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The Italian architect and theorist Palladio was instrumental in developing the architectural style known as __________.
Palladio lived and worked around Venice in the mid-sixteenth century, constructing a series of large villas and important buildings. Much of Palladio's work harkened back to styles prominent in Ancient rome, as he created buildings with lots of columns, large colonnades, and domes. His influential architectural textbook, The Four Books of Architecture, helped spread these ideas in the architectural movement known as neo-classicalism.
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Who was the Renaissance architect whose guidebook and personal neoclassical style was widely influential during the Enlightenment?
The Italian architect Andrea Palladio was well known for his own buildings in his native Venice, but gained greater fame for the work of architectural theory he composed in 1570, The Four Books of Architecture. Drawing on Greek and Roman influences, Palladio called for symmetry, domes, columns, and grand spaces. Each of these elements would become hallmarks of neoclassical architecture during the eighteenth century.
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A key difference between churches built after the Protestant Reformation and those before the Protestant Reformation in Protestant areas is that __________.
Protestant theology greatly changed church architecture in Northern Europe after the sixteenth century. Catholic churches, even for the tiniest, poorest parishes, featured ornate statuary and imagery before the Reformation. The Protestant-built churches, by contrast, were much less ornate, featuring fewer images, with altars creating less of a barrier between clergy and congregants.
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In an arch, the central piece of masonry that allows all the pressure to be placed throughout the arch is called __________.
An arch is able to remain in its appropriate position because of the way that pressure is placed throughout the entire arch. Pressure can only be appropriately distributed because of the placement of the keystone. The keystone is the central stone in an arch, which is shaped in order to push the weight down through every piece of stone.
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What technological discovery (or rediscovery) was necessary for the completion of the dome atop Florence's Il Duomo in 1436?
The rediscovery of concrete was the key to completing the dome atop Il Duomo. Filippo Brunelleschi found the lost recipe for concrete, a recipe that was lost in the Middle Ages; prior to the Middle Ages, concrete was used often by the Ancient Romans.
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The architecture of the Renaissance saw a resurgence of features from the architecture of which ancient civilization?
Renaissance architecture made use of attributes of Ancient Roman architecture. Namely, Renaissance architects utilized Ancient Roman column types, such as Doric, Ionic, Tuscan, Composite, and Corinthian, often used decoratively rather than structurally.
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A _____________ is a wedge-shaped block used in the construction of an arch.
The "voussoir" is a wedge-shaped block that makes up a true arch.
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