History of Architecture & Culture - I

A continuous base of structure on which a colonnade is placed?

• Stereobate

• Stylobate

• Crepidoma

• Base

Systyle intercolumnation

• 1.5 x cd

• 2.5 x cd

• 2 x cd

• 3 - 4 x cd

Imposing entrance to acropolis and erected by architect mnesicles?

• Propylaea

• Erechtheion

• Poseidon

• Hypostyle

The art of sculpture had a diminished role in the churches because of the biblical prohibition of graven images. How did the artists represent the saints?

• Wall carving

  wall carving letters

• Wall paintings

• Cut out of figures made of cloth

• Glass mosaic

Atrium type of house, characteristic of roman times is believed to have originated w/ the?

• Etruscans

• Aegeans

• Corsicans

• None

The shaft of the Greek order terminates in which part?

• Trachelion

• Hypotrachelion

• Abacus

• Echinus

The great pyramid at gizeh was built in the 4th dynasty by?

• Rameses I

• Rameses II

• Cheops

• Chepren

The Roman rectangular temples stood on a _____________

• Crepidoma

• Stylobate

• Podium

• Pedestal

What capital order was used in the parthenon?

• Doric

• Ionic

• Tuscan

• Corinthian

How did romans create a structures with great spans?

• Use of arch

• Use of stones pile together

• Stone corbel systems

• Large column and stone beams