Chinese Elements
Japanese Elements
Italian Architectural Elements
Styles and Influences
Greek
100
A multi-level building; each floor with specific ceremonial purposes. The roof of each floor protrudes out and curves up.
What is Pagota
100
A traditional way to train and prune woody plant materials in an artistic manner.
What is Bonsai
100
a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.
What is portico
100
A dramatic style of art and music that was common in the 17th and early 18th centuries and that featured many decorative parts and details. The style began in Rome and quickly spread to other parts of Europe.
What is Baroque Period
100
The central gathering place in an ancient city, the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city
What is Agora
200
A traditional architectural element in Chinese gardens that has a circular opening in a garden wall that acts as a pedestrian passageway.
What is Moon Gate
200
The Japanese term used for the garden through which one passes to the chashitsu for the tea ceremony.
What is Roji
200
A covered exterior gallery or corridor usually on an upper level, or sometimes ground level. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns or arches. Located either on the front or side of a building and are not meant for entrance but as an out-of-door sitting room.
What is Loggia
200
Japanese influence on European art, especially in impressionism.
What is Japonism
200
a settlement built upon an area of elevated ground. frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.
What is Acropolis
300
The active principle forming part of any living thing. literally translates as "breath", "air", or "gas", and figuratively as "material energy", "life force", or "energy flow".
What is Qi
300
landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water.
What is Kare Sansui
300
The open central court, from which the enclosed rooms led off.
What is atrium
300
A recurring theme in European artistic styles since the seventeenth century, which reflect Chinese artistic influences. It is characterized by the use of fanciful imagery of an imaginary China.
What is Chinoiserie
300
A Roman author, architect, civil engineer and military engineer during the 1st century BC. credited with drawing the naked man in the circle.
Who is Vitruvius
400
In Chinese LA; an outdoor covered walkway usually over water or near water.
What is walking gallery
400
A dominant religion in Japan characterized by public shrines devoted to the worship of a multitude of gods referred to as Kami.
What is Shinto
400
The sunken part of the atrium in a Greek or Roman house. Designed to carry away the rainwater coming through the open roof, it is usually made of marble and placed about 30 cm below the floor of the atrium.
What is impluvium
400
John Claudius Loudon described a style of planting design that should be recognizable as a work of art with only exotic plants being used.
What is Gardenesque
400
Palladio is credited with authoring the first architectural design series; he addresses space, form, and functions in these writings
What is Quatro Libre dell archtectura
500
A style of traditional Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and often waterfalls are prominent in this art form
What is Shan shui
500
"Enclosing rope". Lengths of rice straw rope used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion. They can vary in diameter from a few inches to several feet. This rope often indicates a sacred space.
What is Shimenawa
500
The opening in the roof of a roman home allowing rainwater into the impluvium.
What is compluvium
500
An artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and was at its peak from 1800 to 1850. The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe.
What is Romanticism
500
in many excavated upscale Italian villas, extravagant paintings bound within plaster were unearthed. This particular style is called:
What is Fresco
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