Landscape Architecture LA 211 – Final Exam – Complete
Exam Material
Who was Bernini? - correct answer ✔✔ Italian Sculptor and architect.
Who create the Baroque style of design? - correct answer ✔✔ Bernini
What two piazza was Bernini famous for? - correct answer ✔✔ Piazza of San Pietro (In front of
St. Peters/Twin Colonnade) and Piazza Navona (Obelisk fountain with four rivers)
Who was Louis XIV? - correct answer ✔✔ French. Sun King. Good friends with Andre Le Notre.
Built Versailles to demonstrate his absolute monarchy.
Who built Versailles? - correct answer ✔✔ Louis XIV
Who was Henry Wise? - correct answer ✔✔ An English gardener and garden designer, wise and
apprenticed to George London. BOth drew their inspiration from France and Holland, favoring
avenues and topiary.
What two places did Henry Wise build? - correct answer ✔✔ Blenheim Garden (Military
theme/mosck fortification/parterre gardens. English Baroque) and Hapton Court Palace.
Who was the most famous English landscape designer? What was he known for? - correct
answer ✔✔ Lancelot "capability" Brown. Known for: Changing blenheim by breaking up long
axis with serpentine pond, naturalizing the woods and added "strategic clumps", stowe, and
master gardener at Hampton Court
, Who was Andrew Jackson Downing? - correct answer ✔✔ An american landscape designer,
horticulturist, writer, and a prominent advocate of the Gothic revival style in the US.
What Englishmen invented the term "landscape gardening" to express his theory that art
requires "the united powers of the landscape painter and practical gardener"? - correct answer
✔✔ Humphrey Repton.
Who wrote the Redbooks which show before and after pictures of how he could make
landscapes look better? - correct answer ✔✔ Humphrey Repton
What was Michelangelo's famous Landscape arch design? - correct answer ✔✔ Campidoglio
(Cardonata step ramp, Marcus Aurelius state, oval shaped star pattern that lines up with starts)
What were Andre Le Notre's most famous accomplishments? - correct answer ✔✔
Anamorphosis, Gardens: Versailles, Visconte, Tuleries
Who was Charles Bridgman? - correct answer ✔✔ An Englishman. His designs were influenced
by the French and originally designed stowe with very clean lines
Who was the best known designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard and Stowe? - correct
answer ✔✔ Sir John Vanbrugh
Vanbrugh's chosen style was.. - correct answer ✔✔ baroque
Who was the architect at Stowe? - correct answer ✔✔ Vanbrugh
Who said "all gardening is landscape painting" - correct answer ✔✔ William Kent
Villa Medici at Fiesole - correct answer ✔✔ -Early Renaissance influence
Exam Material
Who was Bernini? - correct answer ✔✔ Italian Sculptor and architect.
Who create the Baroque style of design? - correct answer ✔✔ Bernini
What two piazza was Bernini famous for? - correct answer ✔✔ Piazza of San Pietro (In front of
St. Peters/Twin Colonnade) and Piazza Navona (Obelisk fountain with four rivers)
Who was Louis XIV? - correct answer ✔✔ French. Sun King. Good friends with Andre Le Notre.
Built Versailles to demonstrate his absolute monarchy.
Who built Versailles? - correct answer ✔✔ Louis XIV
Who was Henry Wise? - correct answer ✔✔ An English gardener and garden designer, wise and
apprenticed to George London. BOth drew their inspiration from France and Holland, favoring
avenues and topiary.
What two places did Henry Wise build? - correct answer ✔✔ Blenheim Garden (Military
theme/mosck fortification/parterre gardens. English Baroque) and Hapton Court Palace.
Who was the most famous English landscape designer? What was he known for? - correct
answer ✔✔ Lancelot "capability" Brown. Known for: Changing blenheim by breaking up long
axis with serpentine pond, naturalizing the woods and added "strategic clumps", stowe, and
master gardener at Hampton Court
, Who was Andrew Jackson Downing? - correct answer ✔✔ An american landscape designer,
horticulturist, writer, and a prominent advocate of the Gothic revival style in the US.
What Englishmen invented the term "landscape gardening" to express his theory that art
requires "the united powers of the landscape painter and practical gardener"? - correct answer
✔✔ Humphrey Repton.
Who wrote the Redbooks which show before and after pictures of how he could make
landscapes look better? - correct answer ✔✔ Humphrey Repton
What was Michelangelo's famous Landscape arch design? - correct answer ✔✔ Campidoglio
(Cardonata step ramp, Marcus Aurelius state, oval shaped star pattern that lines up with starts)
What were Andre Le Notre's most famous accomplishments? - correct answer ✔✔
Anamorphosis, Gardens: Versailles, Visconte, Tuleries
Who was Charles Bridgman? - correct answer ✔✔ An Englishman. His designs were influenced
by the French and originally designed stowe with very clean lines
Who was the best known designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard and Stowe? - correct
answer ✔✔ Sir John Vanbrugh
Vanbrugh's chosen style was.. - correct answer ✔✔ baroque
Who was the architect at Stowe? - correct answer ✔✔ Vanbrugh
Who said "all gardening is landscape painting" - correct answer ✔✔ William Kent
Villa Medici at Fiesole - correct answer ✔✔ -Early Renaissance influence
