Chat with AIExam 11: Gothic Art
Contrast the two Virgin and Child Enthroned paintings by Cimabue and Giotto.What are their similarities and differences? Which artist was more important to the future of painting,and why?
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• Giotto was much more influential on future artists and paintings because of his narrative and pictorial style.
• In both paintings, Mary takes up the center of the composition and presents the figure of baby Jesus.
• Mary is surrounded by angels in both paintings, but the angels are stacked vertically in Cimabue’s version.
• Giotto’s painting is more realistic in terms of perspective and modeling of the figures, whose plainly draped, bulky bodies inhabit real space.
• Giotto’s Mary is still much larger, following the hieratic scale.
Discuss the composition,movement,and technique of Nicola Pisano's baptistery pulpit relief sculpture,Annunciation,Nativity,and Adoration of the Shepherds.
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• The Virgin reclines in the middle of the composition after having given birth to Jesus.
• The Annunciation scene is in the upper left corner.
• The panel is in low and high relief.
• Implied motion is created by the groupings of the figures, but Mary, the largest figure, always attracts the viewer’s attention.
Describe the style and the significance of the two-page opening with Psalm 1 from the Windmill Psalter from the thirteenth century.
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• Ambiguity and contradiction marked early medieval British manuscripts.
• There are many puns in the text.
• The pages are colorful with gold leaf on vellum.
• The figures seem to float in space and the hieratic scale was applied.
• Images stimulated the user’s contemplation of the inner meanings of the text’s familiar messages.
Which of the following is the pose that was a stylistic signature of the Gothic period?
(30) English needlework was well known outside England by the name
(45) Which of the following is the name for a new type of church that developed in the thirteenth century in Germanic lands?
(41) Which of the following is the very large round window above the entrance to a Gothic church?
(37) In manuscripts during the Gothic age,illuminators used columns of medallions and colors,both of which were derived from
(39) Which is the real subject of the ivory box showing the attack on the Castle of Love?
(41) At this time,Italian painters working in tempera paint most often mixed powdered pigments with water,a touch of glue,and
(30) In architecture,what are the vertical sculptural elements on both sides of an opening called?
(42) Which conveys the idea that the scene of the Annunciation in Jean Pucelle's Petites Heures of Jeanne d'Evreux is a vision?
(37) List and describe the architectural elements that combined to make the Gothic style and describe the overall effect that was achieved.
(34) At Reims Cathedral,what technique permitted the creation of even more expansive walls of glass?
(36) Which of the following was made possible by combining structural devices in Gothic churches?
(31) Where were the two important centers of Italian Gothic painting located?
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