Chapter 14: Late Medieval Italy [Practice for Quiz 14]
In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries?
...France
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 contrast to other monastic orders, the ____ lived and preached in urban environments.
...Mendicant
The facial types, beards, and coiffures of ____ figures reveal the influence of classical relief sculpture.
...Nicola Pisano's
____ 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Who is the architect for the cathedral of Florence?
...Arnolfo di Cambio
The Roman fresco tradition can best be seen in the work of which of the following artists?
...Cavallini
