Deck 7: Gothic and Late Medieval Europe

Question 1

Images of the Visitation illustrate ____.

A) Mary's meeting with Elizabeth
B) Christ's visit to Jerusalem
C) Joseph and Mary's journey to Bethlehem
D) Moses' trip out of Egypt

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Fan vaulting was most common in which of the following?

A) Germany
B) France
C) Italy
D) England

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Abbot Suger is credited with introducing Gothic forms at ____.

A) Saint-Sernin
B) Saint-Denis
C) Sainte-Chapelle
D) Notre-Dame, Paris

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Arena Chapel was commissioned by ____.

A) the Sienese civic government
B) the guild of linen merchants
C) Giotto
D) Enrico Scrovegni

Question 5

Which of the following is a major difference between Romanesque and Gothic sculpture?

A) the use of sculpture on church façades
B) the representation of hierarchies
C) the inclusion of scenes from the life of Christ
D) the prominence of Mary in portal programs

Question 6

Many Gothic cathedrals were dedicated to ____.

A) the Virgin Mary
B) the Holy Spirit
C) the Trinity
D) Christ the Judge

Question 7

Which of the following was characteristic of the work of Simone Martini?

A) use of elegant flowing contour
B) emphasis on drama
C) bold modeling of the figures
D) emphasis on delineation of three-dimensional space

Question 8

The Gothic style is said to have first appeared in ____.

A) Lombardy
B) Canterbury
C) Burgundy
D) the Ile de France

Question 9

Who painted the Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Countryside?

A) Simone Martini
B) Giotto
C) Duccio
D) Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Question 10

Who is the sculptor whose work reveals the greatest influence of classical antiquity?

A) Nicola Pisano
B) Giotto
C) Simone Martini
D) Cimabue

Question 11

A series of Gothic sculptures reflecting the growing interest in classical naturalism appears on the west portal of ____.

A) Salisbury Cathedral
B) Notre Dame, Paris
C) Saint Denis
D) Reims Cathedral

Question 12

Which of the following is considered a masterpiece of the Rayonnant style?

A) Reims Cathedral
B) Sainte-Chapelle
C) Saint-Denis
D) Chartres Cathedral

Question 13

Perpendicular style was popular in ____.

A) England
B) Germany
C) France
D) Italy

Question 14

Which of the following may have contributed to Italy's renewed interest in humanist values during the 14th century?

A) Italy was closely associated with Byzantium and its learned libraries
B) Italian scholars had secretly studied the ancient past for centuries
C) The Italian peninsula was filled with classical monuments
D) Rulers supported public monuments dedicated to the values of good government

Question 15

Giotto's Enthroned Madonna appears naturalistic because ____.

A) the Virgin is slender and fragile
B) the Virgin's cloak is heavily patterned with gold threads
C) the Virgin is solid and has mass
D) the figures float as if in the spiritual realm

Question 16

Gothic manuscript production shifted to ____.

A) secular shops
B) monastic workshops
C) Florence
D) Paris

Question 17

Which of the following best describes Gothic architecture?

A) Its rounded arches allows for great height
B) Its interior is permeated with light
C) Its interior is narrow and long windows are eliminated
D) Its apse was rounded to focus attention on the altar

Question 18

What is opere francigeno?

A) The Gothic style of the Ile de France
B) The French operatic style
C) The Gothic style in Florence
D) The French concrete used for vaults

Question 19

What did Giotto incorporate into his work at the Arena Chapel?

A) still life
B) the elegance of French manuscript painting
C) Northern expressionism
D) stage-like settings

Question 20

Where will you find bar tracery in a church?

A) flying buttresses
B) compound piers
C) nave arcade
D) rose window

Question 21

The bell tower of the Florence Cathedral is unlike its northern European counterparts because it ____.

A) reaches high into the heavens
B) is self-sufficient
C) employs spiral staircases
D) was made by a well-known architect, not an anonymous craftsman

Question 22

Describe how Gothic ribbed vaults differ from their Romanesque predecessors.

Question 23

Identify the typical characteristics and the structural components of a French Gothic church.

Question 24

Who are these people? Why are they represented in a church?

Question 25

Contrast these sculpted figure groups.How are they different?

Question 26

How does the fresco cycle Ambrogio Lorenzetti created for the government of Siena participate in the new ideas introduced by Giotto and Duccio?

Question 27

How do stained glass windows function within the context of a Gothic church?

Question 28

How does this interior reflect the High Gothic style?

Question 29

Explain this work and its commission.

Question 30

How is this building an architecture of voids?

Question 31

Explain the structural elements and what they allowed Gothic builders to do.

Question 32

How does the work of Simone Martini exemplify the International Style?

Question 33

What is the cult of the Virgin and how did it impact Gothic art and architecture?

Question 34

Why did Sienna commission the Maestà from Duccio?

A) to honor the city's patron saint, Santa Sienna
B) to illustrate the city's devotion to the Virgin
C) to celebrate the city's victory over Florence
D) to mark the inauguration of the cult of Mary

Question 35

How do the Strasbourg tympanum and statues of Ekkehard and Uta from Naumburg Cathedral differ yet still reflect the Gothic style?

Question 36

To what does Italo-Byzantine refer?

Question 37

Giotto's images have been likened to contemporary ____.

A) sculpture
B) mystery plays
C) tragic theater
D) music

Question 38

Why are Giotto's painted figures called sculptural?

Question 39

Which item is found on an altarpiece?

A) clerestory
B) flying buttress
C) triforium
D) predella

Question 40

How is buon fresco created?

Question 41

What is generally believed to have been the purpose of the sculptural programs of the portals of the great Gothic cathedrals? How did these programs differ from the sculptural programs of Romanesque portals? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 42

How does this image reveal the influence of the art of Classical antiquity?

Question 43

What role did politics and economics play in the creation of Gothic churches and in the spread of the Gothic style throughout Europe? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 44

How does the work of Ambrogio Lorenzetti reflect the historical,social,and political environment? Use examples to support your essay.

Question 45

How does the style and subject matter of the back panels of Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece differ from the main panel?

Question 46

Assess the role of light in Gothic architecture both from the symbolic and from the structural point of view.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 47

The Gothic era was characterized by a diversity of artistic and architectural tastes.Choose examples of painting,sculpture,and architecture to prove this statement.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 48

Identify the French and Italian characteristics of this building.

Question 49

Discuss the contribution of classical antiquity to Gothic art and architecture.Use examples to support your essay.

Question 50

Attribute the images on the screen to a culture and give an approximate date.Give the reasons for your attributions,using complete sentences and referring to specific works discussed in class.

Question 51

Contrast these two images.What do they reveal about the diversity of tastes in the fourteenth century?

Question 52

Contrast Chartres Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral.How does each cathedral reflect its regional style? What elements are similar? What elements are different and why?

Question 53

Evaluate the political and artistic implications of Duccio's Maestà.How was this artist innovative? What influences impacted this work?

Question 54

How does the artist reveal political intent in this image?

Question 55

Compare the style and subject matter of the Arena Chapel by Giotto with Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government in the City and in the Country.What are the differences and how does each artist reflect his environment? Use examples to support your essay.