ARCH 2315 Exam I: Study Review Format of the Exam:

ARCH 2315
Exam I: Study Review
Part I: Identification of buildings and sites. The Identifications on this review are correct; some
identification on your daily study guide for lectures are incorrect. Follow THIS review, not the study guide
for dates, locations, architects.
Part II: Context Images: these images form the cultural context we have talked about (think SPEAR).
Part III: Study questions for both the ID and Essay questions on the Exam.
Exam Review: Monday, February 7, 5-6 pm, AG 214.
Format of the Exam:
Part I: 20 to 25 Identifications (ID), 1/2 point for each piece of information. Some Identification will be
listing or giving information. Most Identification will be of buildings and sites. In dating these buildings and
sites, you may round up or down to a year ending in “0” or in “5”. For example, Palazzo Medici dates to
1444. You may date it to 1440 or 1445, as long as the date you give is within five years of the true date.
NOTE: Some identification will be identification of motifs, definitions of words/terms, etc.
Part II: 3 Short Essays, 10 points each. Images for these questions will be taken from the IDs in Part I and
from the Context Images.
Part III: 2 Short Essays, 15 points each. Images for these questions will be taken from the IDs in Part I and
from the Context Images.
(note: point distribution may differ slightly on the final version of the exam)
EXAM REVIEW:
Monday, February 7, 5 p.m. AG 214
(our regular classroom)
I will lead this review, but you must study before you
come. I will not answer actual factual questions. We
will discuss and clarify issues from the study questions
on this review.
Dome, Florence Cathedral (Duomo)
Florence, Italy
1420
Brunelleschi
Palazzo Ruccelai
Florence, Italy
1446
Leon Battista Alberti
Palazzo Medici
Florence, Italy
1444
Bartolomeo
St. Peter’s, plan
Rome, Italy
1547
Michelangelo
St. Peter’s, plan
Rome, Italy
1506
Bramante
San Andrea, Mantua
Mantua, Italy
1471
Leon Battista Alberti
Pazzi Chapel
Florence, Italy
1441
Brunelleschi
Tempietto
Rome, Italy
1502
Bramante
House of Raphael, also known as Palazzo Caprini
Rome, Italy
1512
Bramante
Belvedere at the Vatican
Rome, Italy
1505
Bramante
Laurentian Library, vestibule
Florence, Italy
1524
Michelangelo
How is this Mannerist?
Campidoglio
Rome, Italy
1537
Michelangelo
St. Paul’s Covent Garden
London, England
1631
Inigo Jones
Queen’s House,
Greenwich, England
(directly across river from London)
1616
Inigo Jones
Place Royale, Place des Vosges
Paris, France
1605
Unknown
Chambord
Loire Valley, France
1519
Unknown
Above: Chateau Blois, Staircase by Francis Ist
Blois, France
1515
Unknown
FYI:
Right: the
American version
of the Staircase.
Note it’s a mirror
image.
Biltmore Estates,
designed by
Richard Morris
Hunt for G.W.
Vanderbilt in 1892
San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice, Italy
1565
Andrea Palladio
Villa Barbaro
Maser, Italy in the Veneto
1557
Andrea Palladio
Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda)
Vicenza, Italy, in the Veneto
1566
Andrea Palladio
Palazzo Porto-Breganza
1540
Vicenza, Italy
Andrea Palladio
Examples of
Mannerism from:
Palazzo del Te
Mantua, Italy
1524
Giulio Romano
The Five Roman Orders. Be able to name and draw each of these.
Context Images
Dome, Florence Cathedral,
section cut showing pointed
arches and double shell
construction.
San Giamano, Italy, hill town in the region of Tuscany.
Note: This is not a castle fortress; each tower is the residence
of a single, wealthy family. The town is surrounded by a
defensive wall, and within the walls there is a combination of
single story and two-story residences and shops, along with
these towers, each the residence of a single, wealthy family.
House of Raphael (Palazzo Caprini)
Diagram of proportions that regulate the composition of
the elevation.
Tempietto, plan
Villa Saraceno, section and plan
Villa Rotunda, section and plan
View of a villa in the Veneto. How is this image
related to the idea of ‘sacred agriculture’ in our
readings?
An example of trade during the Renaissance.
This one shows the trade of the city of Venice
Why are these two images important to the
understanding of how the Renaissance
occurred?
Centers of Learning
during the Middle Ages
St. Paul’s Covent Garden, showing larger urban
plan that was originally intended.
Vitruvian Man
Place des Vosges, Paris
Study Questions:
In all of these questions, apply ‘spear’ where appropriate. In addition, compare the images in this review
and contemplate of the ways that architectural ideas evolved during the Renaissance.
1. Can you explain the political and economic conditions that allowed the Renaissance to occur?
2. What role did Medieval centers of learning play in the Renaissance?
3. Who was Vitruvius, when did he live, and what is his significance?
4. What is the significance of Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man”?
5. Why did the Renaissance happen in Italy?
6. Using the images in this review, can you trace and explain the development of the Renaissance Palazzo in Italy?
7. What is the structural and symbolic significance of the Florence Cathedral?
8. Can you name and describe the five ancient building types?
9. What is a precedent? Can you identify precedents for the buildings we studied?
10. Can you ACCURATELY DRAW the five orders and identify the elements that constitute each order?
11. Can you write a formal analysis of the buildings shown in this review?
12. What is the Veneto? What part did it play in the development of the Palladian Villa?
13. What is the significance of the Palladian villa in relation to the ancient villa as described by Pliny?
14. Who was Pliny?
15. What is the symbolic significance of the Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda)?
16. What is the significance of St. Paul’s Covent Garden?
17. What is the significance of the Tempietto?
18. Can you compare Bramante’s plan for St. Peter’s to that of Michelangelo’s?
19. As Renaissance architectural ideas spread to Northern Europe, in what way were they adapted to regional traditions?
20. Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, Micahelangelo -- what is the significance of the order of these names in relation to the Renaissance
works that we studied?
21. Can you name, identify, and DRAW the several MOTIFS of classical architecture that we have studied thus far?
22. What is mercantile capitalism? Why was it important to what we have studied thus far?
23. What is Mannerism? Can you define it and give examples?
24. What is “formal analysis”?
25. Regarding the reading on the Renaissance villa, what is the idea of “sacred agriculture”
26. What is the architectural and symbolic significance of Inigo Jones’ St. Paul’s Covent Garden?
These are only some of the questions that you should consider as you study. Read your textbook carefully,
as well as your class notes, in anticipation of other questions.