1. Where did the term "gothic" originate?

2. What year did the Gothic movement begin? Why can we pinpoint this date?

3. Who was Abbot Sugér?

4. What did Sugér use as the point of attraction for his new church af St. Denis?

5. What were the two main ideas that Suger wished to express in this new church? How did he accomplish this?

6. When these two elements were combined correctly, what did they achieve, according to Sugér, as the epitome of gothic architecture?

7. What were some of the construction innovations that occurred in the rebuilding of St. Denis?

8. What is a flying buttress? What aspects (more than one) of gothic architecture did it enable?

9. Why did gothic builders wish to "de-emphasize" the fact that these cathedrals were made of heavy stone?

10. What was the ideal placement of a medieval cathedral with regard to the rest of the buildings in town?

11. Why do the twin towers of the facade at Chartres look so different?

12. How was stained glass used to further the aims of Abbot Suger? What happens to light as it passes through stained glass? Why is this significant?

13. Which cathedral is 75% stained glass? Which relics are housed there?

14. Which gothic trait is emphasized the most at Amiens Cathedral?

15. Compare the placement of sculpture on the facades of Notre Dame and Reims cathedrals.

16. Describe the "Flamboyant Gothic Style"

17. What are the three primary sources that accounted for the spread of the gothic style?

18. How was the English version of the gothic different from the French?

19. What was the il-de-France?

20. Howw did the proximity of the Gothic cathedrals to one another affect the development of the Gothic style?

21. What is the perpendicular style?

22. Who were the Cistercians? How was their version of the gothioc style different from others?

23. Describe English Gothic fan vaulting, as seen in the Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey.

24. What is the height relationship of the roof of the nave and side aisles in a hallenkirche (hall church?)

25. Describe the appearance of Milan Cathedral.

26. Describe Florence's Palazzo Vecchio as an example of secular gothic architecture.

27. What are some architectural elements that are first seen during the ggothic period?

28. Why is Durham cathedral considered a "transitional church"? What gothic architechtural element was first seen here?

1. Compare the concepts of organization between Romanesque and Gothic sculpture.

2. Where is most sculpture located at a gothiccathedral?

3. How do jamb figures from the west portal at Chartres exemplify gothic concepts of spirituality with regard to physical appearance?

4. What is Mariology and why did it gain in popularity in the gothic period?

5. What are some of the differences in the images of the Annunciation & Visitation at Reims Cathedral?

6. What are some of the attributes of the high gothic or "elegant style"? Give an example.

7. What does the relief carving of the Signs of the Zodiac from the west façade at Reims have in common with the Bayeux Tapestry?

8. Describe the tomb of the English Knight of the Crusades.

9. What is pathos?

10. What does "polychromed" mean?

11. What is the significance of the polychromed sculptures of Ekkehard and Uta from the church at Naumburg?

12. What is a piéta?

13. Describe the German gothic attributes of the Roettgen Piéta. What was the purpose of rendering the subject in this way?

14. What is significant about the scale and placement of the Crucifixion from the choir screen at Naumburg?

15. What are some of the attributes of the "International Gothic Style"?

16. Who was Claus Sluter?

17. Why did Moses have "horns" on the "Moses Well" by Sluter?

18. Why would classicism have a more emphatic presence in Italian works like Nicola Pisano's sculptures?

19. How is the Equestrian Statue of Can Grande della Scala similar to ancient Roman equestrian portraits? How is it different from other sculptures of knights, like the tomb of the Knight of the Crusades?

20. What are some of the elements of the International Gothic style as seen in Lorenzo Ghiberti's - The Sacrifice of Isaac, from the doors of the baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence?

1. How were the aims of Abbot Suger met in the employment of stained glass?
2. How were the pieces of glass in a stained glass window held together?
3. What is a signature, or donor window?
4. How were the pieces of glass arranged so that they would make a picture?
5. What were the two main functions of stained glass?
6. Who is Vasari?
7. Who is recorded as the first great artist in modern art history?
8. What is chrysography?
9. What is isochromatism?
10. Describe Cimabue 's Madonna Enthroned (Santa Trinita Madonna) - What new innovations are found in this work? What about it is till painted in the "Greek Style"?
11. Who was Duccio? Describe his "Annunciation of the Death of the Virgin"
12. Describe the general painting technique of Giotto in his Scrovegni Chapel.
13. What scene is located above the doorway in the Scrovegni Chapel? Why is this appropriate?
14. Why are there numerous scratches on Giotto's depiction of Hell?
15. What evidence is there that Giotto was exposed to classical Roman art?
16. In Ambroggio Lorenzetti's fresco of Good City Government in the Commune of Sienna, what does he depict as the results of good government?
17. Describe the two reactions of the public to the Bubonic Plague as depicted in Francesco Traini's The Triumph of Death.
18. What is "grisaille"?
19. Describe the general attributes of the International Gothic Style. Be able to identify those attributes in a paintuing.
20. What is the other name for the so-called "use of glare"?
21. Be able to identify attributes of the International Gothic style in a calendar page from the Tres Riches Heures by the Limbourg Brothers.
22. Why did the International Gothic Style come about?
23. What elements of the International Gothic Style are evident in Gentile de Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi?