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
