FNAR 201 Renaissance through Modern
SPRING 2013
STUDY GUIDE EXAM I

EXAM I STUDY GUIDE
Friday 15 February 2013

For this exam, you will be required to identify images and discuss their artistic and social significance and symbolism. You will have ten slides on the exam and five minutes per slide. Each question will be worth ten points.

By identifying a slide, I am asking that you provide the artist, title, date and period. If the artist is unknown, you must note that on your exam by stating “unknown” or “anonymous.”

I will choose the ten slides from the following list. Each image is listed by its illustration number in your textbook:

14-4 Giovanni Pisano, Annunciation, Nativity, and Adoration of the Shepherds, relief panel on the pulpit of Sant’Andrea, Pistoia, Italy, 1297–1301. Marble, 2 10 3 4 . The French Gothic style had a greater influence on Giovanni Pisano, Nicola’s son. Giovanni arranged his figures loosely and dynamically. They display a nervous agitation, as if moved by spiritual passion
14-8 Giotto (di Bondone), Madonna Enthroned, from the Church of Ognissanti, Florence, Italy, ca. 1310. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, 10 8 6 8 . Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Giotto displaced the Byzantine style in Italian painting and revived the naturalism of classical art. His figures have substance, dimensionality, and bulk and give the illusion that they could throw shadows
14-9- Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation, Arena Chapel (Cappella Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, ca. 1305. Fresco, 6 6 3 – 4 6 3 – 4 . In this fresco painted in several sections, Giotto used the diagonal slope of the rocky landscape to direct the viewer’s attention toward the head of the sculpturesque figure of the dead Christ
14-22-Milan Cathedral, Milan, Italy, begun 1386. Milan Cathedral’s elaborate facade is a confused mixture of Late Gothic pinnacles and tracery and Renaissance