Humanities Chap 7

Both Siena and Florence are located

Why were Siena's guilds able to rise to such levels of power?

Florence's wealth based largely on

By the end of the fourteenth century, why had Florence become an important banking city?

Who in Florence was eligible to serve in the government?

Giotto's Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels is more naturalistic than earlier paintings, owing to the

In the Arena Chapel frescoes, Giotto deliberately abandons Byzantine balance and symmetry to

Buon fresco has the advantage of

Dante Alighieri composed his Divine Comedy in the vernacular to

In the Inferno, Dante places Judas, Brutus, and Cassius in the lowest level of his hell, because they

The ten storytellers in Boccaccio's Decameron leave Florence for a country estate to

In the Decameron, Boccaccio introduces into Western literature the literary convention of

Petrarch perfected the literary form of

Some people refer to the Canterbury Tales as an "estates satire" because it

Why did Christine de Pizan become the first female professional writer in European history?

Why were England and France fighting in the Hundred Years' War?

The main charge for which Joan of Arc was tried and executed was

According to the chapter text, a positive effect of the bubonic plague was that

The word "Renaissance" means

Lorenzo Ghiberti's winning design for the doors of the Florence Baptistery differs from Filippo Brunelleschi's in that the

Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by

The first to master the principle of scientific perspective was

In-Depth Study Question: How did Filippo Brunelleschi construct his dome without temporary wooden scaffolding?

Dufay's Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6, 4, 2, and 3 units per breve to

Masaccio places the vanishing point in The Tribute Money behind Christ's head to

Donatello's David holds the distinction of being the first

Donatello depicts David as a young adolescent

The Medici were the most powerful family in Florence from 1418 to 1494, because they

Cosimo de' Medici founded Florence's Platonic Academy to

The humanists in Lorenzo's court have viewed Venus in Botticelli's Primavera as

According to Pico della Mirandola in the Oration on the Dignity of Man, humans are "the most fortunate of living things," because of their great gift of

Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper fresco is unique for its

In Mona Lisa, Leonardo achieved the sfumato effect by

Michelangelo represented David before, not after, his triumph over Goliath primarily to

Why was Michelangelo's David not placed on the Florence Cathedral's facade as was originally planned?

Why did Medici supporters hurl stones at Michelangelo's David as it was moved through the streets?

In-Depth Study Question: Composed polyponic music for the Sistine Chapel.

In-Depth Study Question: His works include one of the earliest masses, La Messe De Notre Dame.

n-Depth Study Question: Last castrato to sing in the Papal C

In-Depth Study Question: Associated with the beginning of the construction of the Sistine Chapel that was named after him.