Exam 1: Hist 3

Which of the following describes the setting of the Oath of the Horatii

A room with rounded arches and columns

"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..."

AW Pugin

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.

Boullee, Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton Etienne-Louis Boullee, Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton

"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."

Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc

The renewed interest in classical antiquity of the 18th century can be credited to the archaeological discoveries at which sites

Herculaneum and Pompeii

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."

Laugier

What is an example of the international impact of Beaux-arts eclecticism

Philadelphia city hall, philadelphia usa

Which Romantic-style building is a conglomeration of Islamic domes, minarets, and screens that has been called "Indian Gothic"?

Royal Pavillion, Brighton

According to John Ruskin, how can a building fulfill the lamp of truth

The materials and structure of the building would be accurately represented.

Which philosopher believed that the betterment of humanity lay in the advancement of science and the rational improvement of society

Voltaire

Members of which movement dedicated themselves to producing functional objects with high aesthetic value for a wide public?

arts and crafts

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

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

Which structure was built for the great exhibition in Paris in 1889 and was originally seen as a symbol of modern Paris

eiffel tower

William Morris embraced luxury and encouraged the middle classes to buy mass-produced objects to decorate their houses.

false

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

heavy banded columns

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

In constructing the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, what cost-effective innovation did Joseph Paxton employ

prefabricated elements

What period was Ruskin most influential in

victorian period