eccentric and playful ideas?
Knowledgable membes of the nobility
Which of these sites is associated with the Olmec culture?
La Venta, Mexico
King___built a grouping of churches as a Christian pilgrimage site that replicates the Holy Land.
Lalibela
What important artist worked with Bramante in Milan before 1494?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which of these is a characteristic of Mughal buildings that derives from local Indian sources?
Long roof overhangs
What historical regime built this and other mud brick mosques in Africa?
Mali Empire
What term best describes the design approach in this garden?
Mannerism
Who designed this space and where is it?
Michelangelo/Rome
Who is the designer of this building?
Mimar Sinan
Most of the monumental structures at this Mayan site were built under the great king Pakal.
Palenque
Who designed this building and where is it?
Palladio/Vicenza
What ruler proclaimed the Law of the Indies?
Philip II
What was the primary interior finish of Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane?
Plaster
What characteristic of Teotihuacan distiguishes it from other Mesoamerican cities?
Rectilinear grid plan
What important feature of the Lalibela site was also part of the city's infrastructure?
River Jordan
What building of Alberti's most clearly shows an appreciation of the spatial character of Imperial Roman buildings?
San Andrea in Mantua
According to Alberti, which of these is NOT a key characteristic of Istoria in painting?
Setting figures in a landscape
What pope is most responsible for the re-planning of Rome in the 1580s?
Sixtus V
Which of these is NOT a key difference between Alberti's treatise and later architectural books by Serlio and Palladio?
The author refers to Vitruvius
Where is this structure?
Tikal, Guatemala
What is the name of this building, and who is the architect?
Uffizi/Vasari
Which of these is a characteristic of Bernini's work that satisfied the needs of the Catholic Church after the counter-reformation?
Use of mixed media for dramatic effect
Which of these is not a feature of Michelangelo's vestibule to the Library of San Lorenzo that departs or contradicts the norms of classical design?
Use of the Corinthian order
The Observatory Temple at Chichen-Itza was used to track the movements of____
Venus
Where is this building?
Vienna, Austria
Architects active in Rome in the 17th century were good at___.
Working with complex site constraints
The Ottoman Turks called a mosque complex with subsidiary charitable and social functions a
kulliye
In Japan__is a self-consciously simple and rustic aesthetic associated with Zen Buddhism.
wabi sabi
