1. Test Review for Chapters 14, 15, 16
Early Medieval C.E.
Romanesque
Gothic

2. Be able to identify a work of art as:
Early Medieval
Romanesque
Gothic

3. patrons
Who are the primary patrons during these three periods?
Who are the “famous” patrons? What names do we know?
Who would commission the creation of a
reliquary?
altarpiece?
Gothic cathedral?
psalter?
book of hours?
illuminated book of the gospels?
frescoed chapel (like the one in Padua)?
carved ivory panels?
mediums
fresco
panel painting
stained glass
rib vaulting/barrel vaults (roman vaults)
illuminated manuscripts
What are specific terms you must know for each medium?
What are specific technical details that you must know?

4. Architecture:
Do you know the technical terms to describe the different parts of a church?
Do you understand why certain architectural innovations were introduced?
Do you understand the purpose of different architectural decisions?
For example:
Why is the monk’s dormitory in an abbey monastery immediately adjacent to the church?
What is the purpose of the cloister?
What is the purpose of a scriptorium?
What is a keystone?
Why is wood so important for constructing vaults?

5. Big Ideas: Social Order: typological interrelationships Scholasticism
Benedictine Rule
Pseudo Dionysius and Abbot Suger
divine order
different representations of Christ
the construction of illusionistic space
medieval perspective
hierarchical scale
using light and shade to model drapery and the human form
the purpose of sculptural programs
Social Order:
What are the five most important monastic orders? What is most significant about each?
Why does the Black Death matter?
Why do the living conditions of medieval peasants matter?

6. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?

7. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
MINIATURIST, English The Monk Eadwine c Illumination on parchment, 457 x 330 mm Trinity College, Cambridge

8. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?

9. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
WILIGELMO Creation of Adam and Eve, Fall of Man 1100s Marble, height 100 cm Cathedral of San Geminiano, Modena
What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?

10. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
GOTHIC SCULPTOR, French Figures on the north transept Stone Cathedral, Chartres

11. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
Duccio
Death of the Virgin

12. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
SIMONE MARTINI St Andrew c Tempera on wood, gold ground, 57,2 x 37,8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

13. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
GIOTTO di Bondone No. 48 The Seven Vices: Envy 1306 Fresco, 120 x 55 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

14. What special “technical” terms do you need to know?
What is the intended function of this work?
How did religion affect the production of this work of art?
GIOTTO di Bondone The Resurrection
1306 Fresco, 120 x 55 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

15. Pietro LORENZETTI
Deposition of Christ from the Cross c Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi

16. Please explain: a. in which direction are you looking b
Please explain: a. in which direction are you looking b. through what part of the cathedral you are looking c. what prominent architectural feature the master builder has used to unify this space Rheims Cathedral begun in 1211; almost “complete” by 1285

17. What is the space delineated by E called
What is the space delineated by E called? What is the space delineated by F called? What is the structural element labeled C called? What is the structural element labeled D called?

18. This section of the nave is called. This section of the nave is called
This section of the nave is called? This section of the nave is called? This section of the nave is called? Amiens Cathedral begun in 1220; almost “complete” by 1375

19. Please describe what you are looking at
Please describe what you are looking at. Try to use as many specific technical terms as you can. Rheims Cathedral begun in 1211; almost “complete” by 1285

20. Please describe what you are looking at
Please describe what you are looking at. Make sure that you explain the structural purpose of this architectural feature.

21. What is the name of this architectural feature
What is the name of this architectural feature? How are these different from the one shown in the previous slide? Notre Dame, Paris

22. You are looking at the exterior of the nave
You are looking at the exterior of the nave. What language would you use to describe how the surface of the windows and the window frames has been highly decorated? Amiens Cathedral begun in 1220; almost “complete” by 1375

23. You are looking at the west façade
You are looking at the west façade. Why do you know that this façade is definitely “Gothic” and not “Romanesque?” Amiens Cathedral begun in 1220; almost “complete” by 1375

24. Why do you know that this west façade is definitely Romanesque
Why do you know that this west façade is definitely Romanesque? St Peter's Cathedral Angoulême, Charente, France

25. This is a floor plan of a cathedral. Is this a Gothic cathedral
This is a floor plan of a cathedral. Is this a Gothic cathedral? How can you tell? Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d’ Autun

26. How can you tell that this plan represents a pilgrimage church
How can you tell that this plan represents a pilgrimage church? Plan of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

27. How can you tell that this plan represents a Gothic cathedral
How can you tell that this plan represents a Gothic cathedral? Which one?