TOA M-03 01

Best known as the author of De Architectura libre decem known today as "The Ten Books of Architecture"

• Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

• Marcus Aurelius Pilus

• Marcus Caesar Pilus

• Augustus Vitruvius Pollio

• None of the Above

Believed to be the first architect and engineer the world has known by name***

• Imhotep

• Nebuchadnezzar II

• Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

• Hemiunu

• None of the Above

Answer explanation

Historians identify Imhotep, who lived around 2600 BC, as the first identified architect in history.

ATLAS books says its Vitruvius

built in 19 BC, in a place known as Fanum Fortunae in Italy, is the only known project Vitruvius has made according to his writings but has completely disappeared

• Basilica Porcia

• Basilica Sancti Petri

• Abu Mena Basilica and Complex

• Basilica de Fano

• None of the Above

Vitruvius stated that the Greeks invented the classical orders which gave them a sense of proportion, culminating in their understanding the proportion of the greatest work of art: _____

• Nature

• Temples for the Gods

• The human body

• The human mind

• None of the Above

The Vitruvian Man, which was later drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, where the human body was inscribed in a circle and a square, were forms considered as the fundamental geometric patterns of what?

• cosmic ratio

• cosmic order

• cosmic shapes

• cosmic theory

• None of the Above

Who discovered Vitruvius book "De Architectura" in 1414?

• Poggio Bracciolini

• Michelangelo Buonarotti

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Leon Battista Alberti

• None of the Above

According to Vitruvius: what is the width of four fingers?

• cubit

• palm

• foot

• pace

• None of the Above

According to Vitruvius: what is the width of four palms?

• cubit

• palm

• foot

• pace

• None of the Above

According to Vitruvius: what is the width six palms?

• cubit

• palm

• foot

• pace

• None of the Above

According to Vitruvius: what is four cubits?

• cubit

• palm

• foot

• pace

• None of the Above