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Visit The Black Death website, and read the links about the path of the plague and its effect on music and art. Summarize these sections.

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Go to the website for The Arena Chapel, and read about fresco cycles and Giotto as a storyteller. Explain fresco cycles, and give your opinion as to whether Giotto was a good or bad storyteller through the way the frescos depict each story.

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Your book notes that Nicola Pisano was probably influenced by ancient Roman sculpture in his creation of the Baptistery pulpit at Pisa (fig. 16-39). In the photo in your book, you will notice that there are standing figures between the tops of the columns and the large relief panels at the top of the pulpit. Here is a detail of one of these figures. How does this detail add credence to the assertion that Nicola was in contact with ancient art? (Hint: the nudity of the figure is one indication; look beyond that fact--what else about the figure suggests an ancient source?)

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