Deck 13: Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy

Question 1

Who painted figures as geometric bodies and rendered them as three-dimensional shapes through the use of light?

A) Duccio
B) Ambrogio Lorenzo
C) Andrea Pisano
D) Giotto

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Franciscans and Dominicans were religious orders located mostly in the countryside in remote monasteries.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The wealthiest and most influential cities that were organized as representative republics were:

A) Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Venice
B) Prato, Avignon, Tripoli, and Naples
C) Pistoia, Wittenberg, Arezzo, and Bari
D) Urbino, Milan, Rome, and Naples

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The Christian altar traditionally is a narrow stone "table" that contains bone fragments of a martyr within it.

Question 5

The study of which cultures profoundly changed the culture and art of Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries?

A) Greece and Rome
B) Egypt and Mesopotamia
C) Minoan and Mycenaean
D) Romanesque and Gothic

Question 6

The Franciscans and Dominicans were:

A) Famous political organizations
B) Insignificant to artistic developments
C) Mendicant orders
D) Found only in princely states

Question 7

The mendicant orders lived by:

A) owning property
B) collecting alms
C) selling religious services
D) observing a strictly cloistered life

Question 8

What kind of church is Santa Croce in Florence?

A) Dominican
B) civic
C) Augustian
D) Franciscan

Question 9

Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio were:

A) political figures
B) exclusively religious authors
C) members of mendicant orders
D) writers

Question 10

Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art had its roots in both Byzantine forms and Italian artists' contacts with Roman and Early Christian precedents.

Question 11

Enrico Scrovegni was the patron of:

A) The Palazzo della Signoria
B) The Good and Bad Government frescoes
C) Andrea Pisano's bronze doors
D) The Arena Chapel

Question 12

What are the tables, or low stones, that are the focal point of Christian religious worship?

A) Altars
B) Baptisteries
C) Naves
D) Transepts

Question 13

What are two important painting techniques from the period?

A) Tempera and fresco
B) Oil and encaustic
C) Bronze and marble
D) Watercolor and acrylic

Question 14

What had a substantial impact on the culture and society of Italy in the fourteenth century?

A) the plague
B) oil paint
C) running water
D) surgery

Question 15

The Baptistery of Florence is a focal point of pride because of whose role as patron saint of the city?

A) St. John
B) St. Matthew
C) Sta. Croce
D) St. Mark

Question 16

The theme of Ambroio Lorenzetti's frescoes in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena is:

A) Christian Redemption
B) Good and Bad Government
C) The stories of the Virgin and Christ
D) Franciscan and Dominican mendicant activities

Question 17

The Arena Chapel is known by that name because

A) because of its location near an ancient Roman arena
B) of the similarities of its architecture to ancient Roman arenas
C) because gladiatorial contests took place there
D) because Giovanni Arena paid for its completion

Question 18

For whom did Giovanni dei Grassi make a book of hours?

A) Arnolfo di Cambio
B) Petrarch
C) Giangaleazzo Visconti
D) Giotto

Question 19

In the fresco technique pigments are mixed with water and applied to the surface of wet plaster.

Question 20

What kind of painting was generally used for painting on walls?

A) Fresco
B) Tempera
C) Oil
D) Watercolor

Question 21

What influence did the mendicant religious orders exert on the development of art in thirteenth and fourteenth century in Italy?

Question 22

Compare and contrast Giotto's Madonna Enthroned and Duccio's Madonna Enthroned? How might you account for evident similarities and differences in these two works?

Question 23

What impact did the plague or Black Death have on Italian society in the fourteenth century?

Question 24

How did Giangaleazzo Visconti use the visual arts as tools to celebrate his status?

Question 25

What similarities in style, expression, and narrative treatment do you see between Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel and his Madonna Enthroned?

Question 26

Municipal patrons, like the city of Siena, commissioned works of art to proclaim and further their accomplishments.

Question 27

How did Ambrogio Lorenzetti represent the subjects of Good and Bad Government in his frescoes for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena?

Question 28

Describe how the urban environment of Florence changed in this period with the construction of the Cathedral and Palazzo della Signoria, and the decoration of the Baptistery. How do these developments represent both political and religious emphases in the city?

Question 29

What is significant about Giotto's style of painting in terms of style and narrative emphases?