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Artists and Works

Artists and Works

This activity contains 23 questions.

	The various Germanic peoples who were settled in the former Roman territories often worked in an artistic manner known as the __________ style.   animal barbarian Celto-Germanic

	The Sutton Hoo purse lid is decorated with intricate _____________ , whose designs come from wide-ranging sources.   cloisonne enamel tile enamel glass enamel

	An early-seventh-century burial mound, excavated in the English region of East Anglia at a site called _____________, concealed a hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasures.   Hiberno-Saxon Sutton Hoo Gummersmark

	In the Chi Rho Iota page of the Book of Kells, the Greek letters create an irregularly shaped form that resembles a cluster of _________.   Latin characters gold and enamel brooches insects

	In the Chi Rho Iota page of the Book of Kells, the cat-and-mice scene signals __________.   the triumph of good over evil the triumph of evil over good the old Celtic love of animals

	As Christianity spread through the islands, Hiberno-Saxon scribes adapted _____________ styles for large, lavishly decorated gospel books.   pagan Islamic Byzantine

	To proclaim the glory of the new empire Charlemagne had created, architects, painters, and sculptors turned to the two former Western imperial capitals, Rome and __________, for inspiration.   Nîmes Constantinople Ravenna

	The inspiration for Charlemagne's palace chapel at Aachen was __________.   Sant'Apollinare in Classe San Vitale in Ravenna Saint Peter's in Rome

	___________ developed a general plan for the construction of monasteries; the plan survives in the library of the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland.   Saint Benedict of Nursia Abbot Haito of Reichenau Abbot Dominicus

	The style of the figure of Christ on the outer cover of the Lindau Gospels (figure 10-9) suggests ___________ influence.   Hiberno-Saxon a classical Viking

	Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim, besides being a cleric and a great patron of sculpture, was also an artist, specifically a skilled __________.   manuscript illuminator icon painter goldsmith

	The bronze doors that Bishop Bernward had cast for the Church of St. Michael at Hildesheim are _________.   more than 16 feet tall more than 40 feet high less than 7 feet tall

	The bronze doors of the Church of St. Michael's at Hildesheim have scenes from the Old Testament on the left side and scenes from the New Testament on the right side. In each pair of scenes, the Old Testament event can be interpreted __________.   as a prefiguration of the New Testament event as a completely independent scene, unrelated to the New Testament scene next to it as something refuted by the New Testament scene

	The artist of the presentation page of the Hitda Gospels (figure 10-14) arranged the architectural lines of the convent in the background to __________.   frame the figures and draw attention to the transaction between the figures be barely visible and therefore not detract from the figures in the foreground make the magnificent convent the principle subject of the scene

	The nave of the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe has ___________ covered with painted Old Testament scenes.   rib vaults groin vaults a tunnel-like barrel vault

	The artists who painted at Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe had seen paintings by Byzantine, Carolingian, or __________ artists.   Hiberno-Saxon Persian Early Christian

	The artist of the apse painting from San Clemente took a Byzantine model but turned facial features and draperies into __________.   elegant patterns fully three-dimensional forms that remind one of the wall paintings at Roman Pompeii something that looks much more like Chinese painting

	The Last Judgment scene at Autun's Saint-Lazare appears __________.   on the typanum on the trumeau at the base of the lantern

	The tympanum at Saint-Lazare, Autun, was designed and carved by __________.   Lazarus Gislebertus the San Clemente Master

	The sculptor of the column capital, The Magi Asleep, used __________.   a single vantage point to show the scene two vantage points to show the scene six vantage points to show the scene

	Recent research suggests that the embroiderers of the Bayeux Tapestry were __________.   children women people without fingers

	Between 1093 and 1133, the Durham builders developed a __________ that was carried to the Norman homeland in France.   style of architectural sculptural decoration style of mosaic decoration system of vaulting

	A product of the logic so characteristic of the Normans, the design of the facade of Saint-Étienne __________, an idea that would be adopted by Gothic builders.   reflects the plan and the elevation of the church itself makes the height of the church seem much smaller than it really is cleverly hides the plan and elevation of the church that lies behind the facade

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