Terms

Art 110, Final

For your reference, here are some (not all) words, proper nouns, places, and other items that you might find in the terms section of the Final Exam, Monday, December 13, 2003, 7:00 pm. Don't forget that the test might also ask you to identify artists and artworks as well.
N.B. The Final Exam in this course is NOT cumulative. However, some terms are used throughout the course.

Early Medieval Art in Europe
Romanesque Art
Gothic Art
Early Renaissance Art in Europe


Early Medieval Art in Europe

Place names
Sutton Hoo, Oseberg, Durrow, Kells,
Aachen, Centula, Saint Gall, Hildesheim
Political figures and Emperors
Theodolinde, Recesswinth, Charlemagne, Otto II, Theophanu, Gero, Otto III
Manuscripts (see p. 486)
illumination, scriptorium, parchment, vellum, colophon,
carpet page, Chi Rho page (or Chi Rho Iota page), interlace, zoomorphic, ribbon style,
Psalter, Gospel Book,
Metalwork
enamel, cloisonne, millefiore
Churches, Monasteries and other Building
horseshoe arch, basilica plan, westwork (Ger. Westwerk), choir, blind arcades,
cloister, refectory, scriptorium,
Religion (Christianity)
Four Evangelists, Psalter, Book of Revelation (or Apocalypse), Benedictine Order, Rule of St. Benedict (R.S.B.), crucifix
Authors
Beatus, Commentary on Book of Revelation.
Concepts
Animal Style, syncretism, "barbarian,"
Vikings, Visigoths, Anglo-Saxons, Carolingian, Ottonian

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Romanesque Art

Places
Fontenay, Conques, Moissac, Pisa, Autun
Architecture
Portal, lintel, tympanum, voussoir, archivolts, jamb figure, trumeau, barrel vault, transverse arch, bay,
Religious subjects and ideas
Last Judgment, Sedes Sapientiae, Pilgrimage Roads
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, "beautiful deformity and deformed beauty",
Gislebertus of Autun (considered artist, perhaps patron)
Art terminology
"law of the frame", reliquary, mandorla,

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Gothic Art

Architecture
Ambulatory, choir, apse, transept, crossing, narthex, aisles
Ribbed vaults, stained glass, pointed arch, flying buttress, rose window
Arcade, Gallery, Triforium, Clerestory,
Sexpartite vault, Quadripartite vault, pinnacle, crocket, spires,
Art terminology
"High Gothic," Rayonnant, Flamboyant, Decorated Style,
triptych, fresco, presepio, Maesta, Dugento, Trecento
Places
Saint-Denis, Chartres, Laon, Paris, Reims, Ely, Pisa, Florence, Assisi, Siena
Theological figures and ideas
Notre Dame, St. Francis,
Liberal Arts: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music
Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Divinity
Historical figures
Abbot Suger, St. Bernard of Clairvaux,
Saint Louis of France (Louis IX), Crusades, Black Death of 1348, Enrico Scrovegni
Artists and Architects:
Jean de Chelles, Pierre de Montreuil, Jean Pucelle, Nicola Pisano, Master of the St. Francis Cycle, Giotto, Duccio, Lorenzetti, Martini

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Early Renaissance Art in Europe

Places
Florence, Mantua,
Historical figures
Philip the Bold, Jean Duke of Berry, Gattamelata (Erasmo da Narni), Federico Gonzaga
Religious and Mythological subjects:
Jacob and Esau, Solomon and Sheba, David, prophets, Abraham and Isaac
Adoration of the Magi, Last Supper, Mary Magdalene,St. Anthony
Architecture
Duomo, oculus, ribs, lantern, Latin cross plan, barrel vaults, coffering,
pietra serena, "Gates of Paradise,"
Art terms, styles
Quattrocento, "renaissance," classicism, humanism
Oil painting, triptych, self-portrait, disguised symbolism,
One-point perspective, engraving (intaglio method), woodcut (relief method)

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