Art History Chapters 12-14

The relief sculptures of Old Testament kings and queens appearing on French church portals door jambs are meant to represent what group?

Ancestors of Christ

Which work derives some of its technical effects from the products of the silk trade in 13th- and 14th-century Italy?

Duccio's Maesta

The Tuscan Romanesque revetment of the Florentine Duomo brings it closest to which architectural tradition?

Early Christian

Which of Giotto's innovations represents a departure from the Italo-Byzantine style?

Figures seen from the back

Which artist sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty, three-dimensional body with the illusion of the space that contained it?

Giotto

Which individual designed the Campanile of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence?

Giotto di Bondone

Whose work is best characterized by the use of solid volumes resting firmly on a flat stagelike surface?

Giotto di Bondone

Which late medieval Italian painting constitutes the first landscape painting since antiquity?

Lorenzetti, Peaceful Country

What is the location of this cathedral complex?

Pisa, Italy

What were the pilgrims who made journeys to faraway churches hoping to see?

Relics

What is the name of the person represented here, on the Stavelot reliquary?

Saint Alexander

Abbot Suger is credited with remodeling which of the following churches?

Saint-Denis

What was the earliest Gothic Cathedral and burial church for the kings of France?

Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis

What do art historians theorize is the explanation for the resurgence of stone sculpture in the Romanesque period?

Sculptural programs were a means to educate and impress an illiterate audience.

In addition to worldly realism, what innovation appears in this painting by Pietro Lorenzetti?

Spatial illusionism

Which element of Giotto's new style appears in the MadonnaEnthroned?

Statuesque figures that cast shadows

In Berlinghieri's painting of Saint Francis, what physical feature in the image is meant to lead viewers to closely associate the saint with Christ?

Stigmata

Which of the following led to the growth of towns and cities in the Romanesque period?

an increase in trade

what are royal portals

at the entrance to the church; chartres cathedral

Which of the following aspects is most likely to identify a work as Romanesque?

date

What innovative feature of Gothic cathedrals is an external support that counters the outward thrust of the nave vaults?

flying buttresses

Which characteristic of Duccio's figures in the Maestà originates in Byzantine art?

formality and symmetry

The term Roman-like was adopted to describe the architecture of the Romanesque period because it relied on which elements of Roman architecture?

groin vaults

What did pilgrims believe that relics could accomplish?

heal pilgrims in body and soul

What was the ambulatory

it was around the altar, gave way to thinner walls

arena chapel

painted by giotto for the scrovengi family; padua, italy

What did the humanist cult of fame emphasize?

the importance of creative artistic individuals

Many Gothic cathedrals were dedicated to which of the following figures?

the virgin mary

Which of the following features of the pulpit for the baptistery of Pisa Cathedral is a medieval element?

trefoil arches

buon fresco

true fresco; water applied to wet lime plaster

The Gothic style is said to have first appeared in which of the following areas?

Île-de-France

The monks of which order were among the primary patrons of Romanesque sculpture?

Cluniac

Which church remained the largest in Europe until the new Saint Peter's in Rome was constructed in the 17th century?

Cluny III

Who is the painter of the back of the Maestà altarpiece?

Duccio

lamentation

fresco painted by Giotto of Jesus's death

What is the term for a craftsperson who cuts and shapes pieces of glass?

glazier

allegories

good vs bad government

The intersection of two barrel vaults creates which of the following?

groin vault

Which monastic orders are known as the mendicant orders, those committed to vows of poverty and austerity?

Franciscans and Dominicans

Who of the following coined the term Gothic?

Giorgio Vasari

What constitutes a "pilgrimage type" church?

It has radiating chapels along the transept and ambulatory.

What is the message written on the scroll in the upper left corner of this fresco?

a promise of safety to those who live under the rule of the law

What feature became standard on French Gothic facades

a rose window

What devastating natural disaster occurred in Europe during the 1340s?

bubonic plague

In the Gothic period, what were the primary centers of intellectual and religious life?

cities

In the agreement, or contract, that led to the creation of an artwork, which aspect of the work received the most attention?

cost

The High Gothic nave vault, as developed at Chartres, included which form?

four-part ribbed vault

What was the Crusades?

military expeditions to the Holy Land to recover Jerusalem and other pilgrimage sites from the Muslims; moving to the east

In which detail of Madonna Enthroned is Cimabue's movement away from the maniera greca most evident?

receding throne

The round center image of a rose window is referred to by which term?

roundel

what was flamboyant?

stone instead of glass, involved fan vaults

What is the subject of this panel from the Maestà?

Betrayal of Jesus

The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveal his training in which tradition?

Byzantine

Which of the following was a Roman fresco painter who is now seen as a pioneering figure in the birth of Renaissance style?

Cavallini

The portals of which cathedral appear in this image?

Chartres

What is the subject of the personifications on the lower eight panels on Andrea Pisano's bronze doors for the baptistery of San Giovanni?

Christian virtues

What technical term do art historians apply to Giotto's treatment of the angels in this fresco?

Foreshortening

Fan vaulting was a common feature in which of the following regions?

Late Gothic England

The facial types and hairstyles of which artist's figures reveal the influence of classical relief sculpture?

Nicola Pisano

Which sculptor is credited with the creation of the first decorated stone pulpit?

Nicola Pisano

What Italian city is the location of the Arena Chapel?

Padua

Which of the following facts provides support for the claim that Paris was the intellectual center of Gothic Europe?

Paris was a center for fine book production

Which city was at its height of political and economic power when it employed the talents of the sculptor Nicola Pisano?

Pisa

Which of the following Italian cities was a major shipping power?

Pisa

Sainte-Chapelle, with its walls of stained glass and delicate ornamentation, is most representative of which style?

Rayonnant

What is the name of this Late Gothic Flamboyant church?

Saint-Maclou

Which of the following is considered a masterpiece of the Rayonnant style?

Sainte-Chapelle

Which factor contributed to the enormous surge in church building during the Romanesque period?

the peaceful conclusion of the first millenium

what was judgement day

the second coming of christ

During the Romanesque period, the vision of Christ's second coming was often depicted on which architectural element of a church?

the tympanum