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Architecture
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100
A room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts.
What is a scriptorium?
100
11th and 12th century style in Europe.
What is Romanesque?
100
Stained glass window, flying buttresses, ribbed vaults in a cruciform.
What is a Gothic Cathedral?
100
This sculptor, painter and architect invented one-point perspective.
Who is Brunelleschi?
100
Rediscoveries of Aristotle's theories and a return to humanism.
What is the Renaissance?
200
An architectural support, usually consisting of massive masonry built against an exterior wall to brace the wall and counter the thrust of the vaults.
What is a buttress?
200
1503-6
What is the date of the Mona Lisa?
200
Term for architectural style using rounded vaults ala the Romans.
What is Romanesque?
200
This artist was interested in math, science, meteorology, botany, anatomy, engineering and art. He wrote equally well with both hands.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
200
The first university was built in Bologna, Italy, in this century.
What is the 11th century?
300
Egg yolk and pigment.
What is tempera?
300
1510-11
What is the date of Raphael's School of Athens?
300
This Renaissance architect redesigned Saint Peter's Cathedral.
Who is Michelangelo?
300
Northern Renaissance portrait painter who painted an image of himself in a commissioned painting of his patrons.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
300
40% of the population in Europe died in this century.
What is the 14th century?
400
An Italian word designating the contrast of dark and light in a painting, drawing, or print.
What is chiaroscuro?
400
1508-12
What is the date of the Sistine Ceiling?
400
Thomas Jefferson was inspired by this building when he designed his own residency Monticello in the US.
What is Palladio's Villa Rotunda (1560s)?
400
This artist is the person behind a sculpture of David in marble.
Who is Michelangelo?
400
The century when the first encyclopedia Speculum Maius (Greater Mirror) was published. It included entries in Natural History, History and Morality.
What is the 13th century?
500
Three panels hinged together.
What is a triptych?
500
Circa 1490
What is Leonardo Da Vinci's The Vitruvian Man?
500
The city around which the Gothic architectural style emerged.
What is Paris?
500
This artist studied the 1st c. Roman writer Vitruvius book "On Architecture,"
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
500
Johann Gutenberg invented this device in 1445.
What is a moveable metal type press?