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ARC 318K Exam 3
Buildings
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
04/29/2013

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St. Peter's Basilica - Rome

319-330

 Early Christian Architecture

-built on St. Peter's grave
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Santa Constanza - Rome

350

Early Christian Architecture

-mausoleum for his daughter
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Theodoric Palace - Ravenna

520

Early Christian Architecture

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Tomb of King Theodoric - Ravenna

526

Early Christian Architecture

-mansion of goth king of italy
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Hagia Sophia - Constantinople, Turkey

532-537

Anthemius of Tralles & Isidor of Miletus

The Christian East

-was world's largest church for a while, centrally planned
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San Vitale - Ravenna

526-548

The Christian East

-octogonal plan
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Church of the Intercession - Vladimir, Russia

1166

The Christian East

-has an onion dome on a tall drum
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St. Sophia - Kiev, Ukraine

1200

The Christian East

-cross and square plan -many apses
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The Dome of the Rock - Jerusalem

691-692

Early Islamic Architecture

-built around the foundation stone of the islamic faith
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Great Mosque - Damascus, Syria

705-715

Early Islamic Architecture 

-built over basilica of st. john baptist
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Great Mosque - Samarra, Iraq

848-852

Early Islamic Architecture 

-was largest mosque in world for a while -spiralling minaret
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Great Mosque at Cordoba - Spain

785-987

Early Islamic Architecture

-arcaded hypostyle hall -alternating red and white voussoirs
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Alhambra - Granada, Spain

13th-14th Century

The Triumph of Islamic Architecture

-ornate geometric decoration on the palace
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Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent - Istanbul, Turkey

1550-57

Koca Sinan

The Triumph of Islamic Architecture 

-resembles hagia sophia but makes it better -blended byzantine and islamic elements
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Isfahan Mosque - Iran

1611-1630

Masjid-i-shah

The Triumph of Islamic Architecture

-covered in mosaic tiles -use of iwan
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Taj Mahal - Agra, India

1631-47

The Triumph of Islamic Architecture

-built as a monument to signify his wife's death
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Gate @ Monastery of Lorsch - Germany

770

Carolingian Renaissance and Medieval Europe

-roman models were studied as a basic concept of ornament
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Palatine Chapel - Aachen, Germany

796-805

Carolingian Renaissance and Medieval Europe

-holds the remains of charlemagne -centrally-planned -combines elements from different time periods
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St. Gall Monastery Plan - Switzerland

820

Carolingian Renaissance and Medieval Europe

-plan for a benedictine monastic compound
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Cathedral, Baptistery, and Tower - Pisa, Italy

1063

Carolingian and Medieval Europe

-combines romanesque and byzantine styles -one of main centers of medieval art
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Cathedral of Chartres - France

1194-1230

Gothic Architecture 

-contrasting spires in the front w/ three significant facades
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Salisbury Cathedral - England

1220-58; Tower 1334-8

Gothic Architecture

-built within a generation in one style of architecture - Early English Gothic -double transept
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King's College Chapel - Cambridge

1446-1515

Gothic Architecture

-fan vaulting
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Duomo - Florence, Italy

Filippo Brunelleschi 

1242

Quattrocento Italy: The Early Renaissance

-high octagonal dome without use of buttresses
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Medici Palace - Florence

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo

1444

Quattrocento Italy: The Early Renaissance

-classicism on human scale -rusticated to finer masonry with string courses between floors
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S. Maria Novella - Florence

Leon Battista Alberti

1456-70

Quatrocento Italy: The Early Renaissance

combined classical elements with the existing medieval elements of the facade
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S. Andrea - Mantua

Leon Battista Alberti

1472-94

Quattrocento Italy: The Early Renaissance

-layers classical elements on the facade
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Tempietto - Rome

Donato Bramante

1502

Cinquecento Italy

-signals shift to more personal, richer classical ideals -tholos, one of most copied buildings -curved classical elements
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the rebuilding of St. Peter's - Rome

Michelangelo Buonarroti

1546

Cinquecento Italy

-rich surface, one of most important and largest churches int he world
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Porto Pia - Rome

Michelangelo Buonarroti 

1561-65

Cinquecento Italy

-layered elements of architecture at many different scales - defines his own personal style
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La Rotunda - Vicenza

Andrea Palladio

1556-57

Cinquecento Italy

 

-roman temple form on all four sides of the building facade
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S. Andrea al Quirnale - Rome

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

1658-70

Baroque

-oval form with manipulated elements of the classical form
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S. Carlo alla Quattro Fontane -Rome

Francesco Borromini

1637 -1665

Baroque

 

-sculptural facade and interior with curved forms
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Karlskirche -Vienna

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

1716-25

Baroque

 

-facade is a false front -asymmetrically arranged on the interior -transforms baroque out of italy
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Vierzehnheiligen -Bamberg, Germany

Johann Balthasar Neumann

1744

Baroque

-interior is made of interlinked ovals with no distinction between elements (rococo)
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