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Q: The gardens of Blenheim Palace were laid out by: A) Lancelot Brown. B) Horace Walpole. C) William Kent. D) Lord Burlington. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Sir William Chambers's Somerset House was built: A) to exhibit Lord Burlington's collection of Neo-Classical paintings. B) to serve as headquarters for the Neo-Palladians. C) as a residence and workplace for Robert Adam. D) to centralize the British government offices. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The plan for the gardens at Versailles by Le Ntre makes use of: A) one straight avenue. B) dense forested areas. C) streams of water. D) obelisks and columns. E) formal flowerbeds.

Q: The designer who did NOT work at Versailles was: A) J. H. Mansart. B) Louis Le Vau. C) Andre Le Ntre. D) Francois Mansart. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: Christopher Wren's design of St. Paul's triple-shell dome was influenced by that of: A) St. Peter's in Rome. B) St.-Louis-des-Invalides. C) Ste. Marie de la Visitation. D) St. Stephen Walbrook. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: From 1670 to 1686, Sir Christopher Wren designed ________ of the rebuilt burnt parish churches in London. A) thirty-four B) fifty-one C) fifteen D) forty-three E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Christopher Wren's "Great Model" design for St. Paul's Cathedral in London was rejected because it: A) had strong Catholic overtones. B) drew too much on French models. C) had too much Gothic detailing. D) rejected the ideas of Inigo Jones, Wren's predecessor. E) drew too much on French models and had too much Gothic detailing.

Q: All of the following appear at Sir Roger Pratt's Coleshill in Berkshire EXCEPT: A) a water table. B) an entry frontispiece. C) a heavy cornice. D) a rooftop balustrade. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The designer of Blenheim Palace was: A) William Talman. B) Sir John Vanbrugh. C) Sir Christopher Wren. D) Roger Pratt. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The design of James Gibbs's church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London was illustrated in his publication titled: A) A Book of Architecture. B) English Church Architecture. C) Four Books of Architecture. D) Palladio and Palladianism. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Discuss Baroque architecture as an instrument of the Counter-Reformation.

Q: Discuss the work of one of the following: a. Francesco Borromini b. Gian Lorenzo Bernini c. Guarino Guarini

Q: The church of Die Wies is the work of: A) the Asam brothers. B) the Zimmermann brothers. C) the Dientzenhofer family. D) the Neumann brothers. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Compare the German interpretation of the Baroque as exemplified by the Zimmerman brothers and the French interpretation as exemplified by Francois Mansart.

Q: One of the three men who were responsible for the design of the east faade of the Louvre in Paris was: A) Guarino Guarini. B) Francesco Borromini. C) Gian Lorenzo Bernini. D) Sebastian Serlio. E) Le Vau.

Q: Compare the work of James Gibbs to that of Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Q: The accepted design for the east faade of the Louvre in Paris made use of: A) end pavilions, a central pedimented unit, and connecting stoalike wings. B) triplet columns, end pedimented units, and a central stoalike bay. C) paired pilasters, a central pedimented unit, and tower-like wings. D) a continuous file of giant-order columns. E) a set of alternating Corinthian and Ionic columns.

Q: Distinctive interior features of Francois Mansart's early designs for the church of the Val-de-Grce were: A) illusionistically painted stucco vaults. B) telescoping vertical spaces generated by a series of truncated low-slung domes. C) wall-pillars. D) warped ribbed vaults. E) alternating sets of Corinthian and Ionic columns atop high pedestals.

