History of Arch Quiz 04

An arch having its springing line higher than the line of the mouldings.

Stilted Arch

It is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world.

Windsor Castle

An arcaded story in a church, between the nave arches and the clerestory

Triforium

An underground chamber or vault used as a burial place, beneath the main floor of a church.

Crypt

It is an enclosed quadrangle or yard, especially one surrounded by a cloister

Garth

A term derived from the word "barocco" which means and irregular pearl.

Baroque

It is a chamber or building often reached through the cloister, in which the chapter, or heads of monastic bodies, assemble to transact business.

Chapter House

Which of the following examples is not part of the Baroque Style?

Catherine Palace

A projecting block or spur of stone carved with foliage to decorate the raking lines formed by the angles of spires and canopies.

Crocket

It is the tallest church in the world with a steeple measuring 161.53 meters.

Ulm Cathedral

It is one of the examples of Renaissance Architecture Churches which is designed by Christopher Wren.

St. Paul's Cathedral

A covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.

Cloister

It is a large porch or narthex, originally for penitents, at the west end of a church.

Galilee

A circular window with stained glass and decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.

Rose Window

A vault having ribs, liernes, or tiercerons arranged in a star-shaped pattern.

Star Vault

A compound vault for covering a triangular space, formed by the intersection of the three barrel vaults.

Tripartite Vault

Known as the coronation Church of England and the burial place of its Kings and Honored Dead is the _____

Westminster Church

A rib vault divided into four parts by intersecting diagonal ribs.

Quadripartite Vault

It is the largest medieval cathedral in Europe with the exception of St. Peter, Rome.

Seville Cathedral

It was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 and with a Latin Cross and the dome of the transept is octagonal and located in Burgos Spain.

Burgos Cathedral

De Architectura or Ten Books on Architecture is written by ____.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Who designed the dome of Florence Cathedral?

Filippo Brunelleschi

Who is the Architect of Riccardi Palace

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo

The architect who restored the design to Greek Cross and designed the dome.

Michelangelo

This refers to Spanish Baroque Style of elaborate sculptural architecture.

Churrigueresque

A circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery.

Whispering Gallery

Who is the architect of Villa Rotonda?

Andrea Palladio

Who designed the piazza of St. Peter's Cathedral?

Bernini

It is known as the architecture of the curve line.

Baroque

This church is considered as the tallest medieval structure in the world and only having 4ft deep of foundations.

Salisbury Cathedral

The most decorative feature in a Spanish Church made of wood, stone or alabaster.

Retablo

The part of a pier that rises to take the thrust of a flying buttress.

Buttress Pier

An inclined bar of masonry carried on a segmental arch and transmitting an outward and downward thrust from a roof or vault to a solid buttress that through its mass transforms the thrust into a vertical one.

Flying Buttress.

A subordinate vertical structure terminating in a pyramid or spire, esp. in Gothic Architecture to add weight to a buttress pier.

Pinnacle

A Early English is a gothic style equivalent to high gothic in France is also called?

Lancet

One of the phases in French Gothic which is also known as Flamboyant Style

Tertiare

It is the largest cathedral in France, large enough to fit two Notre Dame of Paris.

Amiens Cathedral

It is listed a UNESCO World Heritage Site by in 1979, which called it "the high point of French Gothic art" and a "masterpiece"

Chartres Cathedral

Which of the following Cathedral has the highest Gothic vaults in a completed church?

Milan Cathedral

A relatively small, usually foliated ornament terminating the peak of a spire or pinnacle.

Finial

A slender spire rising from the ridge of a roof esp. one above the crossing of a Gothic Church or pinnacle.

Fleche

The term used in reproach or a pejorative description to this type of style or called barbaric.

Gothic

Amiens Cathedral

Identify the part E of vault

Liernes

Identify the part B of vault

Ogive

Notre Dame Cathedral France

Florence Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral

Westminster Abbey

Catherine Palace