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ARCH2008 – Holmquist Quizzes 1-3 QUIZ 1 Leon Battista Alberti had no formal training as an architect, but instead had apprenticed as a goldsmith. FALSE Humanism was a cultural movement in the 14th and 15th centuries that centered on recovering aspects of ancient Greco-Roman learning, wisdom and culture, and claiming a new dignity and worth for human aspirations, knowledge and life in the world. TRUE In building the dome of the Florence Cathedral, Brunelleschi had to invent a way for the dome to support itself during construction because it was too expensive to build falsework, or a temporary supporting structure made out of timber. TRUE The courtyard of the typical Florentine palazzo referred to the atrium of an ancient Roman house, and was an important social and political space that connected the private realm of the household with the public realm of the city. TRUE In his Foundling Hospital, Brunelleschi's innovative use of single Corinthian columns to support Roman arches is not an example of 'invention'. FALSE In the early Italian Renaissance, architects could only read about ancient Roman architecture because there were no ruins they could see for themselves. FALSE Invention for Leon Battista Alberti meant to take existing elements and combine them into a new composition. TRUE When Leon Battista Alberti wrote that the carpenter is an instrument in the hands of the architect, he meant that only the architect could know what was necessary to construct a building. FALSE In 15th-century Florence, wealthy citizens such as Giovanni Rucellai were reluctant to improve the public realm of the city by constructing very expensive, beautiful and dignified facades for their private palaces. FALSE
In the early Italian Renaissance, the underlying order of the world was understood to be mathematical and geometric, and this order was made legible – able to be seen – in architecture through the use of geometry. TRUE QUIZ 2 Pietra serena was the name of the unique, white marble used in Florence by architects such as Michelangelo and Brunelleschi FALSE Michelangelo's dome for St. Peter's basilica used a similar rib structure as Brunelleschi's dome, but its span was only 3/4 the size of the Florence Duomo. FALSE Sebastiano Serlio's treatise the Seven Books of Architecture included examples of how architects could use linear perspective to construct illusionistic stage scenery for theaters. TRUE Donato Bramante had originally intended the courtyard surrounding San Pietro in Montorio, or the 'Tempietto', to feature a series of rectilinear arcades modeled on Brunelleschi's 'Foundling Hospital'. FALSE In his treatise, the Four Books of Architecture, Palladio was not interested in depicting merely what his buildings looked like as they had been built, but rather demonstrating the underlying geometric order of his compositions. TRUE The Yingzao Fashi was a Chinese architectural treatise that, similar to Alberti's On the Art of Building in Ten Books, sought to explain the theoretical significance of buildings in China. FALSE In the vestibule of the Laurentian Library, Michelangelo interpreted conventional Roman architectural elements in ways that made them more sculptural, and more like aspects of the human body than idealized geometric figures. TRUE In both Ming Dynasty China and Aztec Tenochtitlán, rectangular geometry in architecture likely symbolized the earth, and architecture provided an important point of ritual contact with the 'divine' realm of the heavens or gods. TRUE The Protestant Reformation had virtually no effect on the development of architecture in Renaissance In his villas, Andrea Palladio invented a new architectural type that combined the agricultural landscape and architectural structures into an idealized, harmonious whole. TRUE
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