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Difference between Romanesque and gothic architecture

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Romanesque: Horizontal, modest height, multiple units, rounded arch, piers and walls, barrel and groin vaults, dark, solemn, simple, severe, damnation

Gothic: vertical, soaring, unified, unbroken space, pointed arch, exterior buttresses, ribbed groin vaults, airy bright stained glass windows, richly decorated with sculpture, salvation

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High Renaissance vs. Mannerism

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Normal vs. abnormal
Direct vs. elaborate
Controlled vs. disjointed
Harmonious vs. conflicted
Normative vs. uncanonical
Easily posed vs. tensely posed
Balance vs. contrasted
Natural vs. artificial
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Technical term for a vaulted, semicircular recess at the end of an aisle, a chapel, or the chancel of a church

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Apse

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The most important forces that influence the development of Romanesque architecture

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Pilgrimages and monasticism

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The greatest center of pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages was?

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Santiago de compostela

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In the Middle Ages, which language did scholars in Western Europe generally use

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Latin

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The distinguishing feature of many Romanesque churches is?

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Barrel vaults

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The model for charlemagnes architectural Renaissance was?

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San vitale

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This woven document narrates the events in the Norman conquest of Britain

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Bayeaux tapestry

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Name of the notable sculptor responsible for much of the monumental sculpture at autun cathedral

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Gislebertus

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Anything that is used as container for memorabilia of a saint of the Catholic Church

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Reliquary

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This architectural structure proved to be a useful addition to Romanesque churches

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Ambulatories

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A unique architectural feature in Italian Romanesque churches which will continue into the gothic period

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The independent campanille

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It is in this cathedral that the elements of the gothic reach their most perfect harmony

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Chartres

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An important new technique in the paintings of Giotto

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Atmospheric perspective

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This cathedral was the intellectual center of Western Europe during the late Middle Ages

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Notre dame in Paris

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A unique peculiarity of this monumental gotchic cathedral in France is that its twin spire are uneven and different in style

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Chartres

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We say that the gothic was born between 1137 and 1144 under the leader ship of?

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Abbot sugger

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Which was the first country to adopt the gothic outside of France

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England

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The great difference between the Romanesque theme and the gothic theme

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Damnation vs. salvation

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The two great centers of the late Italian gothic period are?

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Florence and siena

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This architectural element became a standard of gothic church decoration

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Column statues

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Giottos masterpiece frescos are found in the?

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Arena chapel in Padua

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This philosopher was able to integrate faith and reason in what came to be known as scholastic philosophy

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Saint Thomas aquinas

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This sculpture is also a metaphor of the miraculous victory of right over wrong

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David

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This fresco by lorenzitti in Siena is considered the first panoramic work in western art

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The effects of good government

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The patron family of Florence in the 15th century was the?

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Medicis

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The work of Renaissance painters benefitted from the invention of what medium

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Oils

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The subject matter of botticellis Spring is?

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Mythology

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Technical term for the use of light and shade in a painting

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Chiaroscuro

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What is a major innovation of Flemish painters

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Complex treatment of light and detail

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A series of short, circular posts with a rail ontop: sometimes you will find ironwork under the rail

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Balustrade

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The focus of Andrea del castagnos monumental last supper is on?

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Not on Christ but of the youthful apostle John

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Who was the most innovative of early Italian Renaissance painters

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Masaccio

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Which was the first large scale bronze equestrian portrait since antiquity

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Donatellos equestrian statue of erasmo de narni

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The overall appearance of botticellis primavera recalls?

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Flemish tapestries

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Where did theatre-dance become a successful art form

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France

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In oil painting, a technique in which a heavy amount of paint is applied to the canvas with a hard bristle brush

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Impasto

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In oil painting, a technique in which layer after layer is applied with a very soft hair brush to achieve the effect of translucence

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Glazing

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The only painter who was extremely successful during his lifetime, in fact, he became quite wealthy as a result of the commissions he received from all corners of Europe

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Rubens

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The altar of the cornaro chapel can be described as?

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A multimedia art work which mixes sculpture, gilded bronze, architecture, and even the effects of light from a window

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Berninis david is characterized by?

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Baroque naturalism

The foreshortening is necessary to achieve the dynamic effect

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The emergence of the rococo style in painting is marked by the career of the French artist?

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Watteau

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The artist most closely associated today with the height of the rococo and particularly noted for his nudes is?

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Boucher

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The French Protestants were known by the name?

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Huguenots

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The fountain of the four rivers is located in?

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The piazza navona in Rome

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This baroque artist has been called the painter of the soul

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Rembrandt

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___________ became a new and popular medium for rococo painters

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Pastel

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The rococo is linked to the court of?

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Louis XV

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This work by the painter Jacques Louis David ante-dates the French Revolution yet indicates attitudes that would be cherished by the French revolutionaries

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The oath of the horatii

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The greatest mistake of the French national constituent assembly was?

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None of its members were eligible for election to the new legislative assembly

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These series of meetings held in 1815 decided the geo-political situation of Europe after the defeats of Napoleon

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Congress of vienna

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In Jacques Louis David’s death of Marat we notice a clear influence of the the painter:

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Caravaggio

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What element in Ingres la grande obalisque makes the painting easily recognizable as romantic

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The exoticism of a harem

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The painting Liberty leading the people can be described with the literary term:

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Allegory

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Impressionism as an artistic movement was given that name from a two dimensional work by the painter

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Monet

57
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In Pierre Augustae renoirs moulin de la gallete we can notice the influence of one of _________ most famous works

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Manet

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The best known of degas themes is ________, an entertainment that played an important role in the upper middle class social life at the time

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Ballet

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Expressionism aims at what

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Expressing truth in deep emotional terms

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The artist is required to express the vortex of modern life, a life of steel, machinery, and velocity

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Futurists

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In guaguins paintings during his maturity you find?

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An invitation to leave a sorry industrial society and return to Eden

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Important characteristics of David’s paintings death of Marat:

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Drama and intense emotion

Image recalls the dead Jesus

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Which of the following apply to the painting by gericault raft of the medusa

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Expose of human tragedy and injustice

Recognizance influence of michaelangelos last judgment in the Sistine chapel

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The seminal work in cubism is?

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Demoiselles davignon

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The quintessential painting of the romantic period is?

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Liberty leading the people, 1830

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Edyard munch can be identified with:

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Irrational eroticism

The painting the scream

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George Seurat is identified with:

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Pointilism

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