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Name: Class: Date: Chapter 14 Late Medieval Italy Powered by Cognero Page 1 Multiple Choice 1.Where in Italy did an admiration for classical art first reappear?

• The Avignon papacy
• The Florentine Academy
• The monasteries of Pisa
• The court of Frederick II

2.What devastating natural disaster occurred in Europe during the 1340s?

• Mad cow disease
• Insect infestation of linen plants
• Flooding of Venice and Sicily
• Bubonic plague

3.Which of the following cities was considered the rightful capital of the Roman Catholic Church?

• Avignon
• Paris
• Aachen
• Rome

4.The frontality, stiff poses, and lack of modeling in Berlinghieri's Saint Francis Altarpiece reveal his training in which tradition?

• Classical
• Medieval
• Byzantine
• Anglo-Hibernian

5.Which city was at its height of political and economic power when it employed the talents of the sculptor Nicola Pisano?

• Florence
• Venice
• Ferrara
• Pisa

6.Which of the following features of the pulpit for the baptistery of Pisa Cathedral is a medieval element?

• Densely packed figural panels
• Rectangular relief panels
• Trefoil arches
• Volumetric figures

7.In contrast to his father, Giovanni Pisano worked in a style that originated in which tradition?

• Maniera greca
• Classical antiquity
• French Gothic art
• Carolingian

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• Who was the leading Roman painter at the end of the 13th century?
• Duccio di Buoninsegna
• Bonaventura Berlinghieri
• Pietro Cavallini
• Giotto di Bondone

• Which element of Giotto's new style appears in the Madonna Enthroned?
• Slender and fragile figures
• Heavily patterned drapery
• Figures floating in undefined space
• Statuesque figures that cast shadows

• Which preeminent Italian city-state was referred to as "the daughter and creature of Rome"?
• Pisa
• Siena
• Florence
• Padua

• Who was the architect of the cathedral of Florence?
• Giotto di Bondone
• Arnolfo di Cambio
• Pietro Cavallini
• Andrea di Cione

• Which of the following Italian cities was a major shipping power?
• Rome
• Padua
• Siena
• Pisa

• The scenes involving wealth and luxury in the Triumph of Death served as a warning against what?
• Education
• Monastic life
• Poverty
• Lust and greed

• What did the humanist cult of fame emphasize?
• The importance of a superior government
• The importance of creative individuals
• The importance of strong leadership
• The importance of a good university system

• Confraternities, whose members dedicated themselves to strict religious observance, were made up of which group? 2 / 4

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• Papal guards
• Laypeople
• Nuns
• Farmers

• Which artist sought to reconcile the illusion of a weighty, three-dimensional body with the illusion of the space that

contained it?

• Duccio
• Giotto
• Cavallini
• Martini

• Simone Martini's rendition of Gabriel in the Annunciation may have been inspired by which contemporary

phenomenon?

• The solemnity of religious processions
• The emotionalism of mystery plays
• The etiquette of chivalric courts
• The frenetic activity at public trials

• Which artist was instrumental in creating the International Gothic style?
• Ambrogio Lorenzetti
• Pietro Cavallini
• Cimabue
• Simone Martini

• Which monastic orders are known as the mendicant orders, those committed to vows of poverty and austerity?
• Carmelites and Servites
• Franciscans and Dominicans
• Cluniacs and Cistercians
• Benedictines and Carthusians

• The facial types and hairstyles of which artist's figures reveal the influence of classical relief sculpture?
• Giovanni Pisano
• Nicola Pisano
• Berlinghieri
• Pietro Cavallini

• In 1305, the College of Cardinals elected a pope from which of the following countries, leading to the Great Schism?
• Italy
• Poland
• Spain
• France

• The loosely curved folds of the garments in Duccio's Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Maestà) are derived

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• Byzantine
• French Gothic
• Classical
• Visigothic

• Which characteristic of Duccio's figures in the Maestà originates in Byzantine art?
• Expressive movements
• Formality and symmetry
• Elaborate gestures
• Three-dimensionality

• What is the setting for Pietro Lorenzetti's Birth of the Virgin?
• Panoramic sunlit landscape
• Shadowy church interior
• Interior of an upper-class house
• Ancient grotto with fountain

• Which of Giotto's innovations represents a departure from the Italo-Byzantine style?
• Gilded backgrounds
• Figures seen from the back
• Elaborately painted draperies
• Symmetrically arranged figures

• Who commissioned Andrea Pisano's south doors for Florence's Baptistery?
• The guild of bronze workers
• The guild of wool importers
• The Franciscan order
• Enrico Scrovegni

• What is the subject of the frescoes commissioned for the Palazzo Pubblico by the Sienese government?
• The artist's position in society
• Death and the plague
• Feuds among guilds
• The civic life of the Sienese

• Whose work is best characterized by the use of solid volumes resting firmly on a flat stagelike surface?
• Francesco Traini
• Simone Martini
• Giotto di Bondone
• Nicola Pisano

• Which of the following was a Roman fresco painter who is now seen as a pioneering figure in the birth of Renaissance

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• Martini
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