Chapter 14 (Late Medieval/Proto-Renaissance)

Question 1

Who was responsible for bridging the gap between late gothic and proto-renaissance

Answer 1

Giotto

Question 2

Giotto based his paintings on…

Answer 2

…what he would / could actually see in real life

Question 3

The Renaissance was the rebirth of…

Answer 3

Greek and Roman art

Question 4

Giotto’s masterpiece

Answer 4

The Scrovegni (or Arena) Chapel

Question 5

Common themes on the inside of the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel

Answer 5

Sins relating to money (because Scrovegni was worried he would suffer for the sins of his father which were money related)

Question 6

In contrast to other monastic orders, the ____ lived and preached in urban environments.

Answer 6

…Mendicant

Question 7

What did the humanist cult of fame emphasize?

Answer 7

…The importance of creative individuals

Question 8

The ____ of Duccio’s figures from the Maestà was/were derived from Byzantine art.

Answer 8

…formality and symmetry

Question 9

Which city was at its height of political and economic power when it employed the talents of the sculptor Nicola Pisano?

Answer 9

…Pisa

Question 10

In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries?

Answer 10

…France

Question 11

The artist ____ was instrumental in creating the International Gothic style.

Answer 11

…Simone Martini

Question 12

The most devastating natural disaster in Europe that broke out in the 1340s was ____.

Answer 12

…the Black Death

Question 13

Simone Martini’s rendition of Annunciation may have been inspired by ____.

Answer 13

…the etiquette of chivalric courts

Question 14

____ was the leading Roman painter at the end of the 13th century.

Answer 14

…Pietro Cavallini

Question 15

Which of the following cities established itself as a major shipping power?

Answer 15

…Pisa

Question 16

The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling as seen in Berlinghieri’s Saint Francis Altarpiece reveals the ____ roots of his style.

Answer 16

…fundamentally medieval

Question 17

Whose work is best characterized by the use of solid volumes resting firmly on the flat and horizontal surface of this earth?

Answer 17

…Giotto

Question 18

A familiar feature in French Gothic art, the loosely curved folds of the female saints in Duccio’s Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Maestà) is a feature of ____ art.

Answer 18

…​French Gothic

Question 19

Confraternities were ____ who dedicated themselves to strict religious observance.

Answer 19

…laypeople

Question 20

The setting for Pietro Lorenzetti’s Birth of the Virgin, which was a ____, represented an advance in worldly realism.

Answer 20

…detailed interior of an upper-class house

Question 21

Elements of Giotto’s new style that appear in the Madonna Enthroned include ____.

Answer 21

…statuesque figures that cast shadows

Question 22

One of Giotto’s innovations that moved away from the Italo-Byzantine style was the introduction of ____.

Answer 22

…figures seen from the back

Question 23

The Roman fresco tradition can best be seen in the work of which of the following artists?

Answer 23

…Cavallini

Question 24

The Italian admiration for classical art resurfaced at ____.

Answer 24

…the court of Frederick II

Question 25

Which of the following cities was considered the rightful capital of the Roman Catholic Church?

Answer 25

…Rome

Question 26

Who is the architect for the cathedral of Florence?

Answer 26

…Arnolfo di Cambio

Question 27

Andrea Pisano’s south doors for Florence’s baptistery were commissioned by ____.

Answer 27

…the guild of wool importers

Question 28

Commissioned by the Sienese government, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes for the Palazzo Pubblico address the ____.

Answer 28

…civic concerns of the Sienese

Question 29

____ sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty three-dimensional body and the illusion of space to contain it.

Answer 29

…Giotto

Question 30

The facial types, beards, and coiffures of ____ figures reveal the influence of classical relief sculpture.

Answer 30

…Nicola Pisano’s

Question 31

The imagery of the Triumph of Death served as a warning against ____.

Answer 31

…lust and greed