Study Guide for Test One, ART216
Review Artstor Im age Sets 1 - 2, the web site study guides, your notes, and key pages in
your text for im ages and ideas.
im ages from chapter 14 and Artstor unit 1:
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Duccio: the Maesta altarpiece, Siena cathedral, 1308-11 (central panel from front and
details from the reverse side)
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Martini: the Annunciation altarpiece, 1338
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Pietro Lorenzetti: the Birth of the Virgin altarpiece, 1342
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Giotto: Enthroned Madonna, c. 1310
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Cim abue: Entrhoned Madonna, c. 1280
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Berlinghieri: St. Francis panel, 1235
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(anonym ous): St. Clare, c. 1283
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Duccio: Enthroned Madonna and Child, c. 1285
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Nicola Pisano: pulpit for the Siena cathedral, 1265-8
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Giotto: the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy, m ade for Enrico Scrovegni, 1305-10 [overall
view and the Last Judgem ent, details from the wall panels]
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Am brogio Lorenzetti: The Allegories and Effects of Good Governm ent and Bad
Governm ent, for the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, 1338-9 (overall views)
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Cavallini: detail from the Last Judgem ent fresco, ca. 1293
im ages from chapter 15 and Artstor unit 2:
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Sluter: Well of Moses, ca. 1400
Limbourg brothers: illumination from the Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry, 141316
Hubert and Jan van Eyck: Ghent altarpiece, 1432 (closed position and open position)
Rogier van der Weyden: Deposition (Descent from the Cross), 1435
Rogier van der Weyden: Last Judgement altarpiece, 1444-8
Hugo van der Goes: Portinari altarpiece, 1475
Robert Campin: Merode altarpiece, 1425-8
Hans Memling: portraits of Tommaso and Maria Portinari, 1470
Jan van Eyck: the Arnolfini Double Portrait, 1434
Rogier van der Weyden: Portrait of a Lady, 1460
Jan van Eyck: Man in a Red Turban, 1433
Petrus Christus: St. Eligius in his Goldsmith’s Shop, 1449
Melchior Broederlam: Dijon Altarpiece, 1395
Reading:
In chapter 14, emphasize: 401 - 405; box on page 406 (on patronage); 407 - 418 (on
Giotto, and art in Siena);
chapter 15, up to p. 444
web site review units
course syllabus
Concepts and terminology:
patronage
social and historical factors leading to the Renaissance
factors which influence the variety of styles we call Renaissance art
the visual sources of Renaissance art
predominant media and types of artwork
differences between northern and Italian art in the early Renaissance and reasons for these
differences
What
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to expect:
about 20 identifications, slightly less than one minute each
names of all the art works will be on the test sheet
about 10 short answer questions, calling for a sentence in some cases, or a short
phrase in others
possible: a list of characteristics of art and social context for northern Europe and
Italy, asking you to check off which one is correct
We haven’t examined a wide range of individual artists or styles at this point. This means
that the most important emphasis for this test will be the differences between northern
European and Italian art during the years leading to and in the beginning of the
Renaissance. Which factors do you think are the most useful in explaining these differences
and why? How would you describe/explain these differences?
Another very important area to focus on is the “big picture” question about the ways in
which art reflect the social-historical context (how are the values, politics, etc. of a
particular time period and culture reflected in artistic media, subject matter and styles)?