Q: In a French chteau, the corps-de-logis is the: A) group of servants who manage the estate. B) grand room beyond the foyer. C) body of the house. D) house together with its many outbuildings. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The Chteau of Versailles began as: A) a royal hunting lodge with a C-shaped plan. B) the property of the king's finance minister. C) a place for ftes, or grand parties. D) a royal palace, which burned and was replaced. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The late sixteenth-century pope who began the replanning of Rome was: A) Sixtus IV. B) Nicholas V. C) Sixtus V. D) Julius II. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: At S. Peter's, Bernini did all of the following EXCEPT: A) begin construction of two bell towers. B) add the giant forecourt colonnade. C) decorate the interior. D) build the dome. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: The plan of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, consists of: A) an undulating oval. B) a six-pointed star. C) a circle. D) based on that of Il Ges. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The Piazza Navona was originally: A) the ancient Roman Stadium of Domitian. B) the ancient Roman Forum of Nerva. C) the site of a lake in front of Nero's Golden House. D) a botanical garden near the Palace of Augustus. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Francesco Borromini was involved in the design of all of the following buildings EXCEPT: A) S. Agnese. B) S. Ivo. C) S. Maria della Pace. D) S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: All of the following are part of the Piazza del Popolo EXCEPT: A) identical domed churches. B) a central obelisk. C) an oval plan. D) a set of viewing terraces. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The dome of Guarino Guarini's Sindone Chapel makes use of: A) ribs like those seen in Moorish Spain. B) a telescoping, layered vault of rotated polygons. C) wall pillars. D) a wooden superstructure covered with stucco. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The Karlskirche in Vienna included historical elements incorporated from all of the following EXCEPT: A) S. Agnese in the Piazza Navonna. B) the Pantheon in Rome. C) Trajan's Column. D) Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. E) None of the answers are correct.

Q: Christoph Dientzenhofer designed the church of St. Nicholas on the Lesser Side in Prague to have a: A) triple-shell dome. B) longitudinal plan with deep wall-pillars set between chapels below and galleries above. C) binding arch. D) dome on a drum rising above a pedimented portico flanked by twin campaniles. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Inigo Jones's Covent Garden was built as: A) a replica of the principal piazza in Palladio's Vicenza. B) a speculative development. C) a setting for performing operas. D) an amenity for Buckingham Palace. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: Il Ges in Rome was particularly influential because its design led to the development of the ________ that characterizes many central European Baroque churches. A) volute B) wall-pillar C) nave D) cross-in-square E) cella

Q: Write an architectural biography on one of the following: a. Brunelleschi b. Alberti c. Bramante d. Palladio e. Michelangelo

Q: Explain the differences in Renaissance and Mannerist architecture in Italy.

Q: Discuss the features of Andrea Palladio's villa designs in the Veneto.

Q: Discuss the architecture of the chteaux in the Loire Valley as a combination of latent medieval and arriving Renaissance influences.

Q: Discuss Inigo Jones's English interpretation of the work of Andrea Palladio.

Q: Il Ges in Rome: A) was built as a preaching church. B) has a faade composition modeled on Alberti's S. Maria Novella. C) has a high degree of faade three-dimensionality. D) was built as the mother church of the Jesuit order. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: The false-perspective stage-set of the Teatro Olimpico was designed by: A) Vincenzo Scamozzi. B) Andrea Palladio. C) Jacopo Sansovino. D) Michele Sanmichele. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: A sense of security is given to Jacopo Sansovino's La Zecca by means of: A) cyclopean masonry. B) massive iron gates. C) heavy rustication, including at the columns. D) enormous crenelated towers. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: In Italian Renaissance gardens, an alle and a bosco are: A) a paved path and a pool of water, respectively. B) a shaft of space and a dense planting of trees, respectively. C) a fish pond and elaborately pruned shrubs, respectively. D) a grid of trees and a circular open space, respectively. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: To the rear of the Chteau, Chenonceau, there is: A) a fortified tower and a campanile. B) a bridge, which later became the base for a grand dining hall. C) a royal hunting estate, which later was turned into a royal garden. D) a huge, glazed salon overlooking garden parterres. E) a grid of trees and a circular open space.

