Thursday, February 4, 1999

Announcements:

• homework: look through Janson for Renaissance Architecture in Italy, Mannerist Architecture, and Baroque Architecture
• which do you like the best and why?
• think of 5 adjectives to describe each of the styles

    Architectural Terms to Know:
    ** there will be terms to define on the exam

•    look these up in Abacus to Zeus or email Emily with specific questions

• Vitruvius
• Latin Cross
• cruciform
• longitudinal plan
• crossing
• dome
• vault
• coffering
• clerestory
• arcade
• trabeation
• colonnade
• column
• engaged column
• pilaster
• colossal order
• narthex
• nave
• aisle
• transept
• apse
• balustrade
• relief

• negative space
• composition
• deductive
• additive
• carving
• casting
• fresco
• pigment
• plaster
• sinopia
• tempera
• enamel
• oil
• prints
• pastel
• watercolor
• model

• the centralized plan is unlike the basilica plan in that each of the arms are the same length and do not appear to form a Christian cross
• the basilicas (public meeting places) were adopted by Christianity because the existing temples were too closely associated with Paganism

• lived 46-30 BCE
• recorded classical Greek architecture (idealized system)
• his works were rediscovered by scholars in the Renaissance
• had an impact on Florentine humanists (beginning in early 15th C.)

• bannister-like series of columns (second-tier) on The Tempietto

• columns in a series

• (barrel) vault: arched ceiling
• coffering: indentations in ceiling
• pilaster: column flattened and attached to the wall

• meeting hall
• engaged columns: attached to the wall; 1/2 round

Colossal Order: when a column extends past the arch,

• massive, larger than normal scale (New St. Peter's)