Florence

Question 1

“The Baptistery”

Answer 1

San Giovanni

Question 2

“The Belltower”

Answer 2

Campanile, Giotto 1334 > Pisano>Talenti

Question 3

Space between Cathedral Façade and Baptistery

Answer 3

Paradiso

former cemetary

Question 4

Cassone

Answer 4

a chest or box

Question 5

Filippo Brunelleschi

Answer 5

architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for his development of linear perspective and for engineering the dome of the Florence Cathedral, lost the competition for the baptistry doors, went to rome with donatello for six years, 1403-1409 makes the biggest santa maria del fiore dome EVA. snack bars save lives.

Question 6

Spalliera

Answer 6

“backrest [for a piece of furniture],”

Question 7

Cimabue

Answer 7

mosaics, breaking away from italo byzantine, discovered giotto according to vasari, gold,

Question 8

giotto

Answer 8

first great painter of italian renaissance, discovered drawing goats on a rock, Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, campanile of Florence Cathedral,

Question 9

Battiloro

Answer 9

gold beater works in the painters studio (presses gold leaf very thin)

Question 10

bole

Answer 10

red clay

Question 11

pastiglia

Answer 11

“pastework”, is low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead

Question 12

andrea pisano

Answer 12

goldsmith turned painter, architect, southern doors of the baptistery, hexagonal

Question 13

donatellio

Answer 13

cathedral facade niches,

Question 14

lorenzo ghiberti

Answer 14

trained as goldsmith, #1 bronze sculptor early ren, north & eastern baptistery doors, international gothic style, won over brunalleschi

Question 15

all’antica

Answer 15

inspired by antiquity

Question 16

imago clipeata

Answer 16

circular roman portrait

Question 17

st john

Answer 17

he wears animal skins, baptized jesus, patron saint of florence,

Question 18

antonio Pollaiolo

Answer 18

talian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance. profiles of women, hair. hercules slaying the hydra

Question 19

vernacular tradition

Answer 19

oral visual, low class, not humanities like law and stuff

Question 20

medici

Answer 20

was a political dynasty, banking family , wool guild

Question 21

rilievo schiacciato

Answer 21

scratched relief

Question 22

palazzo

Answer 22

palace, home, or apartment

Question 23

loggia

Answer 23

a gallery or room with one or more open sides

Question 24

leon battista alberti

Answer 24

architect behind palazzo ruchellai

Question 25

Calimala Guild

Answer 25

Wool dyers finishers and merchants

Question 26

Lana Guild

Answer 26

wool merchants and manufacturers. lanaiuoli = textile dyers

Question 27

Seta Guild

Answer 27

silk guild, included bronze and goldsmiths

Question 28

Apothecary Guild

Answer 28

painters

Question 29

Signoria

Answer 29

the government of medieval and renaissance Florence. the Priori, were chosen from the ranks of the guilds of the city: six of them from the major guilds, and two from the minor guilds.

Question 30

Intonaco

Answer 30

the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted.

Question 31

fresco

Answer 31

mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. fresco= fresh

Question 32

Giovanni Milani

Answer 32

merchant who documented statistics of florence -- lots of info about population etc.

Question 33

Black Death

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1348, 40,000 Florentines died in one year, half the population and a third of the market

Question 34

sottoposti

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industry workers, subordinates

Question 35

ciompi revolution

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1378, worker revolution -- marxists say it was the first form of unionization, but we think it was just the sottposti trying to go back to what the guilds once were, looking out for them. halved wool production.

Question 36

Visconti

Answer 36

the milanese lord that tried to take over florence

Question 37

trecento

Answer 37

14th century, 1300s

Question 38

quatrocento

Answer 38

15th century 1400s

Question 39

quadrefoil

Answer 39

featured on the doors of the baptistry