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Art History 2024 New Update Exam Questions with Correct Answers Which of the following statements about cathedrals is FALSE? - Answer-They were built primarily in rural areas. To whom were most French Gothic cathedrals dedicated? - Answer-the Virgin Mary What were the most common colors used...

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Questions with Correct Answers
Which of the following statements about cathedrals is FALSE? - Answer-They were built
primarily in rural areas.

To whom were most French Gothic cathedrals dedicated? - Answer-the Virgin Mary

What were the most common colors used in Gothic stained-glass windows? - Answer-
Blue and red

What is the term for the iron frame that holds together individual units in a stained-glass
window? - Answer-armature

Which of the following elements is NOT a part of a Gothic structure's skeleton? -
Answer-The Wall

What architectural feature did Charlemagne's palace chapel share with the Church of
San Vitale in Ravenna? - Answer-Central planning

In the late eighth century, Charlemagne moved his capital to which city, where he had
an impressive palace chapel built? - Answer-Aachen

In the Middle Ages, Christians often made pilgrimages to reliquaries, which are best
defined as - Answer-houses for the physical remains of saints.

High Gothic cathedrals were measured according to which two criteria? - Answer-
luminosity and height

Which of the following groups is NOT represented in the arches of the Royal Portal of
Chartres? - Answer-Old Testament kings and queens

Which of the following architectural features was NOT a standard part of Gothic
architecture? - Answer-rounded arches

Which region of Europe adopted the Gothic style last and abandoned it the soonest -
Answer-Italy

Who is credited with inventing the Gothic style? - Answer-Sugar

Where did the Gothic style originate? - Answer-France

, Which of the following statements about Gothic architecture is FALSE? - Answer-It was
so named because of its German origins and distinctly Germanic traits.

Which of the following elements is more characteristic of the work of Giotto than the
work of Duccio, as exemplified in their respective renditions of the Kiss of Judas? -
Answer-long, curvilinear planes

Who painted Allegories of Good and Bad Government (1338-39)? - Answer-Lorenzetti

An important difference between the work of Duccio and that of Giotto is that Duccio's
work - Answer-gave figures and objects a sense of weightlessness.

Who was the central and largest figure in Duccio's Maestà? - Answer-Mary

An important distinction between the Nativities and Annunciations depicted by Pisano
and Giotto is that Giotto's rendering - Answer-uses fewer figures in order to enhance the
dramatic essence of the scene.

The patch of a fresco painting that an artist completed in a day was called - Answer-a
giornata.

In their respective renderings of Madonna Enthroned, both Cimabue and Giotto -
Answer-included flat, round halos that do not turn with the heads of figures.

In late medieval wooden panel painting, before paint was applied the wood was
prepared with several layers of - Answer-Gesso

The Arena Chapel, site of Giotto's best-preserved work, is located in - Answer-Padua

Who is generally regarded as the last great Italian painter in the Byzantine tradition? -
Answer-Cimabue


Compared with Roman Frescoes and mosaics, Byzantine mosaics are - Answer-more
stylized

Byzantine mosaics were made from small squares and rectangles of stone or glass
known as - Answer-tessare

Which architectural feature characterized centrally-planned churches but was absent
from basilicas? - Answer-Dome

Typology refers primarily to the practice of - Answer-showing how events from an earlier
period prefigured those of a later period.

What term is used to identify the semicircular wall surfaces just below the top of an
arch? - Answer-lunettes

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