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A primary value in early twentieth-century Modernist architectural theory wa
A primary value in early twentieth-century Modernist architectural theory wa
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A primary value in early twentieth-century Modernist architectural theory was that of “truth to materials”, that is, it was essential that a building’s design express the “natural” character of the building materials. This emphasis would have puzzled the architects of the Italian Renaissance (sixteenth century), a period widely regarded as the apex of architectural achievement, for Renaissance architects’ designs were determined only minimally by the materials employed. The diversity of Italy’s natural resources provided Renaissance architects with a wide variety of building materials. The builders of the Pitti Palace (1558-1570) used great blocks of Tuscan stone, just as Etruscans living in the same part of Italy had done some twenty centuries earlier. Had the Florentine Renaissance builders aped the Etruscan style, it might be said that their materials determined their style, since Etruscan style matched the massive, stark, solid character of the stone. But these same materials, which so suited the massive Etruscan style, were effectively used by the Florentine Renaissance to create the most delicate and graceful of styles.
A similar example of identical materials used in contrasting styles characterizes the treatment of Roman travertine marble. When Baroque architects of seventeenth-century Rome desired a massive and solid monumental effect, they turned to travertine marble, whose “natural effect” is, indeed, that of spacious breadth and lofty, smoothly rounded surfaces. Yet during the Renaissance, this same material had been used against its “nature,” in the Florentine tradition of sharply carved detail. Italian Renaissance architecture was shaped less by the “nature” of the materials at hand than by the artistic milieu of Renaissance Italy, which included painting and sculpture as well as architecture. While Roman travertine marble may have lent itself to fine carving, the Florentine passion for fine detail is no less marked in
Florentine Renaissance painting
than in Florentine Renaissance architecture. Similarly, in the next century, the emphasis on shading and corporeal density in Baroque painting mirrored the use of Roman travertine marble in Baroque architecture to create broad shadow and powerful masses.
The ingenuity of Renaissance architects extended beyond merely using a material in a way not suggested by its outward natural appearance. If they conceived a design that called for a certain material either too expensive or difficult to work with, they made no scruple about imitating that material. Their marbles and their stones are often actually painted stucco. When the blocks of masonry with which they built were not in scale with the projected scheme, the real joints were concealed and false ones introduced. Nor were these practices confined, as some
scholars
insist, to the later and supposedly decadent phases of the art. Material, then, was utterly subservient to style. [br] The author’s mention of Florentine Renaissance painting serves in the context of the passage to support which of the following assertions?
选项
A、The constraints that operate in architecture are different from those that operate in painting
B、Florentine architectural style was not determined by the nature of the available marble.
C、The Florentine Renaissance period was a period in which the other arts achieved the same distinction as did architecture.
D、Technical advances in all of the arts of the Florentine Renaissance determined the stylistic qualities of those arts.
E、Native preferences of style do not manifest themselves in the same ways in different arts.
答案
B
解析
本题定位到第二段第五句,其服务的观点是文艺复兴时期的建筑并不体现建材的本质,所以选项B正确。A项根据第二段第五句,佛罗伦萨绘画对细节的热情不亚于佛罗伦萨的建筑,因此绘画和建筑的重点在于共同之处,而非不同点。C项文章没说不同的艺术是否取得了同样的成就,只说不同的艺术形式组成了意大利文艺复兴的艺术氛围。D项文中没提“技术进步”。E项文中没提“当地风格偏好”。
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