Medieval Period

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Medieval Period

Also known as the Dark Ages, lasting from the 5th to the 15th century, marked by social, economic changes, and advancements in agriculture and medicine.

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Dark Ages

A period of intellectual darkness characterized by the loss of classical learning, flourishing of Christianity, and developments in art, including Pietistic works.

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Metalwork

Adornments made of metal or bronze used to create religious artifacts.

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Paintings

Art forms including iconography, frescoes, and panel paintings like the Ascension of Jesus.

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Embroidery

Decorative fabric created through needle thread or yarn.

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Ceramics

Hand-shaped wheel-turned pottery used for cooking pots, jars, jugs, and pitchers.

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Mosaic

Art form creating images with small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

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Tessera

Individual tile used in creating mosaics.

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Sculptures

Stiff and elongated style of statues prominent in Romanesque art.

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Heraldry

The practice of designing and recording coats of arms and badges.

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A period from the 5th Century to the 15th century
Medieval Period
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The ______ was a period of intellectual darkness due to the lost of classical learning
Dark ages
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It was a time when christianity flourished in europe
Dark ages
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What was lost during the dark ages
Classical learning
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He is an italian scholar and poet who described the
dark ages as a period intellectual darkness
Petrarch
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Art during this (medieval) period also saw many developments known as______
Pietistic
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Ascension of Jesus is what kind of artwork from medieval period
Painting
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Sante Foy is ______kind of artwork from medieval period?
Metal work
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Madonna and child is what kind of artwork from the medieval period?
Panel painting
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Saint lucy giving alms is what kind of artwork from the medieval.?
Fresco
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Saint lucy Was a Christian martyr who died during the___ persecution

Diocletianic

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She is one of the eight women along with the blessed virgin Mary who are commemorated by name in the canon of the mass

Saint Lucy

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This has been a frequent subject in Christian art in a same in theological writings
Ascension of Jesus in Heaven

Other figures, such as Saint ____, have also been separately portrayed as ascending to Heaven
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Opus Anglicanum is an example of?

Emroidery

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[ARTISTS]
He is an italian designer and a key figure in architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi
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Among the three versions of the david statue, he was the only one who used bronze as a medium
Donatello
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He is a renaissance sculptor from florence
Donatello
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He was recognized to be the first modern engineer
Filippo brunelleschi
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He was the patron of catholic artist
Fra Angelico
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he used new realism to define the volume of his artworks and he also put in consideration the linear perspective.
Fra Angelico
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Was a German Benedictine Abess and also a medical writer

Hildegard of Bingen

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The common English name Fra Angelico means the
Angelic friar
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Key epitomised the renaissance man

Leon Battista Alberti

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He is an italian painter and designer of mosaics from florence

Cimabue

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He strained as a goldsmith and sculptor his published an important workshop for sculpture in metal
Lorenzo Ghiberti
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He is an italian humanist, author, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer
Leon Battista Ghiberti
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Cimabue is also known as Cenni di ____ or Cenni di____
Pepo or Pepi
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He is best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the florence baptistery
Lorenzo Ghiberti
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It bronze doors of the florence baptistery is called by Michelangelo the gate of _____

A. Heaven B. Artistry C. Realism D. Paradise

Heaven

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Donatello studied classical _____
A. Painting
B. Realism
C. Sculpture
D. Embroidery
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also known as Saint Lucy or Saint Lucia (Latin
Sancta Lucia), was a Christian martyr
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Medieval is the Period in which ________flourished in Europe.
Christianity
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Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
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He was one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance.
Filippo Brunelleschi
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Filippo Brunelleschi was an Italian designer and a key figure in ________.
architecture
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