Deck 6: Early Medieval and Romanesque Europe

Question 1

The ____ burial epitomizes the early medieval tradition of burying great lords with rich furnishings.

A) Sutton Hoo
B) Lindisfarne
C) Centula
D) Suffolk

Answer 1

A

Question 2

____ Column was a possible model for the Bayeux Tapestry because it is in narrative format.

A) Marcus Aurelius's
B) Justinian's
C) Trajan's
D) Constantine's

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What manuscript is an example of Hiberno-Saxon art?

A) Coronation Gospels
B) Vienna Genesis
C) Ebbo Gospels
D) Book of Kells

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What accommodation did Saint-Sernin at Toulouse and other pilgrimage churches make for the visitor?

A) It added perimeter buildings to house pilgrims
B) It attached the ambulatory to the nave
C) It added radiating chapels attached to the transept and ambulatory
D) It narrowed the main aisle to create a dignified progress for viewing the relics

Question 5

The refined and rational plan of Saint-Sernin reflects which prototype for this approach?

A) Saint Michael's, Hildesheim
B) Monastery Church, Saint Gall
C) Santa Mark's, Venice
D) Old Saint Peter's, Rome

Question 6

Which of the following manuscripts shows the greatest influence of the Roman illusionistic style?

A) Utrecht Psalter
B) Coronation Gospels
C) Book of Kells
D) Lindisfarne Gospels

Question 7

What church plan was used as the model for the Palatine Chapel at Aachen?

A) Old Saint Peter's
B) Santa Costanza
C) Hagia Sophia
D) San Vitale

Question 8

Which of the following encouraged the growth of Romanesque towns and cities?

A) a sharp increase in trade
B) the formation of alliances between France and Germany
C) a consolidation of power within the papacy
D) the pilgrimage routes

Question 9

Early Medieval art frequently includes ____.

A) interlace patterns and abstracted zoomorphic forms
B) Kufic text and abstract geometric motifs
C) images of everyday life and abstracted narratives
D) abstracted human forms and images of God

Question 10

Why are Romanesque churches generally rather dark inside?

A) Barrel-vaults exerted great outward thrust making a clerestory difficult to construct.
B) The side aisles blocked the entrance of light into the nave of the church.
C) It was too expensive to construct a clerestory.
D) The rituals required darkness.

Question 11

The Bayeux Tapestry is unique in Romanesque art.Which of the following supports this claim?

A) It depicted an actual event in full detail shortly after it occurred
B) It depicted a tale from the First Crusade
C) It depicted the Mission of the Apostles in full detail
D) It depicted the clash between the Knights Templar and the Saracens

Question 12

Who did Eadwine the scribe emulate in his self-portrait?

A) Bernard of Clairvaux
B) The Gospel writers
C) Christ
D) God

Question 13

The tympanum at Saint-Lazare at Autun depicts ____.

A) the Procession of Saints
B) Christ as Judge
C) the Crucifixion
D) the Virgin and Child

Question 14

Romanesque sculpture at Saint-Pierre in Moissac is characterized by ____.

A) interlace patterns
B) elongated bodies
C) cloisonné
D) illusionism

Question 15

What do the doors of Saint Michael's at Hildesheim illustrate?

A) the Old Testament
B) the New Testament
C) Original Sin and Redemption
D) the Passion

Question 16

The building system using heavy square piers alternating with columns is known as the ____ system.

A) revived modularity
B) modular alternation
C) alternate support
D) squared support

Question 17

Ottonian artists narrated religious stories using ____.

A) expressive figures
B) Latin inscriptions
C) linear perspective
D) all of these choices

Question 18

Which of the following architectural devices was not used by Romanesque architects?

A) groined vaults
B) ribbed vaults
C) clustered piers
D) flying buttresses

Question 19

Who revived the Classical style in the early medieval period?

A) Louis the Pious
B) Bernward of Hildesheim
C) Charlemagne
D) Otto III

Question 20

How is the initial R from the Moralia in Job typically Romanesque?

A) By the absence of a salutation
B) By exceeding the boundaries of the frame
C) By following Hiberno-Saxon carpet page patterns
D) By the banding of the torso and the partitioning of the drapery folds

Question 21

Describe a pilgrimage church.

Question 22

Explain the importance of the plan for the monastery at Saint Gall

Question 23

Compare and contrast these two images.How are they alike and how are they different?

Question 24

How does this work express Carolingian ideas?

Question 25

The Romanesque period has been credited with the revival of stone carving.Briefly assess the reason or reasons for such a revival.

Question 26

Arched galleries on the façade are characteristic of Romanesque architecture in ____.

A) France
B) Italy
C) England
D) Holy Roman Empire

Question 27

Briefly evaluate the impact pilgrimage routes had on the architecture of Romanesque Europe.

Question 28

Describe the vaults used in Romanesque buildings.

Question 29

Tall towers are integrated into the west front of which of the following?

A) Pisa Cathedral
B) Saint-Étienne, Caen
C) Saint-Sernin, Toulouse
D) Durham Cathedral

Question 30

How does this work reflect the influence of Rome?

Question 31

Which monastic order rejected figural sculpture?

A) Carthusians
B) Franciscans
C) Dominicans
D) Cistercians

Question 32

How do these two churches look forward to Gothic architecture?

Question 33

Which of the architectural elements was used for the exterior supports of Romanesque buildings?

A) pendentives
B) buttresses
C) radiating chapels
D) chevets

Question 34

In what way does this figure embody Romanesque sculptural style?

Question 35

Why does this image represent a revival during the Carolingian era?

Question 36

Romanesque manuscript illumination typically ____.

A) subordinated the figure to the frame
B) monumentalized the human figure
C) employed Polykleitos' canon of proportions
D) adopted techniques used in metalwork

Question 37

Summarize the importance of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim to the development of Ottonian art.

Question 38

Briefly describe a cross-inscribed carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels and its significance.

Question 39

What period does each work represent,and how are the works alike?

Question 40

How does this work show its classical heritage?

Question 41

How do these churches reflect the regional character of Romanesque architecture?

Question 42

Critically analyze the style,content,and function of Romanesque portal sculptural.How did these programs reflect the ideas of the age? Then select an example of sculpture studied previously in this class that serves a similar function.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 43

Compare and contrast an Early Medieval manuscript,a Carolingian manuscript,and a Romanesque manuscript.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 44

How did the pilgrimage routes affect church architecture? Also how did these pilgrimage routes impact the dissemination of regional architectural styles of church architecture? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 45

Compare and contrast two regional styles of Romanesque architecture.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 46

Explain how the bronze doors of the abbey church at Hildesheim revive a monumental sculptural tradition.Compare their style and purpose to at least two other examples of monumental sculpture seen so far in this course.

Question 47

Explain the name "Romanesque." Then select three examples of Romanesque art and architecture and analyze their use of Roman ideas.

Question 48

Contrast the major differences between an Ottonian church and a Romanesque church.Include the Romanesque alterations to the Ottonian church plan and the reasons for these changes.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 49

Discuss the development of Early Medieval manuscript painting.How did manuscript illuminators merge local and imported tastes? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 50

Explain the appearance of Carolingian architecture.How did foreign influence affect the structures? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 51

Compare and contrast the Gero Crucifix and the cover from the Lindau Gospels.

Question 52

How does this images fail to meet the reforming spirit of the Cistercian Order and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in particular?