AP Art History Mrs. Wiener Test on Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture: Part I. Multiple choice.

You know what to do. 1. Four roads led to the church of St. James, a saint who was the symbol of Christian resistance to Muslim expansion. A guidebook described the ways to make a pilgrimage to the church, which was located in a) Cordoba b) Aquitaine c) St. Thierry d) Vignory e) Santiago de Compostela 2. Romanesque churches often had roofs of a) timber b) concrete c) ashlar masonry d) Cyclopean masonry e) none of the above 3. A feature that was added to Romanesque churches in order to accommodate pilgrims was a) a crossing tower b) groin vaults c) radiating chapels d) compound piers 4. All of the following were used to increase space to accommodate pilgrims except a) increase of the length of the nave b) increase of the height of the compound piers c) doubling in size of the side aisles d) addition of a transept, ambulatory and radiating chapels 5. Romanesque churches often used vaults. a) a crossing tower b) groin vaults c) radiating chapels d) compound piers in the aisles as buttresses for the barrel

6. When the compound piers reach to the bottom of the transverse bays of a Romanesque church, the piers are said to reach the vaults . a) barrel b) groin c) tribune d) nave elevation e) springing 7. Cluniac monks favored favored . a) luxury; austerity b) austerity; luxury c) music; art d) art; music in their worship, while Cistercian monks

8. There is controversy over whether the first groin vault over a nave was in a) France or Germany b) France or Italy c) Italy or Germany d) Germany or Aachen 9. Wiligelmo is known for his impressive frieze of Cathedral in Modena, Italy. a) the Last Judgement b) Christ as Pantokrator c) Theotokos d) Adam and Eve on the Modena

10. Artists sculpted imaginary beasts and horrific creatures in the early Middle Ages in order to a) scare young children b) represent sin c) scare thieves away from church buildings d) remind people they are purely evil and need not bother entering a church building 11. Holy Roman Emperors were buried in a) St. Etienne at Caen b) SantAmbrogio c) Speyer Cathedral d) St. Sernin

12. From Romanesque times, Italians have been nave elevation of their northern European counterparts. a) less b) more c) neutrally 13.The masterpiece of Norman Romanesque architecture is a. Speyer Cathedral b. St. Sernin c. St. Etienne at Caen d. SantAmbrogio

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14. SantAmbrogio church that most closely resembles a basilica is a) Speyer Cathedral b) St. Sernin c) St. Etienne at Caen d) SantAmbrogio 15. The church that has an harmonious tripartite division both vertically and horizontally on its faade and a sexpartite vault is a) Speyer Cathedral b) St. Sernin c) St. Etienne at Caen d) SantAmbrogio 16. Durham Cathedral has quadrant arches in the tribune that are the predecessors to Gothic . a) three-story nave elevations b) spires c) flying buttresses d) Perpendicular Style 17. Durham Cathedral also shows the English preference for d) modular planning over aesthetic beauty e) slender proportions over modular planning f) barrel vaults over groin vaults g) more massive architecture over a clerestory 18. The use of stone vaults became so popular most probably because a) they provided a more majestic setting than a timber one for the display of relics b) they provided enhanced acoustics for the liturgy c) timber ones were always burning d) people of the time suddenly re-invented the recipe for cement e) all of the above f) a and b only

19. An alternate support system refers to a) the clerestory of a church b) how the nave vault is held aloft c) the triforium d) flying buttresses 20. An extremely popular subject matter for portals in Romanesque times was a) the Creation and Fall of Adam and Eve b) the Assumption of the Virgin c) the Annunciation d) the Last Judgment 21. The prominent semicircular lunette above the doorway, comparable in importance to the triangular pediment of a Greco-Roman temple is called a) the voussoirs b) the archivolt c) the tympanum d) the lintel e) the trumeau 22. One of the most important innovations of the Gothic period was a) the trumeau b) springing c) the pointed arch d) the Perpendicular Style 23. The person who coined the term lux nova was a) St. Denis b) Eleanor of Aquitaine c) King Louis VII d) Abbot Suger 24. wanted to increase the prestige of his/her abbey and of the French monarchy by rebuilding Frances royal church grandly. a) St. Denis b) Eleanor of Aquitaine c) King Louis VII d) Abbot Suger

25. Statues of kings remind worshipers of the ancestry of Christ and of the allegiance they should show to their government. a) Old Testament kings b) New Testament prophets c) Old Testament prophets d) the Merovingian

26. The church with the highest nave elevation is a) Laon b) Paris c) Chartres d) Amiens 27. The church that was rebuilt over the course of the Gothic period was a) Laon b) Paris c) Chartres d) Amiens 28. allowed Gothic architects to eliminate walls and replace them with beautiful stained glass windows that filled Gothic churches with light. a) Rose windows b) Double lancet windows with oculi c) Pointed arches d) Flying buttresses .

29. The band of arcades below the clerestory is called a) the nave arcade b) oculi c) the triforium d) springing e) height and light 30. Instead of contrapposto, Gothic art has a) nothing b) drapery c) the S-curve d) individualized faces