Art History quiz 1 study guide

Who is the architect for the cathedral of Florence?

Arnolfo di Cambio

The most devastating natural disaster in Europe that broke out in the 1340s was

Black Death

____ contributed to the decentralization of religious practice.

Book of Hours

____ are portraits of individuals that accompany religious scenes and became very popular in the 15th century.

Donor portraits

The Hundred Years War primarily involved which two kingdoms?

England and France

In the 15th century, the dukes of Burgundy wielded power over which of the following counties?

Flanders

Which of the following artists specialized in images of the Madonna and Child?

Hans Memling

Which artist served as the dean of the painters' guild of Ghent and worked for Tommaso Portinari?

Hugo van der Goes

The Nuremberg Chronicle is a tribute to the new craft of the printed illustrated book. What was the content of the Nuremberg Chronicle?

It was the history of the world.

____ created the first known Western portrait where the sitter looks directly at the viewer

Jan van Eyck

The facial types, beards, and coiffures of ____ figures reveal the influence of classical relief sculpture

Nicola Pisano's

Which of the following cities was considered the rightful capital of the Roman Catholic Church?

Rome

The artist ____ was instrumental in creating the International Gothic style

Simone Martini

The Italian admiration for classical art resurfaced at

The court of Frederick II

Jan van Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife contains many symbols. Which of the following is an allusion to fidelity?

The dog

Commissioned by the Sienese government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes for the Palazzo Pubblico address the

civic concerns of the Sienese

The setting for Pietro Lorenzetti's Birth of the Virgin, which was a ____, represented an advance in worldly realism

detailed interior of an upper-class house

The imagery of the Triumph of Death served as a warning against

lust and greed

Inspiration for the form of Claus Sluter's Well of Moses may have come from ____

mystery plays

A great achievement of the Les Très Riches Heures was that it made manuscripts more closely resemble ____

panel paintings

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

trefoil arches

The following phrase from Revelations, "pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb," is depicted in which of the following?

Altar of the Lamb from the Ghent Altarpiece

One of the most important trading cities of 15th-century Netherlands was ____

Bruges

The illusionism found in French manuscript was influenced by contact with

Bruges

Which city derived its wealth from the wool trade and then expanded into banking?

Bruges

Which of the following would support the argument that the Well of Moses created by Claus Sluter did not actually spout water?

Carthusian commitment to silence would preclude any sound-making device.

The Roman fresco tradition can best be seen in the work of which of the following artists?

Cavallini

Which of the following was Philip the Bold of Burgundy's grandest artistic enterprise?

Chartreuse de Champmol

Which of the following was a dynastic symbol of Burgundian power?

Chartreuse de Champmol

The ____ were the most powerful northern European rulers during much of the 15th century.

Dukes of Burgundy

Historian Giovanni Villani wrote in the 14th century that this city was "the daughter and creature of Rome," suggesting a preeminence inherited from the Roman Empire. Which of the following city-states does this phrase describe?

Florence

In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries?

France

Which two entities divided the Burgundian territories after the death of Charles the Bold?

France and the Holy Roman Empire

A familiar feature in French Gothic art, the loosely curved folds of the female saints in Duccio's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Maestà) is a feature of ____ art.

French Gothic

In contrast to his father, Giovanni Pisano worked in a style derived from

French Gothic Art

Whose work is best characterized by the use of solid volumes resting firmly on the flat and horizontal surface of this earth?

Giotto

____ sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty three-dimensional body and the illusion of space to contain it.

Giotto

In Riemenschneider's Assumption of the Virgin, the artist successfully incorporated which of the following elements?

Gothic intricacy

Who was the noble patron who commissioned Les Très Riches Heures?

Jean, Duke of Berry

In contrast to other monastic orders, the ____ lived and preached in urban environments

Mendicant

____ was the leading Roman painter at the end of the 13th century.

Pietro Cavallini

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 cities established itself as a major shipping power?

Pisa

Which art form grew in popularity partially because of its ability to memorialize the sitter?

Portraiture

In Martin Schongauer's engraving, he created distinctions of tonal values and textures. He distinguished between skin and cloth, feather and fur. Which of the following is the title of Martin Schongauer's engraving?

Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons

What element of Veit Stoss's style recalled the design principles of Late Gothic architecture?

Sharp forms that dart in a flamelike fashion

What did the humanist cult of fame emphasize?

The importance of creative individuals

Enhancing its meaning, the Portinari Altarpiece contains small scenes, such as the ____, in the background.

arrival of the magi

What does the fountain created by Claus Sluter for the cloister of Chartreuse de Champmol symbolize?

everlasting life

One of Giotto's innovations that moved away from the Italo-Byzantine style was the introduction of

figures seen from the back

The ____ of Duccio's figures from the Maestà was/were derived from Byzantine art

formality and symmetry

The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling as seen in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveals the ____ roots of his style

fundamentally medieval

Confraternities were ____ who dedicated themselves to strict religious observance.

laypeople

In the calendar pages of Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, scenes of courtly life alternate with

seasonal tasks

By including ____ Hugo van der Goes revived medieval pictorial devices.

small background scenes and a varied scale of figures

Elements of Giotto's new style that appear in the Madonna Enthroned include

statuesque figures that cast shadows

Simone Martini's rendition of Annunciation may have been inspired by

the etiquette of chivalric courts

Andrea Pisano's south doors for Florence's baptistery were commissioned by

the guild of wool importers