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1. Why did Christians rarely use old pagan temples as their new churches?

2. Why did the powerful and influential Pope Gregory encourage decorating churches?

3. What techniques did the "loaves and fishes" artist borrow from Greek artists?

4. How did the development of icons affect Byzantine art?

5. Which two of the Chinese and/or Muslim art pieces shown in the text do you like the most? Why?

6. How did Buddhism affect art and artists?

7. How were Chinese scrolls used?

8. What was the "graceful and elaborate game" Asian artists played?

9. What was "barbarian" art like?

10. Why do you think the page from the Lindisfarne Gospel was included? (Lindisfarne, an intellectual center monastery on the northeastern English coast, was destroyed by Vikings.)

11. What do you think of Charlemagne's Cathedral?

12. How did patronage affect early medieval art?

13. What were some of the purposes artists had when creating religious works?

14. What is the Bayeux Tapestry? (This is really an embroidered work, not a tapestry; the material was already woven and the women who created it sewed thread onto the fabric.)

15. How was the church involved in the daily lives of people?

16. What does the author mean by his frequent use of the term "Church Militant?"

17. What are the major characteristics of Romanesque (Norman) cathedrals?
When were these cathedrals built?

18. What is a tympanum?

19. What do you think of the piece on p. 131?

20. Why do you think the Western (Catholic) church was more "restless" than the Eastern (Orthodox) church?

21. What were the major characteristics of Gothic Cathedrals? When were these cathedrals built?

22. What was the purpose of the flying buttresses?

23. What does "façade" mean?

24. What similarities and differences do you see in a comparison of Aachen (western German, p. 163), Durham (northern England, p. 174), and Amiens (France, p. 187) cathedrals?

25. Which of the above cathedrals do you like most? Why? (The word "cathedral" means a church that houses a bishop's chair (throne); it is the main church of the diocese. Some are churches of arch-bishops, such as England's Canterbury Cathedral and Yorkminster. "Cities" were towns that grew up around cathedrals; they were almost always larger than any towns around them.)

26. What new artistic innovation is seen in The Death of the Virgin?

27. What were illuminations and why do you think they are so interesting to historians today?

28. What happened in the 1200s to art and artists?

29. What are frescos?

30. What is Giotto (pronounced: Ja-tow) so important in the history of western art?

31. What do you see as the major difference in the Entombment of Christ (p. 195) and the Mourning of Christ (p. 204)?

32. How does the statue of Mary and Jesus on p. 210 differ from earlier statues and paintings of the same subjects?

33. What is the author warning us not to do when encountering "small works of precious metal?"

34. What were some medieval symbols included in The Annunciation?

35. Who was Peter Parler?

36. What's your opinion of the de Limbourg brothers' "May" from de Berry's Book of Hours?

37. Why does the author believe "medieval art was really at an end?"