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HTC:modern Lec 4
THE PICTURESQUE
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
04/22/2009

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List the two most important Gothic Revival buildings constructed prior to 1812:
Definition
Strawberry Hill – Walpole. And Fonthill Abbey, James Wyatt
Term
The founder of the English Garden movement is usually considered to be
Definition
CHARLES BRIDGEMAN
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List two aspects of the English picturesque garden that were early breaks with Classicism
Definition
-irregular, asymetrical design
-natural landscape (less manmade)
-had politics and culture incorporated
-man and nature equal (interest to learn from
-nature and return to nature; tabula rasa)
-informal clumps of trees
-negative wall ha-ha
-meandering winding lanes
-follies
Term
What was the nationalist reason for Great Britain to assume Gothic over Neoclassical Architecture in the first half of the 19th century?
Definition
Great Britiain was different from Europe >> protestant
Religious
Idea of association (John Locke: a work of art should be judged not just by proportions but on the sensations conjured by viewing it :: intuition)
a new value to measure architecture
Association with ideas:: art’s capacity to reinforce/introduce thoughts and impressions
Term
2 ideas that became associated with the first period of the Gothic Revival in England were
Definition

Melancholy (psychological romantic interest in sublime and death)

Medieval (chivalry, knights and castles)

Term
The castles was the principle building type that launched the first or picturesque phase of the Gothic Revival. List two good examples of this phase of Gothic Revival:
Definition
Oxford & Cambridge
Term
List two aspects of the English Picturesque landscape tradition:
Definition
ruins (triumph of time)
nature = time
Man = manmade things that decay over time and become ruins
Term
It has been said the Batty Langley’s Gothic Architecture improved was his attempt to write the equivalent of _______ for Gothic Architecture
Definition
Vitruvius
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