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Civ Arts Test 2
Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
10/28/2010

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Term
Back Ground of Gothic Period
Definition

- Focus on hope, not fear (Second Coming)

- Elaboration

- Population Grows

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Courtly Love
Definition

- Put women on a pedestal

- Women put in charge if men went off on crusades

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Cult of the Virgin Mary
Definition

Considered "Queen of Heaven"

Churches named after Saints, Cathedrals named after Mary.

Term

Chartres Cathedral

(Interior)

Definition

- Possesses the most original stain glass.

- Powerpoint for illiterate congregation. 

- Mary: Queen of heaven. Jesus on her lap

Term

Chartres Cathedral

(Exterior)

Definition

- Sculpture: Contains early Gothic and high Gothic. 

- Flying Buttresses

Term
Early/High Gothic
Definition

Early: Simpler.

High: Elaborate. Hints of contrapossto 

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Perotinus (Perotin)
Definition
Cathedral official in Notre-dame. Musical, educated. Wrote Viderunt Omnes (multi-layered, contains contrast)
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The Calamitous 14th Century
Definition
Crops failing, Hundred Years' War, The Black Death.
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