Question
The Palais Garnier exemplifies this style’s mansard roofs and bracketed cornices. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this architectural style popularized through the reconstruction of the Louvre and Baron Hausmann’s remodeling of Paris during the reign of Napoleon III.
ANSWER: Second Empire [accept Second Empire Baroque; accept, but DO NOT REVEAL, French Revival or French Baroque Revival]
[10h] In the 1860s, this city’s elite constructed a series of Second Empire buildings on its ring roads to stimulate an artist community. A building in this city has a façade of three Gorgon heads and a dome-like structure made of golden foliage.
ANSWER: Vienna [accept the Vienna Secession Building]
[10e] Second Empire is sometimes referred to as a “French Baroque” example of this phenomenon in which historical architectural elements are brought back by contemporary architects. An example is Big Ben being part of this phenomenon with respect to Gothic architecture.
ANSWER: revival [accept revivalism; accept French Revival or French Baroque Revival; accept Gothic Revival]
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