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Art decisions made by

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Church

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Romanesque vs. Gothic faith

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Romanesque had blind, Gothic had logic

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gradual move

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toward humanism

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Humanism

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focus on accomplishments of mankind

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Faith accompanied by

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Intellectualism/skepticism

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visual arts fundamentally showed

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religious fervor

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year 1000

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church wrongly predicts end of the world. people question church’s idea that pleasure is sinful and begin to search for it

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church’s doctrine of salvation

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reduced to a formula

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scholasticism

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product of university, clarify doctrines with logic and reason/reduce to formula

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quadvirium

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arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music (math)

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trivium

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rhetoric, grammar, logic

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reduced to formulas also

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architecture, painting, sculpture, music

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music part of

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mathematics

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worship became

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empty formalism–systematized doctrines

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scholasticism approved of what corruption

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sacraments valid, even if giver was immoral

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result of corrupt clergy and church

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people lost confidence in arts

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Crusades

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exposure to luxury of other cultures, spices and adventure

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3 saints

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loved Mary, admired Jesus, feared God

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courtly love

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poetic love caused by Mary

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church locations

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were in monasteries; now in towns

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Cathedrals were two things

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worship and public centers

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who had the wealth

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church and businessmen

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influence of Gothic art revealed

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subjects, forms, SYMBOLS

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Gothic symbols

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permeated churches. cross floor plan, light of the world in stained glass. 3 aisles and portals.

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Gothic apostle symbols
Matthew man Mark lion Luke ox John eagle
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symbols in paintings and music
1 God, dual nature, trinity, 4 gospels, 5 wounds, 6 days, 7 deadly sins
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light represented
person of Jesus
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Gothic cathedral characterized by
light and height
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cathedrals began
in France by wealthy businessmen
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Gothic used to be known as
vulgar and barbaric
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arches changes
Romanesque was rounded an inelastic; Gothic was pointed and went high
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flying buttresses
transferred outward thrust to piers outside walls
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delicate balance of cathedrals
one buttress goes, thing collapses
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why could they fit stain glass
slender piers
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result of buttresses and piers
removed thick walls
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artists
unknown
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Abbot Suger
financed building of cathedrals from veneration of relics
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4 outstanding cathedrals
Reims, Chartres, Notre Dame, Amiens
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King's College
perpendicular
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Decorated
more ornate carving
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salisbury
Early English
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Perpendicular
long vert lines
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early englisih
plain style
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stained glass characteristsics
not detailed, let in light, didactic, decorations
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trademarks
donors expressed Gothic spirit
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The quality of painting was equal to that of sculpture in
Italy
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secular music groups
Minnesingers--Germany Trouveres--N. France Troubadors--S. France
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During the Gothic period, secular songs
a. Were great in their quantity.
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In Giotto's Life of Christ, the expression of grief
c. Is similar on each face.
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The Alleluia by Perotin is an example of
Polyphony
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The structure of a musical composition during the Gothic period
Followed strict rules
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The influence of humanism can be seen in the area of music
c. With composers' interest in assigning their names to their works.
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Sculpted figures of the Gothic period
c. Had natural countenances and personalities.
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In polyphonic music, instruments
d. Doubled or substituted for the vocal lines.
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During the Gothic period, sculpted bodies
c. Were elongated.
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Monody
a. Could be accompanied by the harp or lute.
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Movement and plasticity in Gothic sculpture was achieved
b. Through the draperies.
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symbols
: Lilies. → Virginity., Dove → The Holy Ghost., Olive branch. → Peace.
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During the Gothic period, music of greater complexity was made possible by
c. The use of notation.
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During the Gothic period, painting was a minor art
In the north
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In music of the Gothic period, cadences required
c. Perfect intervals.
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An innovation in music during the Gothic period was
a. The use of harmony.
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The most famous painter of the Gothic period was
Giotto
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During the Gothic period, sculpted male and female forms
d. Were gender neutral.
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Giotto's paintings are characterized by
a. Humanism and individuality.
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Laudas
Were songs with a sacred text, though nonliturgical.
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When music symbolized the Trinity
d. It had to be in triple meter.
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During the Gothic period, sculpture
a. Became independent.
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The purpose or function of sculpture in the Gothic period was
Didactic
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Sculpture of the Gothic period
b. Shows no perspective.
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Monody
c. Had a single melodic line.
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The influence of Scholasticism on sculpture in the Gothic period is evident
a. In the minutiae.
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The dactyl rhythm consists of
d. Long, short, short.
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During the Gothic period, a favorite theme of the secular songs was
b. Love.
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The most frequently sculpted subject of the Gothic period was
Mary
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During the Gothic period, the composition of the elements in a painting
a. Was dictated by the church.
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Organum
a. Had a cantus firmus with one or more additional melodic lines.

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