Humanities Spring Semester Exam

 The chief purpose of the stained-glass programs in all Gothic cathedrals was to tell the stories of

the Bible.

 In a gothic church, the flying buttress was traditionally built against an exterior wall to provide

support for more windows and brace it against strong winds.

 The figure of Saint Theodore found on the jamb of Chartres’ south transept portal stands in a

contrapposto position.

 The Gothic church at Sainte-Chapelle features the highest ratio of glass to stone.

 Ambrogio Lorenzetti is credited with painting the fresco known as the Allegory of Good

Government.

 By the twelfth century, Florence was the center of textile production in the Western world and

played a central role in European trade markets.

 According to an old story, one day Cimabue discovered a talented shepherd boy by the name of

Giotto di Bondone and tutored him in the art of painting. The pupil soon surpassed the teacher.

 Simone Martini is credited with painting the Masetà (Virgin and Child), which once hung in the

council chamber of Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico.

 Filippo Brunelleschi produced the winning design for the dome of Florence Cathedral.

 Brunelleschi’s investigation of optics in Arab science also contributed to his understanding,

particularly Alhazen’s Perspectiva, which integrated the classical works of:

 Euclid

 Ptolemy

 Galen

 In Masaccio’s The Tribute Money, the Apostle Peter appears three times:

 Christ tells St. Peter to Catch a fish

 St. Peter catching a fish in the Sea of Galilee

 St. Peter paying the tax collector

 Humanists in Lorenzo’s court would have recognized Venus, in Botticelli’s Primavera as an

allegorical figure representing the highest moral qualities.

 Leonardo de Vinci’s The Last Supper is located on the north wall of the refectory of the

Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.

 After being elected pope, Julius II commissioned architect Donato Barmante to renovate the

Vatican Palace and to serve as chief architect to replace Saint Peter’s Basilica with a new church.

 The characteristics that contributed to the making of the Tempietto are:

 It’s classical reference

 It’s incorporation of original classical Roman columns into its architectural scheme

 The mathematical orderliness of its parts

 Throughout the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo includes the della Rovene heraldic

symbols of oak and acorn to symbolize the patronage of Pope Julius II.

 Aristotle and Plato are the central figures in Raphael’s School of Athens.

 Many scholars consider Robert Campin the Master of Flémalle and, therefore, the creator of the

Mérode Altarpiece.

 Hieronymus Bosch created the Garden of Earthly Delights.

 The Isenheim Altarpiece was created by Matthias Grünewald.

 Albrecht Dürer created The Large Turf, a watercolor depicting the minutest details of nature.

 Hans Holbein the Younger painted a portrait of England’s King Henry VIII dressed in the clothes

he wore when he married Anne of Cleves.

 The Mérode Altarpiece is a three-part work, or triptych.

 The altarpiece’s patrons are depicted in the left panel of the Mérode Altarpiece.

 The reflection Jan van Eyck, the artist, can be seen in the mirror at the back of the room

depicted in the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami.

 The term braghettoni was assigned to those who painted draperies over the “offensive” areas of

the nude figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment.

 El Greco painted the Resurrection, which includes distinct mannerist qualities and is decorous to

the extent that draperies carefully conceal all inappropriate nudity.

 Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio) painted The Calling of Saint Matthew for the Contarelli Chapel

in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.

 Artemisia Gentileschi painted five separate versions of the biblical story of Judith and Holofernes

and was admitted to the Florentine Academy of Design.

 The View of Haarlem from the Dunes of Overveen is considered a “landscape” painting.

 Jan Steen was particularly successful with genre scenes, including The Dancing Couple.

 Peter Paul Rubens painted The Arrival and Reception of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles.

 Nicolas Poussin painted Arcadian Shepherds.

 Eugene Delacroix served as a model for one of the figures featured in Theodore Gericault’s The

Raft of the “Medusa”.

 Claude Monet painted Impression: Sunrise, which played a significant role on “giving

Impressionism its name.

 August Renoir “preferred to paint the crowd” and created Luncheon of the Boating Party.

 Georges Seurat depended on a pointillist style to paint a Sunday on La Grand Jatte, which

depicts a crowd of Parisians enjoying an island in the Seine River.

 Vincent van Gogh utilized a technique known as impasto to create Night Café.

 Pablo Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon, which became notorious “as an assault on the

idea of painting as it had always been understood.

 Cubism was born out of collaboration between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

 Ballet Positions

 First Position – heels touching, feet forming a straight line.

 Second Position – heels wide apart, feet forming a straight line.

 Third Position – one foot in front of the other with heel against the instep

 Fourth Position – feet apart, one in front of the other, heels in line

 Fifth Position – one foot in front of the other with the heel against the joint of the big toe