Q: The first two architects to rebuild the medieval Louvre Palace were: A) Phillibert de l'Orme and Jean Bullant. B) Leonardo da Vinci and Pierre Lescot. C) Jacques Lemercier and Jean Bullant. D) Pierre Lescot and Jacques Lemercier. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The Place des Vosges is: A) surrounded by gardens that act as a barrier between it and urban residences. B) surrounded by regularized residential faades, connected by a continuous ground-level arcade. C) a court fronted by multiple churches. D) a square with a bi-level arcade and tall, central pavilions at each side. E) built in a distinctively French manner of pairs surmounted by pavilion roofs.

Q: The architect of Wollaton Hall was: A) Sebastian Serlio. B) Andrea Palladio. C) Inigo Jones. D) Robert Smythson. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Inigo Jones learned about Andrea Palladio's work by: A) studying with Italian architects who had come to England to work for the Crown. B) traveling to Italy with a copy of the Four Books of Architecture. C) writing his own version of the Four Books of Architecture. D) assembling a huge library of Italian architectural publications. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Inigo Jones's Banqueting House at Whitehall in London is: A) influenced by the designs in Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture. B) an example of the English emphasis on the use of triumphal-arch forms. C) based on Donato Bramante's banqueting hall that overlooks the Belvedere Court in Rome. D) a classicization of the traditional, medieval English Great Hall. E) an example of the English emphasis on the surface texture of the stone faade.

Q: A prominent feature of Donato Bramante's House of Raphael was: A) a rusticated base. B) a columned piano nobile. C) an arcaded ground floor. D) that it followed the model of the ancient Roman insula or apartment house. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: The design of the Villa Madama was inspired by: A) Bramante's House of Raphael. B) the villa of Pliny the Elder. C) the Villa Medici in Fiesole. D) the Roman villa rustica. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The Palazzo del Tѐ, Mantua, was designed for: A) Lorenzo di Medici. B) Federico Gonzaga. C) Cardinal Giulio d Medici. D) Federigo da Montefeltro. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Michelangelo's Laurentian Library is part of the complex that includes: A) the Uffizzi in Florence. B) S. Lorenzo in Florence. C) the Ducal Palace in Urbino. D) S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: All of the following are part of Michelangelo's Campidoglio design EXCEPT: A) the Palace of the Senators. B) a trapezoidal piazza. C) a circular temple. D) an equestrian statue. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: The Sforza Chapel in Rome is found in the church of: A) S. Maria Maggiore. B) St. Peter's. C) S. Lorenzo. D) S. Maria in Aracoeli. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Andrea Palladio's villa designs include all of the following EXCEPT the Villa: A) Rotonda. B) Barbaro. C) Foscari. D) Trissino. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: At the Rucellai Palace faade, Alberti used: A) the nearby Medici Palace as a model. B) twin cortile, or courtyards. C) Brunelleschi as a consultant. D) superimposed Doric and Corinthian orders. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: The small book titled The Prince was written by: A) Brunelleschi. B) Machiavelli. C) Alberti. D) Lorenzo di Medici. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The plan for Alberti's church of S. Andrea in Mantua was that of: A) the Pantheon. B) the ancient Roman Basilica of Constantine. C) the Maison Carr. D) St. Peter's. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The faade of Alberti's church of S. Maria Novella: A) is capped by a Gothic form. B) became a prototype repeated by Renaissance designers. C) includes scrolls that display the shed roofs of the side aisles. D) is dominated geometrically by the use of the circle. E) has a four-story central bay.

Q: The faade design of the church of S. Francesco in Rimini is based on: A) Old. St. Peter's. B) S. Maria Novella in Florence. C) the Pantheon. D) the nearby Roman Arch of Augustus. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Based on evidence in his sketchbooks, the principal architectural problem that concerned Leonardo da Vinci, like it did the Renaissance designers, was the: A) mixture used by the ancient Romans to make concrete. B) system of ancient Roman vaulting. C) central-plan church. D) urban palazzo. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The distinctive feature of Donato Bramante's S. Maria presso S. Satiro is the: A) use of superimposed orders. B) recreation of vaulting like that in an ancient Roman basilica. C) inclusion of an aedicule like that in Old St. Peter's. D) illusionistic manipulation of the chancel wall. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Donato Bramante's plan for Tempietto was intended to: A) be at the center of the ancient Forum Romanum. B) have a circular temple into a circular cloister. C) be in the forecourt at St. Peter's. D) have a two-story cylinder capped by a hemispherical dome. E) have a tomb at its western end.

