Chapter 13 (Art in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Italy)
1. Giotto was commissioned by ________ to paint the Arena Chapel in Padua.
a. Enrico Scrovegni
b. the city of Siena
c. the city of Pisa
d. the Visconti
2. Giotto di Bondone’s teacher was _______.
a. Duccio di Buoninsegna
b. Vasari
c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. Cimabue
3. Duccio di Buoninsegna’s Madonna Enthroned (13.22) is painted in _______.
a. watercolor
b. tempera
c. fresco
d. oil
4. The Arena Chapel (13.18) in Padua is also known as the _______, after the patron who
commissioned the project.
a. Scrovegni Chapel
b. Medici Chapel
c. Corsini Chapel
d. Brancacci Chapel
5. The artist Duccio di Buoninsegna came from the city of __________.
a. Venice
b. Pisa
c. Siena
d. Florence
6. In the Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin (13.23), Duccio employs an innovative use
of __________.
a. allegory
b. tempera
c. color
d. architecture
7. In Simone Martini’s Annunciation (13.25), details of the painting are shown in
____________.
a. marble
b. relief
c. red
d. black
8. In Birth of the Virgin (13.26), Pietro Lorenzetti was influenced by ___________in his
modeling of the figures.
a. Duccio
b. Simone Martini
c. Cimabue
d. Giotto
9. The mural Good Government in the City (13.28) was executed in _______.
a. encaustic
b. watercolor
c. fresco
d. oil
10. In The Way of Salvation (13.31) the black and white dogs represent
_____________.
a. the patrons
b. the Florentines
c. the Dominicans
d. the Franciscans
11. In the Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel (13.18) the patron is portrayed _____________.
a. in the Lamentation scene
b. as an angel
c. as one of the members of the crowd
d. offering his chapel to the Virgin
12. The artist Nicola Pisano executed important pulpits in ___________.
a. Pisa
b. Siena
c. Florence
d. Rome
13. The South doors (13.13) of the baptistery of San Giovanni mostly represent
scenes from the life of _____________.
a. St. Sebastian
b. St. John the Baptist
c. St. Stephen
d. St. Christopher
14. Define polyptych.
a. a pulpit
b. a fresco
c. a single paneled work
d. a multipaneled work
15. Define humanism.
a. the study of religious texts and art
b. the study of Gothic artists
c. the study of ancient thought and art
d. the study of Renaissance texts and art