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Pendantives are found in which church

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Hagia sophia

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Byzantine art is considered very naturalistic

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false

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byzantine is a term that refers to the western roman empire

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false

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What is an example of isocephally

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Justinian bishop and attendants

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icons functioned as decorative objects in houses

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false

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Iconoclasm refers to what

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destruction of images

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What did paul the silentiary say about hagia sophias dome

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It looked as if it were suspended from heaven

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Byzantine churches were mostly centrally planned.

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true

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Madonna refers to

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The Virgin Mary

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Horseshoe arches were an important architectural feature of the

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Mosque at Cordoba

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Which European country contains the best examples of Islamic architecture

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Spain

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The Dome of the Rock is in

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Jerusalem

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A mihrab is

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A niche in a qibla wall

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Which building is built on the spot where Muhammad is believed to have ascended to heaven?

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Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem

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Carolingian Renaissance refers to

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A rebirth of classical ideals under Charlemagne

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Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in

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800

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Charlemagne made which city the capital of his Holy Roman Empire

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Aachen

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A major force in the revival of Classical style in the Early Middle Ages was

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Charlemagne

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An important feature of the Abbey Church of St. Michael at Hildesheim is

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The alternate support system

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The center of the Ottonian empire was in:

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Germany

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An important sixth-century ship burial was found at

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Sutton-Hoo, England

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The most important patrons of the arts during the early medieval period were

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The Clergy

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An important Ottonian church was built at Hildesheim under

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Bishop Bernward

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The purse cover from Sutton-Hoo is a good example of:

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saxon interlace

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Which term means "fear of empty spaces" in Latin and refers to a stylistic convention of covering an entire surface with patterns and figures, leaving virtually no empty spaces

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Horror vacuii

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Which of the following statements best describes the cultural context of Romanesque Europe

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Church floor plans develop to accommodate large crowds of pilgrims, who stimulate economic growth along pilgrimage routes

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The Head Reliquary of St. Alexander

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contained the remains of the Pope Saint

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Architecturally, Pisa Cathedral is most similar in style to

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Early Christian basilicas such as Old St. Peter's

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A ____________ is the area above a Romanesque cathedral door reserved for sculpture that incorporates horror vacuii, reminding the viewer that the subject resembles a heavenly vision

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Tympanum.

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Which statement best describes the overall ambiance of a typical Romanesque church?

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Weighty, heavy, dark, and earthbound

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Pilgrimage wasn't really a factor in the construction of Romanesque basilicas

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false

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Romanesque sculpture can be described as stylized and full of Christian symbolism

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true

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The dates for the Romanesque period are

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11th to early 13th centuries.

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A vault that springs from two walls over a space and is created when two barrel vaults intersect at right angles creating a type of junction or intersection is called a

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Groin vault

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Which architectural features are NOT found in a Romanesque church floor plan

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Flying buttresses and spires

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Romanesque is a term that means Roman and was first coined by the Emperor Charlemagne

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false

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The nave elevation may contain a nave- arcade, tribune gallery, triforium, and clerestory.

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true

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Which exterior architectural element helped distribute the weight of the walls of Gothic churches

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flying buttress

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To whom was Notre Dame de Paris was dedicated?

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virgin mary

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Chartres Cathedral housed which relic?

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the Sacred Tunic of the Virgin Mary

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Which element is characteristically Gothic?

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flying buttress

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Gothic is a word that comes from a reference to the Goths (Visigoths and Ostrigoths) who were barbarian peoples settling in Europe around in the 4th c. AD

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true

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This person revived Platonic ideas (Neo-Platonism) which suggested that looking at and contemplating beautiful objects, sacred images, and architecture, leads one's soul into closer union with the Divine.

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Abbot Suger

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Gothic was a term invented in:

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the Renaissance

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Gothic architecture is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

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dark interiors

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Abbot Suger was inspired by which of the following

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Dionysius the Areopagite

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Which stylistic term refers to the medium and process of applying a thin layer of fresh plaster on an existing plaster surface and then immediately applying color pigments which, upon drying, become a permanent part of the wall surface?

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fresco

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Which image is an example of the maniera greca

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St. Francis Altarpiece

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Maniera Greca refers to art of Ducento or Trecento Italy, which was influenced by the art of the medieval Greeks or Byzantine peoples

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true

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Which artist was considered the truest imitator of nature

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giotto

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Which of the following terms refers to the modeling of light and dark which begins to appear at the beginning of the Trecento (1300s) with artists like Cimabue, Duccio, and Giotto

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italo-byzantine

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Giotto was Cimabue's teacher.

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false

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Duccio was a celebrated Florentine painter

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false

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Northern Renaissance artists were preoccupied with creating monumentality of form.

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false

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Which of the following is an example of a genre scene?

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Ghent alterpiece

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Northern Renaissance art reflects an interest in the world of appearances that was influenced by a growing sense of humanism in the north as well as a new personalizing of the religious experience.

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true

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Which of the following is an example of disguised symbolism

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The Annunciation "Merode" Altarpiece

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Which of the following terms refer to the study of symbolic, often religious, meaning of objects, persons, or events depicted in works of art

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iconography

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Which of the following terms refers to the idea which suggested that looking at and contemplating beautiful objects, sacred images, and architecture, leads one's soul into closer union with the Divine?

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neo-platonism

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Botticelli was influenced by neo-platonism

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true

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Which term refers to the scientifically understood distribution of the weights and balances of the body with corresponding higher or lower hip and shoulder to the weight bearing leg or side?

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controposto

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Which of the following terms refers to the emphasis on education and on expanding knowledge (especially of classical antiquity), the exploration of individual potential and a desire to excel, and a commitment to civic responsibility and moral duty?

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humanism

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Vasari wrote which of the following?

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lives of artists

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Which of the following terms refers to compositions which have a single vanishing point?

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one-point scientific perspective

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Which of the following terms refers to the visual device of making an object appear to recede dramatically into space?

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foreshortening

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One of the distinguishing features of Italian Renaissance art is the use of scientific one-point perspective to create illusionistic spaces.

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true

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In Italy during the fifteenth century, intellectuals and artists increasingly turned their attention to a revival of classical learning and ideals.

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true

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Which of the following terms refers to the lines (imaginary, suggested, and painted or indicated) which can be traced from architectural features, tesselated floors, and other compostional elements converging upon a single vanishing point?

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orthogonals

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