Architecture
Motifs and Concepts
Materials
Interior
Other
100
Name one building from our presentation
What is tempietto, palazzo della ragione, villa barbaro, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, villa rotunda, St. Maria Novella
100
what is a rinceau?
What is a decorative form consisting of a continuous wavy stemlike motif
100
Name two types of wood used
What is oak, cedar, walnut, cypress
100
What is used for storage?
What is chest
100
What are common seating pieces? Name two
What is sedia, folding chairs, ladder back chairs, and stools
200
Name two types of buildings
What is churches, public structures, villas, and palazzi
200
What did designers aspire to create?
What is modern work
200
What type of fabric is common?
What is silk
200
What type of lighting is used? name two
What is torches, candles, chandeliers
200
what is a cassone?
What is a chest
300
What are two important architectural features?
What is columns, engages columns, pilasters, arches, pediments, moldings, modillioned cornice
300
What are motifs used for?
What is embellishment
300
What are two materials used on floors?
What is brick and tile
300
Name four typical colors used in buildings
What is scarlet, cobalt blue, gold, deep green, cream
300
Describe dining tables
What is long and narrow
400
Name two elements of italian renaissance architecture
What is symmetry, regularity, unity, proportion, and harmony
400
Name five motifs
What is columns, pediments, moldings, classical figures, swag, rinceau, rosettes, scroll, cartouche, and geometric patterns
400
Where do you see pattered fabrics? Give two Examples
What is doorways, furniture, as canopies, window treatments
400
What is the purpose of shutters on windows?
What is to block sunlight and heat and give privacy.
400
Describe headboards on the beds
What is high/ big
500
Name the three stages of architecture during the renaissance
What is early, high and late
500
What is Italian Renaissance design based on?
What is classical antiquity
500
Name three materials used in buildings
What is stone, brick, and marble.
500
Most interiors have _______ or _______ vaulted ceilings
What is groin and barrel
500
What are the decorative features of doors?
What is curved, inlaid, painted, or surrounded by aedicula