1. In the Middle Ages, the walls and the
ceilings of churches were painted to:
2. Until the 14th century artists painted:
3. Giotto was a master of spatial representation. Which technique did he use
to focus the attention on the face of Christ in "Il compianto su Cristo morto"
above?
a- the head of
Christ is in the center of the painting
b- the Christ figure is
painted in more detail
c- nearly all the characters
are looking towards the Christ figure
(see picture in the answers)
4. This technique marks the beginning of:
6. Giotto is considered as the artist who symbolises the passage between:
7. Giotto shared his work between architecture and painting. Architect of
the Duomo of Florence
and the tower,
he worked for several princes of Europe, but he was born:

(click on the picture to take a tour!)
8. Visit the Chapel Arena in Padoua (above), a magnificent exemple of
frescoes. A "fresco" is a painting:
9. The Byzantyne mosaïcs of the S. Vitale Church in Ravenna which influenced the
way of painting until the 14th century, date from:
10. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti
invented and theorised a technique of perspective to show depth of field on a flat
surface, giving the work a:
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