AP Art History : Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Architecture
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Example Question #131 : Architecture
The building pictured above was located in _______________.
New York
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Massachusetts
Virginia
The building pictured in the drawing is Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home in then rural Virginia, which he began building in the late eighteenth century. The location of Monticello is at the top of a hill, on the relative frontier of the continent, making it a building challenge. Nonetheless, Jefferson largely succeeded at building a European inspired grand home that still fit into the American landscape.
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Example Question #1 : Answering Other Questions About Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The Baroque artistic and architectural movement was superseded by a movement that developed in the early eighteenth century in Paris. What was the name of this movement?
The Renaissance
Mannerism
Rococo
Art Deco
Neoclassicism
Rococo
The Baroque movement was superseded by the artistic and architectural movement Rococo in the eighteenth century. Rococo was a deviation from the grandeur and strict symmetry of the Baroque movement, which dominated western and central Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some describe Rococo as delicate and intricate.
Example Question #2 : Answering Other Questions About Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The neoclassical artistic movement of the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries was inspired by which ancient civilization or civilizations?
The ancient Romans
The ancient Greeks
The ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans
Mesopotamians
The ancient Egyptians
The ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans
Neoclassicism was inspired by both ancient Greek and ancient Roman civilizations. This can be seen in its use of columns and other characteristics commonly associated with Greek and Roman art and architecture. Neoclassical sculptures also greatly resemble ancient Greek and ancient Roman sculptures.
Example Question #3 : Answering Other Questions About Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Architecture
The building shown here was located __________________.
on a religious site
in a palace complex
in a city
on a plantation
on a plantation
The main building of Monticello, pictured here, sat in the middle of Thomas Jefferson's plantation. As such, it was both a grand house and the administrative center for the plantation, which housed and worked hundreds of slaves in various agricultural projects. The building's remote location from other settlements was key to its size and situation in its surroundings.
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