HUM2210 Study Guide – Flashcards
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The main task of Christian missionaries in England was to
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transfer the people's allegiance from their king to God.
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Although the first three Crusades were political and religious failures, they succeeded in
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stimulating Western trade with the East.
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The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy was a popular pilgrimage destination, because it contained the
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relics of a martyred child who refused to worship pagan gods.
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The monsters in Beowulf seem to be metaphors for
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fate and the destructive forces of nature.
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What architectural feature especially distinguishes a Romanesque church?
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barrel vaults
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Pope Urban II presented the Crusades as
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a Holy War.
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The Song of Roland describes
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Charlemagne's defeat of the Saracen Muslims.
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Which literary work describes a scene similar to the Sutton Hoo discovery?
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Beowulf
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Sutton Hoo's purse cover is decorated with
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animal imagery.
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Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the first Holy Roman Emperor for
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Christianizing the people of his vast empire.
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It is evident that the Sutton Hoo burial ceremony was not Christian, because
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it included cremation.
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Why was courtly love poetry written in the common language of everyday life instead of Latin?
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A greater number of people would be able to enjoy it.
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Romanesque churches had ambulatories that skirted the nave
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to allow pilgrims to pass through the church without disturbing the monks.
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In the Song of Roland, Roland's fate is brought on by his
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sense of pride.
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All of the following were motivations for the First Crusade EXCEPT
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creating a homeland for Jews.
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The Celtic Christian Church differed from Roman Christianity in
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the roles it allowed women to play.
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The medieval Franks differed from other Germanic tribes in that they
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were Catholic.
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The space created by Romanesque churches' barrel vaults had the effect of
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raising churchgoers' eyes, directing their thoughts toward heaven.
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Romanesque churches' portals were of special importance, because they
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defined the boundary between secular and sacred space.
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Benedictine monks at Cluny introduced
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choral music.
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It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely over a half century earlier, the city had witnessed
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as much as four fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death.
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Michelangelo's Moses has horns due to
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a mistranslation of the Bible from Hebrew to Latin.
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Why did Lorenzo de' Medici prefer frottole sung in Italian, not Greek or Latin?
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Italian, he felt, was the most beautiful of languages for music.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by
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using foreshortening.
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Why was Michelangelo's David not placed on the Florence Cathedral's facade as was originally planned?
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It could not be lifted there due to its size.
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Piero Della Francesca painted Federigo de Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, in profile because
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Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose.
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The Medici were the most powerful family in Florence from 1418 to 1494, because they
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Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose.
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Dufay's Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6, 4, 2, and 3 units per breve to
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mirror the proportions of Solomon's Temple and the Florence Cathedral.
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All of the following are desired of Baldassare Castiglione's l'uomo universale EXCEPT
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charity to the less fortunate.
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Ca' d'Oro in Venice differs from the Medici palace in Florence in that it prioritizes the
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The celebration of personal wealth and social status
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The most influential of the Renaissance women patrons was
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Isabella d'Este
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Michelangelo's Laurentian Library steps create the visual effect of a
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A cascading waterfall
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Villa La Rotunda is considered by many to be Andrea Palladio's masterpiece because its
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its design is perfectly symmetrical
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In his Pietà, Michelangelo presents Mary as young and beautiful instead of middle-aged to
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To make her a timeless image of purity and chastity
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In architecture, Renaissance Venetians favored the
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Gothic Style
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Almost all of Madalena Casulana's known musical works are
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in the form of the madrigal
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Michelangelo placed the Separation of Light from Darkness at the far end of the Sistine Chapel over the altar, because it
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To symbolize the viewers' distance from creation's goodness and truth
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The people were eager to buy the indulgences that Julius II sold to finance the St. Peter's project, because they wanted to
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They wanted to shorten their stay in purgatory.
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In Titian's Sacred and Profane Love, sacred love is represented by
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The nude woman
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Many Northerners were predisposed to finding moral implications in decorative art to
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to justify owning it.
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Why was mid-sixteenth-century Geneva known as "a paradise for women"?
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Geneva men who beat their wives were severely punished.
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Why did many Northern European artists turn to painting portraits and landscapes?
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The market for religious art was diminishing.
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In his concept of "predestination," John Calvin meant that
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God ordains salvation for certain people at birth
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In his In Praise of Folly, Erasmus attacks Church officials for
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selling pardons and indulgences
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The Roman Catholic Church condemned François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel for
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attacking medieval theology's dogmas and sacraments.
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In retaliation against Protestant simplicity, Roman Catholics increased the elaborateness of their churches to
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make the Protestant churches seem emotionally empty.
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Michel de Montaigne invented the
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personal essay
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In both Melancholia I and Adam and Eve, light represents
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inspiration
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Why did The Nuremberg Chronicle's illustrators not concern themselves with depicting the different cities accurately?
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Most readers had not been to those cities.
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What in Dr. Faustus would become a standard feature of the Elizabethan stage?
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blending of tragic and comedy
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Henry VIII wrote a tract condemning Martin Luther and his religious reforms to
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earn a "Defender of the Faith" title from the pope.
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English families agreed to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587
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in exchange for land.
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Why did Mary I order mass executions of Protestants when she assumed the throne in 1553?
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Like her mother, she was a devout Catholic.
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During Elizabeth's reign, living in London became desirable primarily because of
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higher wages
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Which of the following is NOT one of William Byrd's reasons for people to learn to sing?
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makes people more pleasant
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Hans Holbein painted Thomas More with beard stubble and sagging skin because he wanted to
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To emphasize More's tireless service to the King.
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Italian sonnets differ from English sonnets in
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rhyme scheme
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Why did drama become so popular during the Elizabethan period?
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The middle and upper classes had more leisure time.
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Publication of what work directly inspired sacred music during the Elizabethan age?
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The First Book of Common Prayer
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In the skull of The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein uses
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anamorphic projection.
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in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors, the skull between the two ambassadors represents
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the fate that awaits us all.
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Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus turns to black magic out of
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dissatisfaction with traditional scholarship.
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England sought to establish a colonial foothold in the Americas to
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counter the powerful Hispanic Catholic presence there.
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Hamlet is the most desired role and the most often performed character in the history of the English stage because of
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His openness and complexities.
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Why was portraiture so popular in Tudor England?
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Portraits show the humanist emphasis on individualism.
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Henry VIII broke away from Rome and started his own Church of England to
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annul his marriage to Katharine of Aragon.
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Which Elizabethan writer used the English sonnet form so successfully that it has been given his name?
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William Shakespeare
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In The Ambassadors, the lute with the broken string probably symbolizes the
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break between the Protestants and the Catholics.
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Why after August 8, 1588, could Elizabeth I claim English supremacy in world affairs?
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The English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada.
