12/2: Exam Review

Minaret: spiral on a mosque

Minbar: pulpit

Gothic S curve: exaggerated contrapposto

Add to what the year is for centuries.

Otoko-e: man’s painting, violent imagery

yosegi-zukuri: woodcarving

Iconometry: precise system of measurements and proportions used in depicting deities

Cathedral: seat of a bishop

Abbey church: monastery

Duomo: Italian word for cathedral

Typanum: sculptures

No barrel vaults in Gothic art and architecture

Usnisha: protruding part of Buddha’s skull

Abbot Suger designed St. Denis.

Giotto is Ciambue’s student.

Ciambue > gold lines/chrysography,

Nicola Pisano: sculptor who works with marble

Central plan: circular or hexagonal

Basilica plan: rectangular

Fresco from Qusayr Amra: built as a retreat, featured icons like dancing women and animals, Islamic, secular

Aniconic: doesn’t depict people or animals, depicts flowers or calligraphy

Chrysography: gold lines used as highlights, Ciambue

Giornata: Italian for day’s work, frescoes

Dome of the Rock > arrival of Islam

Bernaud of Clairvaux didn’t believe in decoration. Churches associated with him are bare-bones.

Book of Hours: small, contained hourly prayers

Grisaille: mostly in grayscale

Great Serpent Mound: aligned with the solstice

Groin vaults have ribs.

The Dome of the Rock is aniconic and has revetments. > Living rock

Reliquary of St. Foy

Unknowns: Identify period, date, artist, and how you know each

Study by looking through the slides.

  1. Otoko-e

    1. Violence

    2. Militarized government

      1. Shogun

    3. Japan

    4. Kamakura era, c. 1250

      1. The Kamakura era was known for otoko-e (man’s art) with its emphasis on war imagery.

      2. This coincided with the rule of the shogunate.

  2. Giotto

    1. Painter in Italy

    2. 14th century: early 1300s

    3. Gold background

    4. No chrysography

      1. Subtle, white highlighting instead

      2. Weighty figures

    5. Interest in depth, perspective, and the natural world

    6. Figures portrayed realistically

  3. Gothic church

    1. Ribbed groin vault

    2. Rose (circle) window with stained glass

    3. 12th century: 1100s

    4. Most Gothic buildings were made in France.

    5. Flying buttresses

  4. Romanesque building

    1. Roman arch

    2. Barrel vault

    3. Thick walls

    4. Small windows

    5. Accommodate new pilgrims