Neo-Classicism and the foundations of modernity

11 important questions on Neo-Classicism and the foundations of modernity

On page 218 of your text book, in reference to the demise of the Baroque and Rococo style, Patrick Nuttgens states: ‘It is very odd that this one came to an end so suddenly.  With more sober and ponderous ___________ now assuming political power, Europe returned to a more sober and ponderous classical architecture.

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Empires

On page 218 of your text book, in reference to the demise of the Baroque and Rococo style, Patrick Nuttgens states:…the deciding factor in the break with the Baroque was a new enthusiasm that found expression in the fashionable taste of the time.  It was __________ and ___________ that the new fashionable taste was first expressed.

England and Scotland

The English and the Scots used the work of which classical Italian Renaissance architect as a model for their buildings?   The Chiswick House (depicted) by Lord Burlington and William Kent is an example.
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On page 220 of your text book, in reference to the Palladian style, Patrick Nuttgens states: “The new elegance was not confined to country houses…No later version, not even Robert Adam’s planning of Charlotte Square, Edinburgh (1791-1807), as a unified palace front, is quite as dramatic as the streets the Woods created in ______________.  In golden white ___________ stone, the elevations of the streets are conceived as one continuous Palladian frontage.

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Bath

On page 221 of your text book, in reference to the English landscape movement, Patrick Nuttgens states: “Kent was followed by Charles Bridgeman (d. 1738), who is credited with another major English innovation.  That was the method whereby the entire landscape, as far as the ey could see, became part of the estate: he replaced fences dividing gardens from the surrounding pasture land by sunken ditches called ______________, which kept the cattle out, but were imperceptible from the terrace or drawing-room window.

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Ha-has

On page 221 of your text book, Patrick Nuttgens describes the differences between French and English garden design.  Which of the garden plans below is French?

this

From 1661, André Le Nôtrewas working for Louis XIV to build and enhance the gardens  of _______________.

Versailles

In which city is this famous Neo-Classical museum?
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Berlin

Where is the ‘Temple of Love’ (depicted) ?

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1.Versailles gardens

Who was the architect of the Berlin Altes Museum?
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel

On page 228 of your text book, Patrick Nuttgens states: ‘Schinkel’s two best-known buildings, the _______________ (1819-21) and the Altes Museum (1823-30) in Berlin, are both in faultless Greek idiom.’

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the Schauspielhaus

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