Deck 12: Gothic Art

Question 1

Where did Gothic architecture originate?

A) Rome
B) Paris
C) London
D) Ravenna

Answer 1

B

Question 2

With what are the sections of stained glass windows are held together?

A) pressure
B) tracery
C) mortar
D) strips of lead

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Because of its composition and delicacy, what material was often used for illuminated manuscripts?

A) Gold leaf
B) Copper
C) Graphite
D) Pastel

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Gothic architecture spreads from France to England and Germany, among other areas.

Question 5

High Gothic buildings are typified by horizontality and dark interiors.

Question 6

What did Gothic builders develop to stabilize their naves?

A) pendentives
B) lancets
C) portals
D) flying buttresses

Question 7

Which architectural element does the interior of Saint Denis NOT show?

A) Barrel vaulting
B) Compound piers
C) Stained glass windows
D) A double ambulatory

Question 8

Which is a common feature of Gothic architecture?

A) abbey churches in the countryside
B) tympanums with a subject of a stern Last Judgment
C) rose windows
D) horizontal emphasis

Question 9

Gothic cathedrals were often dedicated to:

A) Christ the stern judge
B) The Virgin Mary
C) The Last Judgment
D) St. Peter

Question 10

Gothic architecture

A) Never used vaults
B) Eliminated the ambulatory
C) Emphasized verticality, light and open space
D) Was decorated in the animal style

Question 11

The Roettgen Pieta belongs to what category of objects?

A) sorrowful images
B) Andachtsbild (contemplation image)
C) Romanesque
D) illuminated manuscripts

Question 12

Who was responsible for the reconstruction of the choir at Saint-Denis?

A) Abbot Suger
B) Carolus Magnus
C) Junius Bassus
D) Jeanne d'Evreux

Question 13

Which material was key to the stained glass process, both for firing furnaces and kilns and for making potash?

A) Wood
B) Clay
C) Basalt
D) Copper

Question 14

In the Middle Ages, what word meaning "master" was a title conferred by a trade organization, or guild, on a member who had achieved the highest level of skill in the guild's profession or craft?

A) Magister
B) Opus modernum
C) Belle Verrière
D) Rayonnant

Question 15

Which is NOT a characteristic of Gothic architecture?

A) churches in the city
B) large expanses of colored glass
C) pointed arches
D) low, dark naves

Question 16

A private prayer book is called

A) Book of Hours
B) Contemplation Image
C) Memento mori
D) Matins and Vespers

Question 17

What was Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, patron of?

A) The church of St. Denis
B) The Psalter of St. Louis
C) The Virgin of Paris
D) A Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Pucelle

Question 18

Who had the first Gothic church built?

A) Abbot Suger
B) Louis V
C) the pope
D) St. Denis

Question 19

A version of the classical contrapposto stance is not found in Gothic sculpture.

Question 20

Most large Gothic churches in western Europe were built with what type of plan?

A) central
B) octagonal
C) cross
D) hypostyle

Question 21

The impetus for the construction of Sainte-Chapelle was the acquisition of holy relics such as the Crown of Thorns and other items associated with Christ's passion.

Question 22

How is stained glass produced and what visual qualities does it bring to the interior of Gothic structures?

Question 23

How does Gothic sculpture differ from Romanesque sculpture? How does the imagery differ?

Question 24

Compare and contrast the presentation of the Virgin Mary and Christ in the Virgin of Paris and the Roettgen Pieta. What different perspectives on these figures and on the Christian story are presented in these works?

Question 25

Why are so many Gothic churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary?

Question 26

What features are characteristic of Gothic architecture? How did aspects of medieval structural engineering contribute to the form and visual qualities of Gothic cathedrals?

Question 27

The term "Gothic" was used in the sixteenth century to describe a style of building thought to have descended from the Goths.