Exam 23: Art of the Middle Ages

The Emperor Justinian I can be linked to which of the following major works of architecture?

The frontispiece of the Liber Scivias (3.42) shows Hildegard of Bingen ________.

The Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, is from this period.

Cimabue's student was ________.

What is the medium used for the depiction of Theodora and Attendants in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy?

All Islamic manuscripts include a page with a portrait of Allah.

The manuscript painting of The Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad on his Steed from a copy of Nizami's Khamsa (3.43) shows Muhammad and the angel Gabriel surrounded by flames. These flames are symbolic rather than literal.

The scribe responsible for making the Lindisfarne Gospels was ________.

The Dura Europos synagogue is from this period.

The actions of Theodora and her assistants in the mosaic depicting them in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy, bear no relation to the religious ceremonies held in the church.

Once a religious building-such as the Dome of the Rock-is built, it is never altered or added to by later generations.

The small pieces of glass that make up mosaics are called ________.

In the sculptures of the tympanum above the west door of the church of St. Trophîme in Arles, France, the artist used hierarchical scale to designate the importance of Christ.

The earliest examples of Christian art have been discovered in ________.

The Dome of the Rock was built on a site sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

If you were to build a cathedral with a huge stained-glass window covering nearly an entire wall, you would use these architectural features to ensure the building's structural stability.

Styles of architecture and painting from the Middle Ages are not at all related to each other.

The floor plan of the Romanesque church of St. Sernin in Toulouse, France, resembles ________.

The process used to create the beaten-silver face of the twelfth-century reliquary of the Head of Saint Alexander (3.44) is called ________.

The Dura Europos synagogue contains ________.