Do You Know These Ancient Christian Art Flashcards

Do you know these ancient Christian arts? Some different painters and sculptors have prepared amazing works of art in history, and some of them are still existent today in buildings. Take a look at these flashcards and get to see just how much you know about them all. All the best, and be sure to keep an eye out for more flashcards like this.

35 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Question 1
Unknown Umbrian artist, San Damiano Crucifix, twelfth century. San Damiano, Assisi (tempera on panel)

Christus triumphans
Question 2
Cimabue, Crucifix, 1280s, commissioned by the Franciscans of Santa Croce, Florence (tempera on panel).

Christus patiens
Question 3
Master Cosmatus, Sancta Sanctorum, 1278, commissioned by Nicholas III. Lateran Palace, Rome

porphyry

“There is not a holier place in the entire world”
Question 4
Giotto, Stefaneschi Altarpiece, early 14th century, commissioned by Jacopo Stefaneschi. Tempera on panel, orig. Old St. Peter’s, Rome (Pinacoteca, Vatican)

Babylonian
Captivity
Question 5
Answer 5
Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi, begun 1228, commissioned by the Franciscans with the support of the papacy

Tau
nave
apse
Question 6
Isaac Master, Esau Before Isaac, 1290s (?), commissioned by the Franciscans. Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
Question 7
Assisi Master, The Crib at Greccio, late 13th to early 14th c., commissioned by the Franciscans. Fresco, Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
Question 8
Giotto, frescoes of the Arena Chapel, ca.1303-05, commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni. Padua, Italy
Question 9
Giotto, Expulsion of Joachim, ca.1303-05, commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni. Fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-98), Golden Legend

apocrypha
Question 10
Giotto, Kiss of Judas, ca.1303-05, commissioned by Enrico Scrovegni. Fresco, Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy

Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230-98), Golden Legend

apocrypha
Question 11
Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence, ca. 1059-1150
Arte del Calimala
(Wool Merchant’s Guild)
Opera di San Giovanni
(building works of San Giovanni)

verde di Prato
Question 12
Arnolfo di Cambio, Palazzo della Signoria (Palazzo Vecchio), begun 1298, commissioned by the Florentine government, Florence
Question 13
Cimabue, Enthroned Madonna and Child, 1280s, Santa Trinità, Florence. Tempera on panel, 11’7”x7’4”

Question 14
Duccio, Enthroned Madonna and Child (Rucellai), 1285, commissioned by the Confraternity of the Laudesi, Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Tempera on panel, 14’9”x9’6”
Question 15
Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna and Child, ca. 1310-15, Ognissanti Church, Florence. Tempera on panel, 10’8”x6’8”