Final Exam - Multi Choice

Brunelleschi set off for Rome after losing a competition to design a new set of bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence Cathedral to:

Ghiberti

At the facade of the Rucellai Palace in Florence Alberti used:

superimposed Doric and Corinthian orders.

Masaccio’s The Trinity:

Demonstrates Brunelleschi’s method of linear perspective.

To frame, or set off, architectural elements on the Pazzi Chapel’s interior, Brunelleschi used:

gray pietra serena.

The facade of Alberti’s church of S. Maria Novella:

became a prototype repeated by Renaissance designers.

Which of the following is true about Michelozzo’s Palazzo Medici in Florence?

Michelozzo made use of rustication, stone blocks with deeply recessed chambered joints.

Alberti modeled his De Re Aedificatoria, or On Building, on:

Vitruvius’ The Ten Books of Architecture

Leon Battista Alberti dedicated Della Pittura to:

All the answers are correct.

Donato Bramante’s plan for the Tempietto was intended to:

have a circular temple within a circular cloister.

Donato Bramante’s Belverdere Court was:

a great exterior space adjacent to St. Peter’s.

The plan for Alberti’s church of S. Andrea in Mantua was that of:

the ancient Roman Basillica of Constantine.

The medieval inspiration for Brunelleschi’s Florence Cathedral dome is revealed by its:

pointed-arch profile.

The facade design of the church of S. Francesco (Tempio Malatestiano) in Remini is based on:

The nearby Roman Arch of Augustus.

The Vitruvian Man is:

a man’s figure inscribed inside a circle and a square.

The small book titled The Prince was written by:

Machiavelli.

The church of S. Spirito in Florence illustrates Brunelleschi’s use of:

the system of modular planning.

Based on evidence in his sketchbooks, the principal architectural problem that concerned Leonardo da Vinci, like it did the Renaissance designers, was the:

central-plan church.

The distinctive feature of Donato Bramante’s S. Maria presso S. Satiro is the:

illusionistic manipulation of the chancel wall.

The Place des Vosges is

surrounded by regularized residential facades.

Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library is part of the complex that includes:

S. Lorenzo in Florence

Inigo Jones learned about Andrea Palladio’s work by:

traveling to Italy with a copy of the Four Books of Architecture.

The false-perspective stage-set of the Teatro Olimpico was designed by:

Vincenzo Scamozzi

Which of the following statements is true about St. Peter’s, Rome?

Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the Piazza of St. Peter’s, which is composed of two parts.

The primary patron of art and architecture around Rome in both the 17th and 18th centuries was the:

Catholic Church

The architect of the Villa Barbaro, at Maser, was:

Andrea Palladio.

Which of the following is true about Mannerists?

They favored disharmony, imbalance, and unresolved conflicts.

The late sixteenth-century pope who began the replanning of Rome was:

Sixus V

All the following are part of Michelangelo’s Campidoglio design except:

a circular temple

Identify the true statements about Andrea Palladio’s design of the Villa Rotonda (Almerico-Capra)

It has loggias on all four fronts.

At Il Gesu, Giacomo Vignola produced clear sightlines and acoustics that allowed for preaching to be heard by

shorting both the transepts and the nave.

Which of the following statements is true of the Baroque style of architecture?

All the answers are correct.

Based on Vitruvius’s remark that Greek temples had evolved from houses, Andrea Palladio added ____ to the Villa Barbaro.

columns and a pediment

Which of the following activities was not undertaken during the time of Roman Pope Sixus V

the refurbishment of the Colosseum into a wool-spinning establishment.

Il Gesu in Rome:

All the answers are correct.

Inigo Jones’s Convent Garden was built as

a speculative development.

The unit that influenced Andrea Palladio in the construction of the arches flanked by square-headed openings at the basilica at Vicenza is the:

Serlina

In a French chateau, the corps-de-logis is the:

body of the house.

Pensionnaires were French:

architectural students studying in Rome.

The dome of Guarino Guarini’s Sindone Chapel (Chapel of the Holy Shroud) makes use of

a telescoping, layered vault of rotated polygons.

Christoper Wren’s design of St. Paul’s triple-shell dome was influenced by that of:

St.-Louis-des-Invalides.

From 1670 to 1686, Sir Christopher Wren designed ____ blank of the rebuilt burnt parish churches in London.

fifty-one

A cenotaph is a:

monument erected to someone who is not interred within it.

A leader of the Neo-Palladian movement was:

Colen Campbell.

The Chateau of Versailles began as:

a royal hunting lodge with a C-shaped plan.

The Karlskirche in Vienna included historical elements incorporated from all the following EXECPT:

None of the answers are correct.

Il Gesu in Rome was particularly influential because its design led to the development of the ____ that characterizes many central European Baroque Churches.

wall-piller

The English Neo-Palladians:

Had admiration for the works of Indigo Jones.

Under the direction of Andre Le Norte, the army drained 37,000 acres of land and diverted an entire river thirty miles to supply water for the fountains of the:

Chateau at Versailles

The most striking feature of Etienne-Louis Boullee’s design of the cenotaph for Sir Issac Newton is its

intended vast scale.

The accepted design for the east facade of the Louvre in Paris made use of:

end pavillions, a central pediment unit, and connecting stoalike wings.

Christoper Wren’s “Great Model” design for St. Paul’s Cathedral in London was rejected because it:

had strong Catholic overtones.

The design of James Gibb’s church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London was illustrated in his publication titled:

A Book of Architectureq

One of the three men who were responsible for the design of the east facade of the Louvre in Paris was

La Vau

Francesco Boromini began his career as a

stonecutter

The rampant borrowing of forms from the architectural past

is called:

eclecticism.

The façade of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank in

Vienna is composed of:

marble veneer attached by means of aluminum-

capped bolts.

In designing vaults for the Sagrada Familia, Antonio

Gaudi experimented with:

sandbags hung on ropes and covered with

canvas.

The suspension cables for the Brooklyn Bridge were:

woven by a spiderlike machine that passed

repeatedly from bank to bank.

Thomas Jefferson called his University of Virginia

campus:

an academical village.

Charles McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and

Stanford White based their design for New York City’s

Pennsylvania Station on:

Ancient Roman baths.

Joseph Maria Olbrich covered the dome of the

Secession Building with:

a laurel motif symbolic of Apollo.

The Eiffel Tower was built:

or the Paris International Exposition of 1889.

H.H. Richardson obtained the commission for Trinity

Church in Boston

by winning a design competition.

Which of the following statements is true about the

Royal Pavilion at Brighton?

It was built for the prince regent in a

combination of Indian, Islamic, and Chinese

styles.

Louis Sullivan's essay on skyscraper design is titled:

The Tall (Office) Building Artistically Considered.

The most important contribution of Louis Sullivan to

the field of architecture was to:

posit a formula for the design of the first great

American architectural invention: the skyscraper.

Hector Guimard is best known for his designs for:

Métro entrances in Paris.

One of the features of the Wainwright Building in St.

Louis is that it has

ornate terracotta spandrels under each window.

In 1855, Richard Morris Hunt established an Ecole-

modeled atelier in New York that was:

A studio space where American students could

come for architectural training.

homas Jefferson commissioned Benjamin Henry

Latrobe to Washington, D.C., to work on the

U.S. Capitol.

Chicago windows are windows that have:

large, fixed panes between operable sashes.

The first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

was:

Richard Morris Hunt.