Deck 12: Precursors of the Renaissance

Question 1

The Roman soldiers in the foreground of Giotto's Crucifixion

A) are torturing Christ
B) are arguing over possession of his cloak
C) are repenting their sins
D) are leaving the scene

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Giotto's Virtue of Justice

A) reflects emerging ideas about good and bad government
B) is represented as blind
C) is seated in a Renaissance building
D) has no relationship to Classical antiquity

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following had the least influence on Giotto?

A) International style
B) Cimabue
C) Gothic French sculpture
D) art of ancient Rome

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which is not a feature of the Divine Comedy?

A) it was written in Latin
B) Virgil is Dante's guide through the Inferno
C) it is divided into three parts
D) it is a source for Italian history

Question 5

The length of Mary Magdalen's hair is an example of

A) a Renaissance coiffure
B) her seductive nature
C) an iconographic convention
D) a typological symbol

Question 6

Which of the following was not part of the Classical revival?

A) anecdotes about artists
B) comparisons with antiquity
C) three-dimensional form
D) translating Latin texts
E) a rejection of Italian history

Question 7

Which is not true of Giotto's Last Judgment?

A) Christ is seated in a mandorla
B) Enrico Scrovegni's portrait is included
C) Christ faces the Saved
D) only the figures in Hell are nude
E) the angels above Christ are in military dress

Question 8

In contrast to Duccio's Maestà,Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government is

A) secular
B) more Byzantine in style
C) more Christian in its iconography
D) was commissioned by the Nine
E) a reflection of the influence of International Gothic

Question 9

The Arena Chapel in Padua

A) is part of a larger church
B) is Gothic in style
C) illustrates Dante's Divine Comedy
D) represents three sets of lives

Question 10

Which of the following was not a 14^th-century humanist?

A) Boccaccio
B) Petrarch
C) Giotto
D) Dante

Question 11

In the scene of the Annunciation

A) Gabriel tells Mary she will be the mother of Christ
B) God tells Mary she will be the mother of Christ
C) Mary tells Joseph she will be the mother of Christ
D) Mary has a dream telling her she will be the mother of Christ

Question 12

The monastic order that put an emphasis on nature and the individual was

A) Cistercian
B) Benedictine
C) Dominican
D) Franciscan

Question 13

"The mortal pestilence" described by Boccaccio refers to

A) the sinfulness of Florence
B) the failure of the Bardi and Peruzzi banks
C) the Triumph of Death
D) the Black Death

Question 14

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good Government was commissioned for the Palazzo Pubblico of __________.

A) Siena
B) Urbino
C) Florence
D) Rome

Question 15

Which is not true of Giotto's Crucifixion?

A) it refers to typology
B) it takes place in Jerusalem
C) it depicts the effects of gravity
D) Christ's form is elongated
E) it emphasizes the distinction between the Romans and Christ's followers

Question 16

The painter Cimabue was deeply influenced by _________.

A) The court of Charlemagne
B) Byzantine icons
C) Giotto
D) Claus Sluter

Question 17

Giotto's Nativity differs from that of Nicola Pisano in that

A) it combines two scenes in one space
B) it is more sculptural
C) it is later
D) it is more dramatic

Question 18

In the Arena Chapel,the Virtues and Vices

A) are in the top row of scenes
B) are in between the narrative scenes
C) are between panels of imitation marble
D) are on the ceiling

Question 19

Which is not true of St.Francis of Assisi?

A) he wrote The Canticle of Brother Sun
B) he came from a wealthy family
C) he received the stigmata as punishment for his sins
D) he established the Friars Minor

Question 20

Giotto was important because he

A) went back to nature as his guide as had the Greeks and Romans
B) used direct experience to judge truth
C) believed that what we see is the basis of art
D) went back to nature as his guide as had the Greeks and Romans, used direct experience to judge truth, and believed that what we see is the basis of art

Question 21

Philip the Bold's court was located in

A) Siena
B) Berry
C) Dijon
D) Flanders

Question 22

Which is not an example of royal patronage?

A) Simone Martini's Saint Louis Altarpiece
B) the Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry
C) the Well of Moses
D) the Maestà

Question 23

Which of these does not match?

A) Limbourg Brothers -- Very Rich Hours
B) Dante -- Life of Saint Francis
C) Orcagna -- Triumph of Death
D) Boccaccio -- The Decameron

Question 24

The patron of Les Trés Riches Heures was

A) John, duke of Berry
B) Giovanni Arnolfini
C) Tommaso Portinari
D) Philip the Bold

Question 25

Claus Sluter's work was like

A) Simone for its lightness
B) Giotto's for its massiveness
C) Cimbue's for its Byzantine finish
D) Michelangelo's for its Greek classicism

Question 26

Burgundy

A) was a tributary of the French crown
B) was ruled by relatives of French kings
C) independent of the French throne
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 27

Books of Hours were made for

A) the clergy
B) the peasants
C) the artists
D) the aristocracy

Question 28

Philip the Bold of Burgundy built the

A) Chartreuse de Champmol
B) Hospital des Invalides
C) Palazzo Pubblico of Siena
D) Town Hall of Ghent

Question 29

Who is the sculptor of the Well of Moses?

A) Giotto
B) Claus Sluter
C) Tilman Riemenschneider
D) Cimabue