ARH Ch. 14 Quiz

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

Black Death

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

French Gothic art

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

Giotto Di Bondone

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

Mendicant

The artist _____ was instrumental in creating the International Gothic style.

Simone Martini

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 _____ of Duccio's figures from the Maestà was/were derived from Byzantine art.

formality and symmetry

Confraternities were _____ who dedicated themselves to strict religious observance.

laypeople

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

statuesque figures that cast shadows

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

the guild of wool importers