Exam #1 Study Guide
Exam #1 will be held on Tuesday, September 21 and will cover Chadwick's Chapters 1 – 4 and Slatkin's Chapters 1 – 9
Click here for a printable version of this study guide.
| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
|||
| Artist | Title | Date |
Thumbnail Image |
| Venus of Willendorf | c. 30,000 - 25,000 BCE |  |
|
| The Battle of Hastings from the Bayeux Tapestry | c. 1086 |  |
|
| Hildegard of Bingen | Scivias (illus. 15 on page 51) | 1142-52 |  |
| The Syon Cope | Late 13th/ early 14th century |  |
|
| Christine de Pizan | Opening page of the Book of the City of Ladies. | 1405 |  |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | The Chess Game | 1555 |  |
| Lavinia Teerling | Elizabeth I when Princess | c. 1559 |  |
| Sofonisba Anguissola | Self-Portrait | 1561 |  |
| Lavinia Fontana | Noli Me Tangere | 1581 |  |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | Susanna and the Elders | 1610 |  |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | Judith Decapitating Holofernes | c. 1618 |  |
| Elisabetta Sirani | Portia Wounding Her Thigh | 1664 |  |
|
Key Terms Know the definition of the following terms. |
||
| Allegory | Flowerpiece |
Patriarchy |
| Apprentice | Guild |
Protestant |
| Baroque | Humanism |
Reformation |
| Caravaggisti | Illuminated Manuscript |
Renaissance |
| Chiaroscuro | Italian Renaissance |
Still-life |
| Convent | Linear Perspective |
Scivias |
| Counter Reformation | Male gaze |
Tempera |
| Court painter | Northern Renaissance |
Tenebrism |
| Embroidery | Oil paint |
Vanitas |
| Eurocentricism | Opus Anglicanum |
Virtuosa |
| People Know the contributions, and the significance of those contributions, each of the following people made to women's art history. |
||
Caravaggio |
Christine de Pizan |
Linda Nochlin |
| Questions to Consider |
What motto are the ancient Greeks described as living by? What information does this convey about women’s place in Greek society? |
| For what reasons did a medieval woman join a convent? |
| What does the Bayeux Tapestry commemorate? |
| When women were able to make art in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, what kinds of works did they produce? What social circumstances often allowed women entry into a professional artistic career? |
| What is the Renaissance ideal of beauty and what artist/s helped to form it? |
| During the Renaissance, it became popular for husbands to have portraits painted of their wives in a distinctive manner. How were these wives customarily portrayed? What does this tradition say about the woman's place in Renaissance society? |
| Why are women largely absent from the art history of the Renaissance in Florence? |
| What influence did the Reformation have on the subjects considered by Northern Renaissance artists? |
| What are the differences between Italian and Northern Renaissance art? |
| What influence/ significance did the city of Bologna have to women's art history? |
| Who were the Biblical heroines Susanna and Judith? What are their stories? How does Artemisia Gentileschi depart from tradition in her depictions of these women? |
| What attributes does the allegory of painting have? |