ARHIST REVIEWER

1. What is the architectural character of Gothic ?

a. light and coarse b. light and airy c. pointed arcs and open
2. What type of glass is used in clerestory windows ?
a. Rose windows b. stained glass b. wheel window
3. The great creative moment in the evolution of Gothic came at the end of
a. 13th century b. 16th century c. 12th century
4. provided the same structural support as galleries but without walls or roofs. This
device opened the way to 2-far reaching developments.
a. Fan vaulting b. beams and foundations c. flying buttresses
5. flying buttresses made it feasible to greatly enlarge ?
a. clerestory windows b. ambulatory c. ceilings
6. The grandest of all medieval churches,
a. Bourges b. Chartres c. Coutances
7. It proved the more popular design, providing the model for big cathedrals and
followed almost slavishly on ever-increasing scale at Reims and Amiens.
a. Bourges b. Chartes c. Beauvais
8. the last of the monumental High Gothic churches
a. Bourges b. chartes c. beauvias
9. Its style means “Radiant”, describing the tendency toward the use of more and
more stained glass and less masonry in the design of the structure, until the walls
seemed entirely made of glass.
a. Rayonnant gothic b. classic gothic c. late gothic
10. Its characteristic features were more exuberant decoration, as the nobles and
wealthy citizens of mostly northern French cities competed to build more and more
elaborate churches and cathedrals.
a. Rayonnant gothic b. flamboyant gothic c. classic gothic
11. Other new features included the _______, a window decorated with an arch, stone
pinnacles and floral sculpture.
a. arc en accolade b. clerestory window c. arc flamboyant
12. the style of French religious and civil architecture also began to show the influence
of the Italian Renaissance.
a. Rayonnant gothic b. flamboyant gothic c. late gothic
13. Formally known as Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens.
a. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. DENIS b. SENS CATHEDRAL
14. ranks as an architectural landmark—as the first major structure of which a
substantial part was designed and built in the Gothic style.
a. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. DENIS b. SENS CATHEDRAL
15. granted the title of Minor Basilica by the Vatican.
a. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. DENIS b. SENS CATHEDRAL
16. Its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress, its enormous and colorful
rose windows, as well as the naturalism and abundance of its sculptural decoration
set it apart from the earlier Romanesque style, it houses one of the world's largest
organs and its immense church bells.
a. CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME, b. SENS CATHEDRAL

17. the first Cathedral to be built in the Gothic architectural style

a. ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. DENIS b. SENS CATHEDRAL
18. Formally called as Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon.
a. LAON CATHEDRAL b. CATHEDRAL OF NOTRE DAME
19. What supports the nave ?
a. Vaults b. flying buttresses c. tower
20. The earliest part of the said cathedral is the south transept, which was finished by
1190. The rest of the cathedral, built to a very different design, was completed in
1300.
a. CHOIR OF ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. REMI
b. CHARTRES CATHEDRAL
21. The outstanding feature of the building is the ambulatory chapels: they are usually
deep, and a wall passage runs in front of their windows, making the first
appearance of the so-called “Remois” or Champenois passage.
 a. CHOIR OF ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. REMI b. CHOIR OF ABBEY CHURCH
OF ST. REMI,
22. The windows have plate tracery with large oculi above twin lancets. The whole
cathedral is very closely related to Chartres,
a. CHOIR OF ABBEY CHURCH OF ST. REMI b. CHOIR OF ABBEY CHURCH
OF ST. REMI,
23. Characterized by Rich Tracery, Elaborate ornamental vaulting, and refinement of
stonecutting techniques.
a. Perpendicular Gothic
b. Early gothic
c. Curvilinear gothic
24. The 2nd of the 3 phases of English Gothic, from the late 13th through the late 14th
Centuries.
a. Perpendicular Gothic
b. Early gothic
c. Curvilinear gothic
25. The later development of the Decorated style
d. Perpendicular Gothic
e. Early gothic
f. Curvilinear gothic
26. .WHAT IS THE ARCHITECTURAL STYLE OF ENGLISH GOTHIC
a. pointed arches, vaulted roofs, buttresses, large windows, and spires.
b. Pointed arches, fan vaults, buttresses, large windows, and spires
27. The First of 3 phases of English Gothic
g. Perpendicular Gothic
h. Early gothic
i. Curvilinear gothic
28. The final phase of English Gothic architecture,
j. Perpendicular Gothic
k. Early gothic
l. Curvilinear gothic
 29. Rare example of an English Gothic church built entirely to one basic design.
a. SALISBURY CATHEDRAL,
b. DURHAM CATHEDRAL,
c. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL,
30. Very influential in Normandy and northern France where the system formed a
central feature of the newly developing Gothic style
d. SALISBURY CATHEDRAL,
e. DURHAM CATHEDRAL,
f. CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL,
31. Probably the earliest example of Norman influence in English building, even
predating 1066.
g. YORK MINSTER
h. DURHAM CATHEDRAL
i. WESTMINSTER ABBEY
32. One of the largest and best-preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England.
a. Fountains abbey
b. Beverly minster
c. Wellminster abbey
33. What is the architectural characteristics of renaissance ?
a. Dignity and formality
b. Sober and coarse
c. Dignity and sober

MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE

1. The techniques and skills of Gothic masons evolved without interruption over a period of
300 years.

2. The building in which the style achieved its first magisterial expression was the Abbey
Church of St. Denis outside Paris

3. Masonry was reduced to a skeletal minimum.

4. height mattered as much as if not more than light and color,

5. Birth place of gothic architecture is in southern France

6. France’s central position within western Europe became an asset,

Paris was now more than ever the administrative and cultural
center of France.
7. In high gothic, Gothic elements were refined to make the new cathedrals taller, wider,
and fuller of lights.
8. Buttresses were given greater weight and strength by the addition of heavy stone
pinnacles on top. These were often decorated with statues of angels and became an
important decorative element of the High Gothic style.
9. The typical patron of the Rayonnant era was private, and the archetypal Rayonnant
buildings was palace chapel
10. Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is now the National Museum of Archaeology in
German
11. Flamboyant had a regional quality reminiscent of Romanesque
12. There are 4 ambulatories, with a continuous ring of shallow radiating chapels, the outer
arcade piers are very slender, and cannot have supported a tribune above them; the
radiating chapels are lit by enormous stained-glass windows making St. Denis an eclectic
building, as Suger had been impressed by, and wished to emulate, Early Christian basilica
in Italy.
13. Sens adopt the Norman Romanesque sexpartite vault.
14. In cathedral of notre dame , The high vault is sexpartite, covering double bays. The vault
is very high – just over 30m (100 ft.)
15. Chartres was designed as a pilgrimage church
16. Many features of Gothic architecture had evolved naturally from Romanesque
architecture (often known in England as Norman architecture).
17. Early English Gothic is Characterized by the Lancet Windows and Plate Tracery
18. Curvilinear is Also called Rectilinear style.
19. Edward the Confessor was the appointed architect in Westminster abbey
20. Lincoln cathedral was the tallest building in the world for 238 years
21. this period is greatly influenced by two persons: Alonzo Berruguete a sculptors, also
known as the “ Spanish Donatello” . Juan de Herrera notable architect who visited
Flanders and Italy to take a more classical and austere turn
22. Churrigueresque was developed in the late 17th century and continued to mid 18th
century due to a family of architects led by Jose de Churriguera.

ST. PETERS BASILICA ( LARGEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD

ARCHITECTS
1. DONATO BRAMANTRE
( Greek cross, inspired by pantheon)
2. RAFAELLO SAINZO
( naves of the church with gulliano de sangallo , latin cross plan, APSES )
3. ANTONIO Da SANGALLO
( younger brother of gulliano, altered the plan Peruzzi )
4. Michaelangelo Buonarroti
( greek plan redesigned the surroundings, baldachino, designed the dome)
5. CARLO MADERNO
( lengthen the nave , latin gigantic façade, dome top l,antern )
6. Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
(piazza 284 ionic collumns )
7. GIACOMO BARROZI DA VIGNOLA
( side domes )
8. GULLIANO DE SANGALLO
( strengthen and extended peristyle of Bramante )
9. BALDASSARE PERUZZI
( successor of rapahael, internal arrangement of 3 apses )
10. FRA GIOVANNI GIOCONDO
( ARCHI, ENGR. ARCHEOLOGIST ETC..)
11. GIACOMO DELLA PORTA
( ALTERED MICHAEL ANGELOS DESIGN, ADDED LIONS MASK
12. DOMENICO FONTANA
( COMPLETED THE DOM
SEQUENCING OF STYLE
A. FRENCH GOTHIC
____ HIGH GOTHIC or CLASSIC GOTHIC

____EARLY GOTHIC TRANSITION or

PRIMITIVE GOTHIC

____FLAMBOYANT GOTHIC

____RAYONNANT GOTHIC

____LATE GOTHIC

B. Sequence of English Gothic Style

___ EARLY ENGLISH GOTHIC

___ DECORATED GOTHIC

___ CURVILINEAR GOTHIC

___ PERPENDICULAR or
RECTILINEAR GOTHIC
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