Deck 12: Baroque Architecture

Question 1

Il Gesù in Rome:

A) was built as a preaching church.
B) has a façade composition modeled on Alberti's S. Maria Novella.
C) has a high degree of façade three-dimensionality.
D) was built as the mother church of the Jesuit order.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Answer 1

All of the answers are correct.

Question 2

The late sixteenth-century pope who began the replanning of Rome was:

A) Sixtus IV.
B) Nicholas V.
C) Sixtus V.
D) Julius II.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Answer 2

Sixtus V.

Question 3

At S. Peter's, Bernini did all of the following EXCEPT:

A) begin construction of two bell towers.
B) add the giant forecourt colonnade.
C) decorate the interior.
D) build the dome.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Answer 3

build the dome.

Question 4

The plan of S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, consists of:

A) an undulating oval.
B) a six-pointed star.
C) a circle.
D) based on that of Il Gesù.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 5

The Piazza Navona was originally:

A) the ancient Roman Stadium of Domitian.
B) the ancient Roman Forum of Nerva.
C) the site of a lake in front of Nero's Golden House.
D) a botanical garden near the Palace of Augustus.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 6

Francesco Borromini was involved in the design of all of the following buildings EXCEPT:

A) S. Agnese.
B) S. Ivo.
C) S. Maria della Pace.
D) S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Question 7

All of the following are part of the Piazza del Popolo EXCEPT:

A) identical domed churches.
B) a central obelisk.
C) an oval plan.
D) a set of viewing terraces.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 8

The dome of Guarino Guarini's Sindone Chapel makes use of:

A) ribs like those seen in Moorish Spain.
B) a telescoping, layered vault of rotated polygons.
C) wall pillars.
D) a wooden superstructure covered with stucco.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 9

The Karlskirche in Vienna included historical elements incorporated from all of the following EXCEPT:

A) S. Agnese in the Piazza Navonna.
B) the Pantheon in Rome.
C) Trajan's Column.
D) Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
E) None of the answers are correct.

Question 10

Christoph Dientzenhofer designed the church of St. Nicholas on the Lesser Side in Prague to have a:

A) triple-shell dome.
B) longitudinal plan with deep wall-pillars set between chapels below and galleries above.
C) binding arch.
D) dome on a drum rising above a pedimented portico flanked by twin campaniles.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 11

Il Gesù in Rome was particularly influential because its design led to the development of the ________ that characterizes many central European Baroque churches.

A) volute
B) wall-pillar
C) nave
D) cross-in-square
E) cella

Question 12

The church of Die Wies is the work of:

A) the Asam brothers.
B) the Zimmermann brothers.
C) the Dientzenhofer family.
D) the Neumann brothers.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 13

One of the three men who were responsible for the design of the east façade of the Louvre in Paris was:

A) Guarino Guarini.
B) Francesco Borromini.
C) Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
D) Sebastian Serlio.
E) Le Vau.

Question 14

The accepted design for the east façade of the Louvre in Paris made use of:

A) end pavilions, a central pedimented unit, and connecting stoalike wings.
B) triplet columns, end pedimented units, and a central stoalike bay.
C) paired pilasters, a central pedimented unit, and tower-like wings.
D) a continuous file of giant-order columns.
E) a set of alternating Corinthian and Ionic columns.

Question 15

Distinctive interior features of Francois Mansart's early designs for the church of the Val-de-Grâce were:

A) illusionistically painted stucco vaults.
B) telescoping vertical spaces generated by a series of truncated low-slung domes.
C) wall-pillars.
D) warped ribbed vaults.
E) alternating sets of Corinthian and Ionic columns atop high pedestals.

Question 16

In a French château, the corps-de-logis is the:

A) group of servants who manage the estate.
B) grand room beyond the foyer.
C) body of the house.
D) house together with its many outbuildings.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 17

The Château of Versailles began as:

A) a royal hunting lodge with a C-shaped plan.
B) the property of the king's finance minister.
C) a place for fêtes, or grand parties.
D) a royal palace, which burned and was replaced.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 18

The plan for the gardens at Versailles by Le Nôtre makes use of:

A) one straight avenue.
B) dense forested areas.
C) streams of water.
D) obelisks and columns.
E) formal flowerbeds.

Question 19

The designer who did NOT work at Versailles was:

A) J. H. Mansart.
B) Louis Le Vau.
C) Andre Le Nôtre.
D) Francois Mansart.
E) All of the answers are correct.

Question 20

Christopher Wren's design of St. Paul's triple-shell dome was influenced by that of:

A) St. Peter's in Rome.
B) St.-Louis-des-Invalides.
C) Ste. Marie de la Visitation.
D) St. Stephen Walbrook.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 21

From 1670 to 1686, Sir Christopher Wren designed ________ of the rebuilt burnt parish churches in London.

A) thirty-four
B) fifty-one
C) fifteen
D) forty-three
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 22

Christopher Wren's "Great Model" design for St. Paul's Cathedral in London was rejected because it:

A) had strong Catholic overtones.
B) drew too much on French models.
C) had too much Gothic detailing.
D) rejected the ideas of Inigo Jones, Wren's predecessor.
E) drew too much on French models and had too much Gothic detailing.

Question 23

All of the following appear at Sir Roger Pratt's Coleshill in Berkshire EXCEPT:

A) a water table.
B) an entry frontispiece.
C) a heavy cornice.
D) a rooftop balustrade.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 24

The designer of Blenheim Palace was:

A) William Talman.
B) Sir John Vanbrugh.
C) Sir Christopher Wren.
D) Roger Pratt.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 25

The design of James Gibbs's church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London was illustrated in his publication titled:

A) A Book of Architecture.
B) English Church Architecture.
C) Four Books of Architecture.
D) Palladio and Palladianism.
E) None of the answers is correct.

Question 26

Discuss Baroque architecture as an instrument of the Counter-Reformation.

Question 27

Discuss the work of one of the following:
a. Francesco Borromini
b. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
c. Guarino Guarini

Question 28

Compare the German interpretation of the Baroque as exemplified by the Zimmerman brothers and the French interpretation as exemplified by Francois Mansart.

Question 29

Compare the work of James Gibbs to that of Nicholas Hawksmoor.