Arch 150 Appreciation of Architecture 1 Fall 2016 • Prof. Alex Anderson Test 4 Study Guide (test available Thurs 12/8 at 6:00 pm until Sat 12/10 at 6:00 pm) The test is open book. You may use any resource you like, as long as you work on your own. It is 30 questions, 40 minutes. Lectures Covered: Construction 2 Byzantine and Carolingian Early Islamic Romanesque Gothic Readings in the text: Pages 133-46, 153-160, 172-175, 177-249 Buildings (quite a few buildings in a few lectures!): Construction 2: Fontenay Abbey Don’t worry about specific buildings St. Michael Hildesheim Concentrate on terms and ideas St. Sernin, Toulouse St. Foy, Conques Byzantine and Carolingian: Santiago de Compastella Old St. Peter’s, Rome Speyer Cathedral Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome St. Etienne, Caen Santa Costanza, Rome Durham Cathedral Orthodox Baptistery, Ravenna San Miniato al Monte, Florence Hagia Sophia, Constantinople St. Front, Périgueux San Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna Pisa Cathedral San Vitale, Ravenna Church San Marco, Venice Baptistery Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne, Aachen Campanile Early Islamic Gothic Ka’ba, Mecca St. Denis, Paris Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem Notre Dame, Paris Great Mosque, Damascus Notre Dame, Chartres Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, Samarra Sainte-Chapelle, Paris Great Mosque, Córdoba Carcassonne (walls) Alhambra, Granada Salisbury Cathedral Sultan Han, Kayseri Lincoln Cathedral King’s College Chapel, Cambridge Romanesque: Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Castle Rising, Norfolk Church Dover Castle, Dover Baptistery Ávila, Spain (walls and cathedral) Campanile St. Gall plan (ideal monastery) Duomo, Siena Cluny Monastery Palazzo Pubblico, Siena San Martin de Canigou monastery Doge’s Palace, Venice Terms (many terms this time!): ambulatory lobed arch apse martyrium arcade masonry arch mausoleum arcuated mihrab atrium (of a church) minaret baptistery minbar basilica (Christian) mosaic bastide muqarnas buttress narthex campanile nave caravanserai pendentive centering piazza choir pier cloister pinnacle concrete pointed arch crossing qibla crypt relieving arch dome revetment fan vault rib vault flying buttress rose window fortification sahn fresco side aisle gallery (in a church) spolia groin vault squinch half timbering string course hammerbeam trabeated haram tracery historiated column transept horseshoe arch triforium hypocaust truss keep tympanum keystone vault lancet window voussoir lantern westwerk In addition to the information above we talked about: • Roman concrete and associated wall treatments (i.e. fresco, mosaic, marble revetment) • Different types of arches and vaults • Methods to support a dome on a square or octagonal base • The layout of churches (centralized and cross-planned) • The orientation of mosques • Some identifying characteristics of Romanesque architecture • Monasteries and their arrangement • Some notable features of pilgrimage churches • Fortified houses and towns • Some identifying characteristics of Gothic architecture .