GUIDE 1
STUDY FOR HUMANITIES 201 FINAL EXAM:
Chapter 6:
Factors in the growth and persecution of Christianity
gospel
basilica
edict of Milan
Paul the apostle
Early Christian music
Constantine
Early Christian symbols and art
Early Christian architecture
Gospel of Matthew: Sermon on the Mount
central teachings of Jesus
Christs role in Hebrew law and history
Matthews audience
inner vs. outer
passage identification
Confessions: St. Augustine
Augustine
role of the will
views on: evil; man; fiction; sin; desire; things of the world
pear-tree episode
garden conversion
Monica
passage identification
Chapter 7:
Augustines contributions to the development of Christianity
Byzantium/Constantinople
Constantine
Justinian
Theodora
Hagia Sophia
pendentive
Ravenna
mosaic
tesserae
2
Byzantine art: characteristics
central plan
basilica plan
Chapter 9:
renascence
monasticism
women & monasticism
St. Benedict
Pope Gregory
monophonic
Gregorian chant/plainsong
syllabic, neumatic, melismatic
tropes
neums
illuminated manuscript
chastity, poverty, obedience, stability
Christianity - role in Middle Ages
label architectural parts on Blackboard handout
Romanesque: characteristics
Church Militant
feudalism: characteristics, reasons for rise of; positions
Crusades
Charlemagne: contributions
Alcuin
Chapter 10
Paris as the center
St. Denis
Abbot Suger
Gothic: characteristics
scholasticism
universities: development, characteristics
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Summa Theologica
flying buttress
Maryolatry
Chartres
cathedral symbolism
Bible of the Poor
role of cathedral in Middle Ages
3
parts of cathedral
relics
pilgrimage
4 evangelists & symbols
Guido di Arezzo
solmization
polyphony
organum
Carmina Burana
troubadours, trouveres, minnesingers
motet
Francis of Assisi
stigmata
mendicant orders
Divine Comedy - Dante
Dante
Virgil
Beatrice
terza rima
significance of numbers
Brunetto Latini
Guido da Montefeltro
limbo
contrapasso
Boniface VIII
Paolo & Francesca
figura/typology
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Satan
3 traitors
God
passage identification
Chapter 11:
3 calamaties of 14th c.
International Gothic Style
Giotto
Simone Martini
Limbourg Bros.
4
Ars Nova
mass: 5 parts
Guillaume de Machaut
duomo
perspective: linear & aerial
foreshortening
Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
Chaucer
narrative frame
General Prologue
c&c with Dante
exemplum
Pardoner
Death
attitude toward clergy
Radix malorum est cupiditas
passage identification
Petrarch
Canzoniere
Laura
Petrarchan sonnet
rime sparse
conceits of courtly love
Mt. Ventoux
views on philosophy
role as a humanist
passage identification
Chapter 12:
role of Florence
Medici family: role in society, art
sfumato
chiaroscuro
The Renaissance
humanism
Pico della Mirandola
Dufay
Palestrina
Ockeghem
5
frottola
motet
nationality of Renaissance composers
fresco
Donatello
Brunelleschi
Ghiberti
Botticelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Chapter 13:
High Renaissance
Rome
patronage
Michelangelo
Sistine cappella
Josquin ceiling/chapel
terribilita
a des Prez
imitative polyphony
Raphael
Venetian art
Giorgione
Titian
Tintoretto
Venetian music
Mannerism
The Prince: Machiavelli
fortuna
virtu
prudence
Cesare Borgia
fox & lion
love vs. fear
purpose of the work
passage identification
Music Identification: Tracks 2-18
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COMPREHENSIVE SECTION OF FINAL EXAM:
Broad overviews and understanding of development and continuity of:
various world views (Hebrew, Homeric, Roman, Early Christian, Medieval, Renaissance)
concept of deity
heroes
painting
sculpture
Be able to look both backward and forward from
architecture
classical antiquity to the Renaissance and make
music
connections and identify influences.
Slide Identification:
Number
Title
Artist
Location
6.4
6.6
6.7
6.11
Christ Teaching the Apostles
Good Shepherd
Jonah Sarcophagus
Old St. Peters Basilica
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.12
7.13
7.14
7.16
7.17
7.19
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia (interior)
Galla Placidia
Good Shepherd Lunette
Calling of Peter & Andrew
The Magi
San Vitale
Emperor Justinian & Court
Empress Theodora & Court
Cathedra of Maximian
9.4
9.5
9.9
9.13
9.16
9.17
Reliquary of Charlemagne
4 Evangelists
Chapel of Charlemagne
St. Sernin nave
Jeremiah
Pentecost tympanum
Aachen
Gospel Book
Aachen
Toulouse, France
St. Pierre, Moissac
La Madeleine,
Vezelay
10.6
10.7
10.8
10.10
La St. Chapelle
Notre Dame de Belle Verriere
Life of the Virgin tympanum
Chartres cathedral
Paris
Chartres cathedral
Chartres cathedral
France
Domatilla catacomb
Rome
Rome
Rome
Anthemius & Isidore Constantinople
Constantinople
Ravenna
Galla Placidia
St. Apollinare Nuovo
St. Apollinare Nuovo
Ravenna
San Vitale
San Vitale
Ravenna
7
10.17
St. Francis Preaching to the Birds
Santo Specchio
11.9
11.11
11.13
11.17
11.18
11.19
11.20
11.21
11.22
11.23
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.7
12.8
12.12
12.15
12.16
12.17
12.21
12.22
12.23
12.25
12.26
12.28
12.29
Madonna Enthroned
Lamentation
Annunciation
Well of Moses
February
May
Duomo
Duomo
Palazzo Publico
Doges Palace
Adoration of the Magi
Holy Trinity
Tribute Money
Sacrifice of Isaac
Gates of Paradise
Pazzi Chapel
David
Mary Magdalene
Annunciation
La Primavera
Birth of Venus
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Madonna of the Rocks
Pieta
David
Giotto
Giotto
Martini
Sluter
Limbourg Bros.
Brunelleschi
13.2
13.3
13.4
13.5
13.10
13.11
13.18
13.19
13.20
13.21
13.23
13.24
13.28
Madonna of the Meadow
School of Athens
The Transfiguration
Moses
Creation of Adam
Last Judgment
Le Concert Champetre
Assumption of the Virgin
Venus of Urbino
The Last Supper
Deposition
Madonna of the Long Neck
Perseus
Raphael
Michelangelo
Giorgione
Titian
Tintoretto
Pontormo
Parmigianino
Cellini
Gentile da Fabriano
Masaccio
Masaccio
Ghiberti
Ghiberti
Brunelleschi
Donatello
Fra Angelico
Botticelli
Leonardo
Michelangelo
Material on all handouts: architecture, music, Christian symbolism
Florence
Milan
Siena
Venice
Florence