Test 3.15 Flashcards
_____________ are an unassailble witness to human passion.
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Governments
Cathedrals
Mosques
Relationships
Cathedrals
The _______ were the secret burial places for Christians beneath the city streets. A huge network of galleries and burial chambers that accommodated almost 6 million bodies existed beneath the city of Rome.
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Catacombs
Tombs
Sewers
Basements
Catacombs
One of the first and most important buildings to be erected during the Earl Christian period was the first ________________ in Rome.
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Basilica of St. Mary
Roman Catholic Cathedral
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Church of John the Baptist
St. Peter’s Cathedral
We may describe the difference between Early Christian and ____________ art as a transfer from an earthbound realism to a more spiritual, other worldly style.
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Carolignian
Roman
French
Byzantine
Byzantine
The 1,000 years that span 400ce and 1400 ce have been called the ________ -__ or the “Dark Ages”. Some historians consider this millenium a holding pattern between the era of Classical Rome and the rebirth of its art and culture in the Renaissance of the 15th century.
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Early days
Middle ages
Mesolithic period
Begining of time
Middle ages
The period of Charlemagne’s supremacy is called the ___________ period
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Northern
Holy Roman
Carolingian
Charmed
Carolingian
__________________________ , a panel from the bronze doors of St. Mary’s Cathedral represents the first sculpture cast in one piece during the Middle ages.
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Baptism of John
Jesus entering Jerusalem
Joseph and Mary
Adam and Eve reproached by the Lord
Adam and Eve reproached by the Lord
Two phenomena reflected the medival obsession with salvation in the afterlife: _________ and _____________.
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Pentance and Sacrifice
Confession and Pentance
The Crusades and the great pilgrimages
Cathedrals and Antiquites
The Crusades and the great pilgrimages
The history of ___________ architecture can be written as a history of vaulting techniques, and the need for light provided the incentive for their development.
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Gothic
Roman
Greek
Romanesque
Romanesque
Some of the most important and elaborate sculpture decoration is found in the Cathedrals ___________- a semi-circular space above the doors to a Cathedral.
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entry-way
tympanum
rotunda
radiating chapels
tympanum
Art and Architecture of the 12th and 13th centuries is called _________.
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Gothic
Romanesque
Beautiful
original
Gothic
In Gothic arches, the space between the ribs were filled in with cut stone. At St. Denis the pointed arch is used in the structural skeleton rather than the _________ arches of the Romanesque style.
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vaulted
circular
ribbed
rounded
rounded
High Gothic construction of Chartres Cathedral exhibit the use of large windows in the clestory made possible by the development of the ______________________.
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Larger columns
Stronger material- cement
flying buttress
hidden cables
flying buttress
Sculpture during the Gothic period exhibit a great change in the mood from that of the Romanesque. The _____________ is one of redemption rather than damnation.
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iconography
imagery
sculpture
representation
iconography
Some of the most advanced full scale sculpture is to be found adorning the _________.
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rectery doors
Colanade
porticos
jambs
jambs
