Early Christian & Byzantium
A book, or a group of manuscript pages (folios), sewn together along one side and placed in a binding
What is a Codex?
This style of cathedral architecture evolved from Romanesque architecture
What is Gothic architecture?
A vanishing point is integral to this kind of perspective
What is linear perspective?
Michelangelo's statue of David references this mythology from the Old Testament
What is the story of David and Goliath?
THIS massive statue of me was a stand-in for the power I held over my empire, in THIS city in 306-330 CE.
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What is the Colossal Portrait of Constantine, in Rome?
I am the architectural term for the main aisle down a cathedral
What is the nave?
An educational system that emphasized the study of the liberal arts, chiefly grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy; and that revived interest in classical rhetoric, Greco-Roman literature, mythology, history, and art and architecture
What is Humanism?
This self-portrait prominently features the date it was created, and the artist's inscription.
(provide artist, title, date)
What is Albrect Dürer's Self Portrait, 1500?
Painted panels depicting portraits of Christ, angels, apostles, other saints, or narrative scenes from their lives; used with THIS method of wax painting
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What are Icons, made with the encaustic medium?
I am a cathedral with many jamb statues on my facade.
What is the Reims Cathedral, in Reims, France?
This painting creates a feeling of intense proximity, as if you, the viewer, stand as part of the circle of worshippers in the spatial logic of the painting
What is Giotto's Lamentation?
THIS oil painting technique, lending a "smoked" looking line to, was employed in THIS famous painting
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What is Sfumato, used on the Mona Lisa?
This encaustic painting produced in Sinai, Egypt, depicted these two Christian Saints.
Who are Saints Theodore, and George?
I am the third level, letting the light of the Lord in, in THIS style of architecture.
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What is the clerestory in Gothic architecture?
This revolutionary fresco of the Holy Trinity was painted in THIS city, by THIS artist, in THIS year.
What is Florence, Masaccio, and 1427?
THIS famous religious fresco is terribly deteriorated because THIS artist used THIS technique
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What is The Last Supper, Leonardo DaVinci, and fresco a secco?
Hagia Sophia was built in THIS city with three names, and has transformed to accommodate these three uses up to today.
(2 part answer, with 3 sub-parts each)
What is Byzantium, Constantinople, and Istanbul?; and a Christian church, a mosque (under the Ottomans) and presently a museum?
These parts make up the Quadripartite ribbed Vault
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What are transverse arches, diagonal ribs, and masonry webbing?
Botticelli's Birth of Venus was inspired by THIS style of Greco-Roman statuary, identified by THIS pose
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What is Venus Pudica, the traditionally nude figure covering her breasts with one hand and pubic area with the other
a dramatic rendering of single-direction light; demonstrated in THIS painting by Caravaggio
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Tenebrism, Calling of St. Matthew