ARTS 101 Quiz 3
This piece was created by
Berlinghieri
The title of this work is
Betrayal of Jesus
The Roman fresco tradition can best be seen in the work of which of the following artists?
Cavallini
Who created this piece?
Cavallini
This work is by
Duccio
How did Italy's place as a distribution center for the great silk trade affect Duccio's Maestà? (Select 3 Answers)
Duccio created the glistening and shimmering effects of textiles, adapting exotic motifs and designs It reflected the immense market for elegant dress during this time It reflected the European people's desire for fabrics from China, Persia, Byzantium, and the Islamic world
Match the image with the correct description
E. An example begun in 1386 of a cathedral designed by committee, and demonstrating Italian proportions, French style pinnacles, Gothic surface decorations and later Renaissance additions to its style. A. A cathedral begun in 1310, with a Gothic façade masking an actual Romanesque style timber roofed structure behind it. B. A secular public palace or city hall built in Siena in 1288-1309 with the ability to also function as a lookout that included holes and openings for pouring hot oil or stones on enemies. D. A Florentine cathedral, begun in1296, intended to hold the entire population of the city and covered in the old Tuscan fashion of marble geometric designs C. The Venetian seat of government begun in 1340-1345 and the most ornate public building in medieval Italy, this building also demonstrates a variation on northern Gothic architecture.
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
This structure is
Florence Cathedral
In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries?
France
In contrast to his father, Giovanni Pisano worked in a style derived from ____.
French Gothic art
How did artists create and sell their work during the period of the emerging Italian Renaissance? (Select 3 Answers)
Generally, a patron contracted the artist for a specific commission, and had significant influence on the work itself Artists rarely created a work without having received a commission Artists did not have as much freedon to create what they wanted to create as they do today
This work is by
Giotto
The artist who created this was
Giovanni Pisano
This work was created by
Nicola Pisano
The name of this piece is
Peaceful Country
This piece was created by
Pietro Lorenzetti
This door is the work of
Pisano
This image shows the interior of
Santa Maria Novella
How did the Antique past or the classical past impact the humanists of 14th-century Italy? (Select 3 Answers)
The classical past provided a model for living that focused on human needs This was a model derived from reason and not from an authoritative and traditional religious model. The classical past provided a model for living that addressed human problems.
How did Duccio deviate from the Byzantine style in the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Maestà)? (Select 3 Answers)
The faces of some of the saints are more individualized than those found in Byzantine art. He relaxed the frontality and rigidity of the figures He softened the contour lines and the drapery patterning
How does Giotto's Madonna Enthroned create sculptural solidity and weight? (Select 3 Answers)
The throne breaks away from the flat ground to project and enclose her at the same time. The figure projects into the light and gives the illusion of casting a shadow, a sense of solidity and weight. The throne of the Madonna is deep enough to contain her monumental figure, a Roman goddess-like figure.
The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling as seen in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveals the ____ roots of his style.
WRONG: fundamentally medieval
Commissioned by the Sienese government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes for the Palazzo Pubblico address the ____.
civic concerns of the Sienese
This image (select all that apply)
depicts Saint Francis demonstrates its Byzantine roots with the use of gold leaf is in the Italo-Byzantine style demonstrates its Byzantine roots with the depiction of prominent halos and lack of modeling is in the maniera greca THERE IS ONE MORE TOO!
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
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 Enthronedinclude ____.
statuesque figures that cast shadows
This image shows (select all that apply)
the Arena Chapel interior. a series of frescoes in Padua. one of Giotto di Bondone's finest works. the Cappella Scrovegni interior.
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
In this image we see (select all that apply)
the work of Pietro Lorenzetti a triptych the depiction of the birth of Mary a kind of pictorial illusionism that had not been practiced in Italy for a thousand years THERE IS ONE MORE TOO!
