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Renaissance Architecture Exam Questions and Answers Rated 100%
renaissance - Answers the revival of arts and high culture under the influence of classical models, which began in Italy in the 14th century and spread throughout most of Europe by the end of the 16th; the period during which this was...
Renaissance Architecture Exam Questions and Answers Rated 100%
renaissance - Answers the revival of arts and high culture under the influence of classical models, which
began in Italy in the 14th century and spread throughout most of Europe by the end of the 16th; the
period during which this was in progress
neoplatonic
plato: contemplation of physical allowed the mind to be better to understand spiritual beauty
eve
humanism - Answers freq. with capital initial. a European intellectual movement or climate of thought
from the 14th and to the 16th century which was characterized in scholarship by the attentiveness to
Classical Latin (later greek), in neolatin and vernacular literature by the creative imitation of ancient
texts, in education and public life by the promotion of some or all of the wide range of cultural ideals
which these texts were supposed to transmit, and in the find and applied arts by creative response to
Roman and Greek artifacts or principles
Michelangelo's creation of Adam, 1511, on the ceiling of the sistine chapel - Answers painted during the
renaissance when religion played a dominant role in society
chapter in the Bible genesis: "God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him"
importance of their fingers touching/the touch movement
early renaissance architecture - Answers inspiration from classical architecture
patronage
architect as profession
renaissance - Answers rationality
, use of perspective
Marcus Vitruvius pollio (vitruvius) - Answers roman engineer and architect
lived in the first century B.C.E
wrote de aedificatora, or the ten books on architecture, dedicated to the emperor Augustus
only ancient text of its kind to survive intact
Why is he so important to understanding the developments of the Renaissance?
1. becomes source or understanding classical proportions and design
2. manuscript rediscovered in 14th century, provided the basis for Leon Battista alberts de re
aedificatoria in 1486
first printed edition appeared in the later 15th century, with Italia translations by 1520s
vitruvius: the ten books on architecture - Answers three requirements:
FIRMITAS: durability
UTILITAS: usefulness
VENUSTAS: beauty
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) vitruvian man - Answers exemplar of renaissance art
drawing of ideal propositions of the human figure according to vitruvius treatise
human body proportioned according to divine ratios
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