Chapter 15: Christian Art Flashcards
The Christian Artistic Periods are Early _________; Byzantine; Early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic Art.
Christian
The conversion of the pagan world to Christianity was accompanied by the rejection of the classical style in sculpture and painting and the emergence of a new non-naturalistic, sacred aesthetic featuring wafer-thin, frontal figures and gold backgrounds.
a. True
b. False
a. True
Commissioned by the Roman Emperor Justinian, _______________ in Ravenna was one of the most elaborate buildings decorated in the Byzantine style. It was designed as a central plan church, with an octagonal perimeter and a narthex set off axis to the apse.
a. San Vitale
b. Chartres Cathedral
c. Notre-Dame
a. San Vitale
The apse mosaics Justinian and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale, represents the new __________________ style at its peak of perfection—of the divine style. It points the way toward a manner of representation in which the corporeality of the body is less significant that the soul.
a. Early Christian
b. Byzantine
c. Early Medieval
d. Romanesque
e. Gothic
b. Byzantine
When Constantine moved his capital to the eastern port city of Byzantium, the city became known as __________; today the city is called Istanbul.
Constantinople
___________________, like Judaism and Christianity, is a monotheistic religion in the Abrahamic tradition. Islam dates its beginning from the flight of Muhammad from Mecca called Hegira — in 622 CE.
a. Paganism
b. Islam
c. Buddhism
d. Hinduism
b. Islam
In the Romanesque age, immense churches with stone vaults rose throughout Europe, didactic relief sculptures adorned church portals and cloisters, and the relics of saints were housed in gold and silver and enamel reliquaries.
a. True
b. False
a. True
The Romanesque Period is called “The age of ______.”
Pilgrimages
The Romanesque Period was also fascinated by the “Cult of the Saints”. Reliquaries made out of actual gold and silver, encrusted with gems: housed body parts of saints. The relics were supposed to have divine mystical power to heal.
a. True
b. False
a. True
- The term _______ originated among historians who believed that the Goths were responsible for the style of the period.
Gothic
If the chief iconographic theme of Romanesque sculpture had been damnation, the chief Gothic theme was _________.
redemption
Built North-South-East-West ______________________________ is generally considered to be the first High Gothic church, and was planned to have a three-level wall elevation and flying buttresses. Because of the use of large clerestory windows, the stained glass floods the interior with Divine Light.
a. San Vitale
b. Chartres Cathedral
c. Notre-Dame
b. Chartres Cathedral
