Exam 2

Question 1

verism

Answer 1

-truthfulness in art

Question 2

PORTRAIT HEAD OF AN ELDER

Answer 2

-ROMAN
-emphasized the true features of a person, even if unflattering
(especially signs of age since elders were revered)
-wisdom and age

Question 3

Pompeii (How was it destroyed/ Why was it preserved

Answer 3

-ROMAN
-Destroyed by the eruption of mount Vesuvius
-Preserved to provide a window onto the history of both art history and archaeology.

Question 4

Key features of House plan of Vettii Brothers

Answer 4

-Atrium (Entrance)
-impluvium (Collect rain water)
-Garden inside (Privacy)
-Frescos on Walls (Trends in domestic decoration) (Forward-looking interior decoration)
-Mosaics on floor

Question 5

Ways the Pantheon Dome was supported

Answer 5

1. Use of concrete
2. Strong walls to support the base of the dome
3. coffers (relieve some of the weight) (Squares)
4. oculus (relieves weight at the weakest point, the center) (Circular Openings)

Question 6

Nave

Answer 6

Central part of church

Question 7

Apse

Answer 7

large semicircular recess in church

Question 8

Transept

Answer 8

(in a cross-shaped church) either of the two parts forming the arms of the cross shape

Question 9

Manuscript

Answer 9

hand made book

Question 10

Interlacing

Answer 10

intertwining knots of
ribbons or serpents; a popular
decorative pattern in the early
medieval art of England, Ireland,
and Scotland

Question 11

Illuminated

Answer 11

When gold is applied to the page of a manuscript

Question 12

St John’s Bible

Answer 12

a modern Bible created
with medieval materials
and techniques

Question 13

Materials of manuscripts:

Answer 13

-Parchment= animal skin scraped very thin (sheep, calf, goats)
-(or vellum=finest quality of parchment)
-ground pigments suspended in egg yolk (tempera)
-ink, applied with feather quill pen
-gold leaf, applied with glue

Question 14

Monastery

Answer 14

a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.

Question 15

scribe

Answer 15

a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.

Question 16

reliquary

Answer 16

container for a relic

Question 17

Relic

Answer 17

part of a saint’s body, or something that has come into contact with a saint or Jesus

Question 18

Barrel vault

Answer 18

an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve

Question 19

Groin vault

Answer 19

A groin vault or groined vault is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults

Question 20

Ribbed vault

Answer 20

A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs

Question 21

Stained glass

Answer 21

pieces of colored glass fused
together with strips of lead;
details painted on

Question 22

How is stained glass made

Answer 22

quartz crystals, sand, and ash
+minerals for color
melted together

Question 23

Buttress

Answer 23

an architectural support attached to a wall

Question 24

Flying buttress

Answer 24

an arch on the exterior of a building that
transfers the weight of the vault to another buttress

Question 25

"Four Tetrarch" Venice

Answer 25

-Late Roman -Four rulers -Porphyry (stone) -harmony -military figures

Question 26

Constantine the Great - colossal head

Answer 26

-Late Roman -Marble -He legalized Christianity and other religions -originally located in the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

Question 27

Old St. peters (Rome)

Answer 27

-Early Christian -site where peter was buried -nave, aspe, Transept

Question 28

Book of kells "CHI RHO IOTA" page

Answer 28

-Early middle ages -First letters of Christ [XPI] -Ink and pigment Vellum -Illuminated manuscript

Question 29

Reliquary of St. Foy

Answer 29

-Romanesque -Made with gold and jewels -contains skull of St. Foy -Foy= Faith, -young women who converted to Christianity and was killed by roman authorities for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods

Question 30

church of saint Foy, France

Answer 30

-Romanesque -Barrel-vaulted have lined with arches -takes the symbolic form of the cross

Question 31

"Last Judgment" tympanum Autun, France

Answer 31

-reminder about the joys of heaven and torments of hell -made people consider their eternal fate

Question 32

"Flight into Egypt"

Answer 32

-pieces of colored glass fused together with strips of lead; details painted on

Question 33

Norte Dame Cathedral

Answer 33

-Gothic -Symbol of theological and worldly power -spiritual power comes from the relic of the tunic of the virgin Mary -stain glass focused on light/geometry -light is symbol for the divine