Q: Donato Bramante's Belvedere Court was: A) planned for the space in front of St. Peter's. B) based on the design of the Canopus at Hadrian's Villa. C) a great exterior space adjacent to St. Peter's. D) designed as a garden for the Roman mayor. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The medieval inspiration for Brunelleschi's Florence Cathedral dome is revealed by its: A) concealed flying buttresses. B) pointed-arch profile. C) exposed ribs. D) Gothic ornamentation. E) Corinthian columns.

Q: The church of S. Spirito in Florence illustrates Brunelleschi's use of: A) the ideal Renaissance central plan. B) groin vaults. C) the system of modular planning. D) the ancient Roman system of measurement. E) Gothic forms.

Q: To frame, or set off, architectural elements on the Pazzi Chapel's interior, Brunelleschi used: A) marbleized plaster. B) gray pietra serena. C) polychromatic mosaic tiles. D) carrara marble. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: To give his Medici Palace in Florence a fortified appearance, Michelozzo used: A) a moat. B) crenelations. C) corner turrets. D) rustication. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: Leon Battista Alberti's Della pittura was dedicated to: A) Luca della Robbia. B) Ghiberti. C) Masaccio. D) Donatello. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: Alberti modeled his De re aedificatoria, or On Building, on: A) Vitruvius's The Ten Books of Architecture. B) his close study of classical ruins in Florence. C) an unfinished treatise by Brunelleschi. D) Pliny the Elder's On Architecture. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The king of the Aztecs when Hernn Corts appeared with his small army was: A) Huitzilopochtli. B) Pacal. C) Moctezuma. D) Quetzalcatl. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: The talud and tablero were the: A) dual aspects of the Maya god Tlaloc. B) interlocking Mayan calendars. C) Mayan names for summer and winter. D) Mayan names for Venus and Mars. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Palenque's Temple of the Inscriptions, which sits atop a pyramid, is unusual for having: A) a moat around it. B) a circular observatory atop it. C) an interior tomb below it at the level of the pyramid's first stage. D) an interior skull rack. E) All of the answers are correct.

Q: Compare the Native American architecture of the Great Plains with that of the Southeast and the Southwest.

Q: Compare the planning of Monte Albn with that of Teotihucan.

Q: Discuss the features of the architecture that was prevalent during the rule of the Inca Empire.

Q: Discuss the effects of materials and construction methods on the mosque designs of the Great Mosque in Mali and the Bobo-Dioulasso Mosque in Burkina Faso.

Q: The Vitruvian Man is: A) an ideal ancient Roman man. B) a man's figure inscribed inside a circle and a square. C) an ideal Renaissance citizen. D) a man's figure seen in dramatic perspective. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Inca cyclopean stone masonry made use of: A) small crushed stones as mortar. B) crushed hemp as mortar. C) no mortar. D) a mortar made from river sand imported from the Atlantic coast. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Masaccio's The Trinity: A) demonstrates Brunelleschi's method of linear perspective. B) depicts the ideal Renaissance central-plan church. C) depicts the Father, Son, and Holy spirit. D) demonstrates the Renaissance technique of sfumato. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: A Libyan qasr is a: A) small mosque. B) steep-walled tent. C) storage fortress. D) type of indigenous courtyard house. E) None of the answers is correct.

Q: Brunelleschi set off for Rome after losing a competition to design a new set of bronze doors for the baptistery of Florence Cathedral to: A) Masaccio. B) Donatello. C) Leonardo da Vinci. D) Ghiberti. E) All of the answers are correct.