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HTC:modern Lec4
Picteresque
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Architecture
Undergraduate 2
04/22/2009

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Term
List the two most important Gothic Revival buildings constructed prior to 1812:
Definition
a. Strawberry Hill
b. Fonthill Abbey
Term
The founder of the English Garden movement is usually considered to be
Definition
Charles Bridgemen
Term
List two aspects of the English picturesque garden that were early breaks with Classicism
Definition
1. Asymmetry
2. More natural landscapes, natural forms, and meandering paths
Term
What was the nationalist reason for Great Britain to assume Gothic over Neoclassical Architecture in the first half
of the 19th Century?
Definition
Ignorance of the Gothic Ruins which allowed them to cast the Gothic style as true English roots and Protestant values
Term
Two ideas that became associated with the first period of the Gothic Revival in England were:
Definition
1. Melancholy
2. Medieval values
Term
The ______________________ 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
Manor or estate house
Term
It has been said the Batty Langleyʼs Gothic Architecture improved was his attempt to write the equivalent of
______________________ for Gothic Architecture.
Definition
Vitruvius
Term
List two aspects of the English Picturesque landscape tradition:
Definition
Ruins (triumph of time)
Nature=time vs. Man=manmade things that decay over time and become ruins
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