CH14: Late Medieval Italy
The Roman fresco tradition can best be seen in the work of which of the following artists?
Cavallini
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
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
Whose work is best characterized by the use of solid volumes resting firmly on the flat and horizontal surface of this earth?
Giotto
The artist ____ was instrumental in creating the International Gothic style.
Simone Martini
The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling as seen in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveals the ____ roots of his style.
fundamentally medieval
The most devastating natural disaster in Europe that broke out in the 1340s was ____.
the Black Death
The Italian admiration for classical art resurfaced at ____.
the court of Frederick II
Which of the following is a medieval element depicted on the pulpit for the baptistery of Pisa Cathedral?
trefoil (triple-curved) arches
Who is the architect for the cathedral of Florence?
Arnolfo di Cambio
____ sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty three-dimensional body and the illusion of space to contain it.
Giotto
The facial types, beards, and coiffures of ____ figures reveal the influence of classical relief sculpture.
Nicola Pisano's
What did the humanist cult of fame emphasize?
The importance of creative individuals
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
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 imagery of the Triumph of Death served as a warning against ____.
lust and greed
Elements of Giotto's new style that appear in the Madonna Enthroned include ____.
statuesque figures that cast shadows
