ARCH 2315Exam I: Study ReviewPart 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, Italy1420Brunelleschi

Palazzo RuccelaiFlorence, Italy1446Leon Battista Alberti

Palazzo MediciFlorence, Italy1444Bartolomeo

St. Peter’s, planRome, Italy1547Michelangelo

St. Peter’s, planRome, Italy1506Bramante

San Andrea, MantuaMantua, Italy1471Leon Battista Alberti

Pazzi ChapelFlorence, Italy1441Brunelleschi

TempiettoRome, Italy1502Bramante

Belvedere at the VaticanRome, Italy1505Bramante

House of Raphael, also known as Palazzo CapriniRome, Italy1512Bramante

Laurentian Library, vestibuleFlorence, Italy1524Michelangelo How is this Mannerist?

CampidoglioRome, Italy1537Michelangelo

St. Paul’s Covent GardenLondon, England1631Inigo Jones

Queen’s House,Greenwich, England (directly across river from London)1616Inigo Jones

ChambordLoire Valley, France1519Unknown

Place Royale, Place des VosgesParis, France1605Unknown

San Giorgio MaggioreVenice, Italy1565Andrea Palladio

Above: Chateau Blois, Staircase by Francis IstBlois, France1515Unknown

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

Villa BarbaroMaser, Italy in the Veneto1557Andrea Palladio

Villa Capra (Villa Rotunda)Vicenza, Italy, in the Veneto1566Andrea Palladio

Examples of Mannerism from:Palazzo del TeMantua, Italy1524Giulio Romano

Palazzo Porto-Breganza1540Vicenza, ItalyAndrea Palladio

The Five Roman Orders. Be able to name and draw each of these.

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.

Dome, Florence Cathedral, section cut showing pointed arches and double shell construction.

Context Images

Tempietto, plan

House of Raphael (Palazzo Caprini)Diagram of proportions that regulate the composition of the elevation.

Villa Rotunda, section and plan

Villa Saraceno, 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

Vitruvian Man

St. Paul’s Covent Garden, showing larger urban plan that was originally intended.

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.