Early Europe

Question 1

Catacomb of Priscilla

Answer 1

Fresco- easier than mosaic, cheaper

Question 2

Santa Sabina DATE

Answer 2

422-432 CE

Use of spolia

Question 3

Vienna Genesis

ESSAY

Answer 3

Rebecca and Eliezar at the wall and Jacob Wrestling the Angel 
Early Byzantine Europe- 6th century
Illuminated manuscript
Painted vellum
First surviving illustration of stories of Genesis
Motifs from classical: contrapposto,  foreshortening, shadowing, perspective
References ancient world 
Rebecca- water goddess 
Jacob- Roman style bridge
Painted silver ink, now black 
Purple parchment=royalty 
Vellum- expensive

Question 4

San Vitale

PLAN

Answer 4

Round center

Question 5

Hagia Sofia

Answer 5

Pendentive- triangle piece of masonry w dome on one side, other sides channel weight
Translates to holy wisdom

Question 6

Merovingian looped fibula

Answer 6

Garment clasps

Question 7

Virgin and Child bt St Theodore and George

DATE

Answer 7

6th or 7th century CE

Question 8

Lindisfarne gospels

Answer 8

Oldest surviving manuscript of bible in English

Horrovaccui

Question 9

Great mosque

PLAN

Answer 9

Square

Question 10

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Answer 10

Ivory

Container for expensive aromatics

Question 11

Church of Saints-Foy

Answer 11

Romanesque portal

LAST JUDGEMENT: tympanum

Question 12

Sainte-Foy: reliquary figure

Answer 12

Compared to reliquary figure AFRICA

protect ashes of dead

Question 13

Bayeux tapestry

Answer 13

Tells story of Williams conquest of England at the battle of Hastings

Question 14

Chartres Cathedral

Answer 14

Gothic style

Flying buttress- stone arch supporting roof, travel down outside building

Question 15

Bibles moralisees

Answer 15

Moralized bible
Left: mother to the king
Top right: king Louis IX
Bottom: older monk and younger scribe

Question 16

Rottgen Pieta

Answer 16

Christ emaciated

Horror of crucifixion

Question 17

Arena chapel

DATE

Answer 17

1303 CE

built to atone for sin of usury

Question 18

Last judgement

Answer 18

Fresco
Christ as a judge
Coming to end of the world

Question 19

Golden haggadah

Answer 19

Story of Jewish exodus from Egypt under Moses

Question 20

Alhambra

PLAN

Answer 20

Elaborate

Question 21

Annunciation triptych

Answer 21

Left: middle class kneeling
Right: Joseph in carpentry shop
Center: annunciation

Question 22

Pazzi chapel

ARTIST

Answer 22

Filippo Brunelleschi

Question 23

Arnolfini portrait

ARTIST

Answer 23

Jan van Eyck

Question 24

David

ARTIST

Answer 24

Donatello

First large bronze nude

Question 25

Palazzo rucellai

ARTIST

Answer 25

Leon Batista Alberti

Pilasters: flat columns on wall

Question 26

Madonna and child with two angels

ARTIST and DATE

Answer 26

Fra Filippo Lippi

1465 CE

Question 27

Birth of Venus

ESSAY

Answer 27

Sandro Botticelli 
1484-1486 CE
Tempera on canvas
Venus father cronos casts his genitals into the sea which Venus is born
Based on court poem by Poliziano
Emerges fully grown from sea foam
Roses created at same time, represents pain in beauty and love
Figures float
Pale colors
Unrealistic landscape
Medici commission

Question 28

Last supper

Answer 28

Moment when Jesus says “one of you will betray me”

Question 29

Beaker with ibex motifs

Answer 29

Burials

Question 30

Repouse

Answer 30

Hammered from behind

Question 31

Great serpent mound

Answer 31

Effigy- 3D representation

Question 32

Malangan mask

Answer 32

Dismissing dead

Question 33

Great stupa

Answer 33

Resting Place for religious object

Question 34

Tarashicomi

Answer 34

Plum blossoms

Question 35

Great wave

Answer 35

Katzushiku Hocusi

Question 36

Baptistery

Answer 36

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