What was scholastic philosophy

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Answer the following questions:

1) Who conceived of the 'new style', or 'modern art' later known as the Gothic style, in architecture?

2) What was Scholastic philosophy and how did it relate to Gothic art and architecture?

3) How did Suger view the light that came through the stained-glass windows? List two ways that he described.

4) How did Abbot Suger make the connection through his church between the temporal and spiritual worlds (between church and state)?

5) Give the names of two books of the Celtic illuminated manuscripts (not the Bible or the Gospels, but the names we use to distinguish where they were made) . In what centuries were they made?

6) List the four evangelists and their beast forms. What is the association with each of the beasts - why are these animals chosen to represent these saints?

7) Describe the carpet page from the Book of Durrow and explain some of the symbolism.

8) The images of the saints on the pages of the Book of Durrow, or the Book of Kells, are often very strange and unnaturalistic. These images can convey something a more naturalistic (or realistic) image cannot. Explain this using information from the manuscript ppt.

9) Compare the Coronation Gospel page of St.Matthew with the Ebbo Gospel of St.Matthew.

10) In one sentence, how would you say the figures in Celtic manuscripts differ from those in Carolingian manuscripts?

11) What is meant by Naturalism that becomes evident in Gothic sculpture?

12) Discuss one of the tympanums of a Romanesque cathedral, or abbey church. Include comments about the design, and iconography. How does it differ from the tympanum of a Gothic cathedral like Chartres?

13) Explain the differences between Romanesque and a Gothic cathedral. In your answer include both architectural and sculptural examples from cathedrals we've looked at.

14) Explain how the Paschal candle is a three-fold symbol.

15) Compare Martini and Memmi's Annunciation (slide 7) with Giotto's annunciation (slide 14), in the Giotto ppt. Be sure to include information from the ppt. as well as your own observations.

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