Study Guide for Final Exam

1. Slide identification (name of object, date, period style, original geographic location) covering slides since the last hour exam.

2. Slide comparisons. You will be asked to compare some aspect of form, style or subject matter. The slides may be from any period, BUT if you are prepared to answer all the essay questions, you will probably be prepared to answer the slide ID question.

3. Definition of terms since the last hour exam.

4. Labeling of diagrams or floor plans concerned with Romanesque and Gothic architecture. Note that your textbook has several examples of achitectural dialgrams with terms indicated.

5. Placing works of art or architecture in relative chronological order since the last hour exam; for example, if you have a list of five works, you will need to order them from the oldest to the most recent.

6. Multiple choice or matching information about objects, monuments, people, or periods throughout the semester. If you are prepared to answer all the essay questions, you will probably be prepared to answer the multiple choice or matching questions.

7. Essay discussions. The essay topics will be similar to the following list:

   1. Analyze the differences between Romanesque and High Gothic architecture in France, using specific buildings to illustrate your discussion. Discuss features of the ground plan, the interior, and the exterior of the buildings.

   2. Analyze the sculpture on the tympanum at Autun in terms of its style and iconography, and compare it to the sculpture on the tympanum at the Royal Portal at Chartres.

   3. Compare and contrast the figures and their relationship to space in the Psalter of St. Louis (miniature in your text: Abraham, Sarah, and the Three Strangers), the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux (Annunciation), and the frescoes in the Arena Chapel (Lamentation).

   4. Compare and contrast a French Gothic cathedral with an example of an English and an Italian Gothic building. Identify the key characteristics of French Gothic and compare the distinguishing features of the other two examples. Consider the contrasts in ground plans, interior, and exterior features.

   5. Discuss the differences (style and iconography) in the representations ofthe deities in the examples of Khafre, Hermes and Dionysus, and Christ in Majesty in the apse at San Clemente at Tahull. What is the significance of these differences for the societies that produced them? In other words, why does the depiction of a deity in classical Greece differ from the depiction of a god in the medieval period, etc?

   6. Discuss the relationship between architecture and architectural sculpture in the examples of the caryatids on the Porch of the Maidens at the Erechtheum, the prophet Jeremiah on the trumeau at Moissac, and the Angel of the Annunciation on the jamb at Reims Cathedral.

   7. Name two works of art or architecture associated with each of these persons and explain the significance of the work in the history of art:

      Khafre
      Pericles
      Augustus Caesar
      Constantine
      Justinian
      Charlemagne
      Abbot Suger
      Louis IX of France
      William the Conqueror
      Jeanne d’Evreux

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