Visual and Style Analysis

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On your CD, create a study set consisting of Duccio's Virgin and Child in Majesty and Giotto's Virgin and Child Enthroned. Compare and contrast the two, paying special attention to depictions of space and solidity of forms.

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Study in your text, figure 16-7 from Chartres Cathedral with figure 16-23 from Reims Cathedral. Take note of the dates assigned to each sculpture group. Describe the stylistic changes that you note in the handling of the human figure at Reims over time.

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In your text, view figure 16-1, the image of the ambulatory choir Abbey Church of Saint-Denis. What structural and engineering information does one have to have command of to see this space as revolutionary?

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Study figure 16-25 in your text, Louis IX and Queen Blanche of Castile from the Moralized Bible, and figure 16-14, Chartres north transept, Rose Window. What do the manuscript painting and the stained glass have in common?

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In your text, view figure 16-8, the flying buttresses at Chartres Cathedral. Explain exactly what a buttress is, why these are called "flying," and describe how the builders obviously shaped the buttresses to blend in with the rest of the building.

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