TOPICS TO REVIEW FOR TEST FOUR

HUMANITIES 251

JASON SWEDENE

Please use these review materials as a guide. Do not consider them exhaustive of all the material likely to show up on the test.
 
 

Gothic Style

Definition of Gothic

Comparisons with Romanesque

St. Denis

Suger

Suger’s words about stained glass windows 

Chartres Cathedral- sculpture, interior, exterior, architecture, stained glass

Thomas Aquinas

Describe the purpose of the Five Ways

Describe how Aquinas ushered in a humanistic period in the Church

Peter Abelard

Scholasticism

Number theory: what were the significant numbers?

Triforium gallery, defn of

Polyphony

Monophony

Gothic Dualism

Some questions:

  1. What was the first Church in the Gothic Style? Where was it located? Does it still exist?
  2. Who was Suger and what were his views on what a Church should be?
  3. How did the scholastic philosophers believe God could be approached?
  4. What were the disparities in Gothic life that Fleming calls Gothic Dualism?
  5. Describe the history, building plan, and surviving structure of Chartres Cathedral.
  6. What architectural features separate the Gothic from the Romanesque?
  7. What is the role of Mary at Chartres? Describe her as portrayed in sculpture and scholastic writing.
Late Medieval Styles

Salisbury Cathedral

Haddon Hall

Book of Hours: Month of January

Canterbury Tales

Wife of Bath’s Tale

Ekkehard and Uta

Bamberg Rider

Italian Gothic

St. Francis of Assisi

Life and artistic portrayals of…

Canticle of the Sun: subject matter of

Fresco, defn of

Spire, defn of

Giotto

Nicola and Giovanni Pisano

Sienese Style: Duccio, Simone Martini

Florentine Style: Cimabue

Dante’s Divine Comedy

The Black Death

Artistic reactions to

Ideas: naturalism, nominalism, humanitarianism, classicism’s survival

Some Questions:

  1. Describe the naturalistic materialism of St. Francis of Assisi and his denial of wealth/comforts materialism. What Gothic works of art serve to illustrate these views of Francis?
  2. In what ways was Italian Gothic different from French Gothic and why do scholars think the Italians went in their own direction?
  3. How do you make a fresco?
  4. In what ways did Giotto use geometrical patterns in his frescos?
  5. Compare and contrast the pictorials of Mary the mother of Jesus
  6. What are the Pisanos famous for?
  7. In what ways did the Black Death influence European art and society?
  8. How did the late medieval period’s ideas anticipate the coming Renaissance?