HUM 111 Week 7 Quiz

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Question 1

Why do the blues in medieval Italian frescoes often fade more than other colors?                                    

Question 2

Only 22 of Chaucer's planned 120 Canterbury Tales exist because he                                 

Question 3

Why does Lorenzetti's Allegory of Good Government contain only scenes of ordinary city life, with no obvious symbols of government?                        

Question 4

Why would a figure like Plato be consigned to Limbo in Dante's scheme of the after world?                               

Question 5

To what world historical event does Boccaccio allude in the following line from his Decameron: "Gathering in those houses where no one had been ill and living was more comfortable, they shut themselves in."                                

Question 6

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                           

Question 7

The nudity of Michelangelo's David suggests                            

Question 8

In Mona Lisa, Leonardo achieved the sfumato effect by                                 

Question 9

Ghiberti's determination to create realistic figures in a realistic space was a rejection of                         

Question 10

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